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Experiencing Nature - Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997) Loot Price: R2,889
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Experiencing Nature - Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st...

Experiencing Nature - Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall

Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 58

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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.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 58
Release date: October 2012
First published: 1997
Editors: P. Theerman • Karen Hunger Parshall
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13: 978-9401064545
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
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