Experiencing Nature : Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus / edited by Paul H. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall.
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...
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| Other title: | Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus. |
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1997.
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| Series: | University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields ;
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Table of Contents:
- Experiencing Nature in Intellectual Contexts
- The Body Politic before and after the Scientific Revolution
- The Geometrical Kabbalahs of John Dee and Johannes Kepler: The Hebrew Tradition and the Mathematical Study of Nature
- The Theological Foundations of Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Chemistry through Invariant Theory? James Joseph Sylvester's Mathematization of the Atomic Theory
- Experiencing Nature in Social Contexts
- Religion, Science, and the Public Imagination: The Restoration of Order in Early Modern France
- Dancing with Spiders: Tarantism in Early Modern Europe
- Nature and Culture in the Discourses of the Virtuosi of France
- Dionysius Lardner's American Tour: A Case Study in Antebellum American Interest in Science, Technology, and Nature
- Establishing an Historiographical Tradition
- From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors.