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Experiencing Nature

Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Paul H. Theerman

    1. Smithsonian Institution, USA

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  2. Karen Hunger Parshall

    1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 58)

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Experiencing Nature in Intellectual Contexts

    1. The Body Politic before and after the Scientific Revolution

      • I. Bernard Cohen
      Pages 1-41

    2. The Geometrical Kabbalahs of John Dee and Johannes Kepler: The Hebrew Tradition and the Mathematical Study of Nature

      • Michael T. Walton, Phyllis J. Walton
      Pages 43-59

    3. The Theological Foundations of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

      • Robert J. Richards
      Pages 61-79

    4. Chemistry Through Invariant Theory?

      • Karen Hunger Parshall
      Pages 81-111

  4. Establishing an Historiographical Tradition

    1. From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey

      • Allen G. Debus
      Pages 237-280

    2. Select Bibliography

      • Allen G. Debus
      Pages 281-297

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 299-312
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Smithsonian Institution, USA

    Paul H. Theerman

  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    Karen Hunger Parshall

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