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Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences
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Book Synopsis Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences by : James Elwick
Download or read book Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences written by James Elwick and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
Book Synopsis Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences by : James Elwick
Download or read book Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences written by James Elwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.
Book Synopsis Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science by : David N. Livingstone
Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.
Book Synopsis Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain by : Mark Bevir
Download or read book Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain written by Mark Bevir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians understood life and society as developing historically in a way that made history central to public culture, it will appeal to those interested in Victorian Britain, historiography, and intellectual history.
Download or read book Richard Owen written by Nicolaas Rupke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas A. Rupke resuscitates Owen’s reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen’s life and work, Rupke’s book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin
Book Synopsis Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 by : Roger Smith
Download or read book Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 written by Roger Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis The Science of History in Victorian Britain by : Ian Hesketh
Download or read book The Science of History in Victorian Britain written by Ian Hesketh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources – monographs, lectures, correspondence – from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
Book Synopsis Historicizing Humans by : Efram Sera-Shriar
Download or read book Historicizing Humans written by Efram Sera-Shriar and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity’s past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.
Download or read book A Male Hysteria written by Edward Beasley and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two centuries"--
Book Synopsis The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871 by : Efram Sera-Shriar
Download or read book The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871 written by Efram Sera-Shriar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian anthropology has been called an 'armchair practice', distinct from the scientific discipline of the 20th century. Sera-Shriar argues that anthropology went through a process of innovation which built on bservational study and that nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of today.
Book Synopsis The British Arboretum by : Paul A Elliott
Download or read book The British Arboretum written by Paul A Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums. These were fostered by a variety of factors: global trade and exploration, popularity of collecting, significance to the British economy and society, developments in science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.
Book Synopsis The Age of Scientific Naturalism by : Michael S Reidy
Download or read book The Age of Scientific Naturalism written by Michael S Reidy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume focus on the way Victorian Physicist John Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and journals and challenge assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.
Book Synopsis The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914 by : Claire L Jones
Download or read book The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914 written by Claire L Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late nineteenth century advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. Drawing on over 400 medical trade catalogues Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism.
Book Synopsis Conceptual Change in Biology by : Alan C. Love
Download or read book Conceptual Change in Biology written by Alan C. Love and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1981-2011" held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in July 2010. The Preface has been written by Ron Amundson. In these papers, philosophers and biologists compare and contrast key concepts in evolutionary developmental biology and their development since the original, seminal Dahlem conference on evolution and development held in Berlin in 1981. Many of the original scientific participants from the 1981 conference are also contributors to this new volume and, in conjunction with other expert biologists and philosophers specializing on these topics, provide an authoritative, comprehensive view on the subject. Taken together, the papers supply novel perspectives on how and why the conceptual landscape has shifted and stabilized in particular ways, yielding insights into the dynamic epistemic changes that have occurred over the past three decades. This volume will appeal to philosophers of biology studying conceptual change, evolutionary developmental biologists focused on comprehending the genesis of their field and evaluating its future directions, and historians of biology examining this period when the intersection of ev olution and development rose again to prominence in biological science.
Book Synopsis Transformations of Lamarckism by : Snait Gissis
Download or read book Transformations of Lamarckism written by Snait Gissis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of Lamarckism--its historical impact and contemporary significance.
Book Synopsis History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences by :
Download or read book History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences by : California Academy of Sciences
Download or read book Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences written by California Academy of Sciences and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
