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The Light of Nature - Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A.C. Crombie (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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The Light of Nature - Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A.C. Crombie (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 110
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This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by
some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its
publication is his seven tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its
contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own
interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on
subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane,
Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology
at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je
sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same
subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing
a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time
he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La boratory,
a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the
his tory and philosophy of science at University College, London.
H. G. Andrewa ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of
insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al., History of Entomology, 1973),
recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they
couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti mulus for
the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid
194Os."
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