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This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - 'experiences of nature' - from within an historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable logic of discovery.
A wide variety of extra-scientific factors, deriving from changing intellectual contexts and differing social millieus, play crucial roles in the overall development of scientific thought. These essays represent case studies in a broad range of scientific settings - from sixteenth-century astronomy and medicine, through nineteenth-century biology and mathematics, to the social sciences in the twentieth-century - that show the impact of both social settings and the cross-fertilization of ideas on the formation of science.
Aimed at a general audience interested in the history of science, this book closes with Debus's personal perspective on the development of the field. Audience: This book will appeal especially to historians of science, of chemistry, and of medicine.
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Historiography, Science, Philosophy, Congresses, History, Science, philosophy, Science, historyPeople
Allen G. DebusPlaces
Great Britain, England, FranceTimes
17th century, 18th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Experiencing nature: proceedings of a conference in honor of Allen G. Debus
1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers
in English
0792344774 9780792344773
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.
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