[PDF] Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences eBook

Author : James Elwick
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981831

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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.

Author : James Elwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 131731476X

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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.

Author : James Elwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317314778

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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.

Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226487261

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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.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107166683

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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.

Author : Nicolaas Rupke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226731782

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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

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1317320441

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From the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in society. This led to a questioning of the principle of free will - if the workings of the human mind could be reduced to purely physiological explanations, then what place was there for human agency and self-improvement? Smith takes an in-depth look at the problem of free will through the prism of different disciplines. Physiology, psychology, philosophy, evolutionary theory, ethics, history and sociology all played a part in the debates that took place. His subtly nuanced navigation through these arguments has much to contribute to our understanding of Victorian and Edwardian science and culture, as well as having relevance to current debates on the role of genes in determining behaviour.

Author : Ian Hesketh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317322967

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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.

Author : Efram Sera-Shriar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1317319877

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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.