This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a 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.
| Serija: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science |
| Leidėjas: | Springer Netherlands |
| Išleidimo metai: | 1997 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 332 |
| ISBN-10: | 0792344774 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780792344773 |
| Formatas: | Knyga kietu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Historiography |
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