Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792344773)

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.

Author: P. Theerman
ISBN-10: 0792344774
ISBN-13: 9780792344773
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1997
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d