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The Gestation of German Biology - Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling (Hardcover)
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The Gestation of German Biology - Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling (Hardcover)
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The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth
century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel
Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after
1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural history
that preceded it, marking the beginnings of modernity. Ernst Mayr,
on the other hand, insisted that even the word "biology" was
unclear in its meaning as late as 1800, and that the field itself
was essentially prospective well into the 1800s. In The Gestation
of German Biology, historian of ideas John Zammito presents a
different version of the emergence of the field, one that takes on
both Foucault and Mayr and emphasizes the scientific progress
throughout the eighteenth century that led to the recognition of
the need for a special science. The embrace of the term biology
around 1800, Zammito shows, was the culmination of a convergence
between natural history and human physiology that led to the
development of comparative physiology and morphology the
foundations of biology. Magisterial in scope, Zammito's book offers
nothing less than a revisionist history of the field, with which
anyone interested in the origins of biology will have to contend.
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