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Hardback. New. Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus ISBN 0792344774 9780792344773 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0792344774, ISBN13: 9780792344773, [publisher: Dordrecht, etc.: Kluwer Academic, 1997.] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Frontispiece, xiii, 307 pp; ads. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Pp. 281-297 = Debus's 'Selected Bibliography.' Among others, the contributors include I.B. Cohen, Robert Richards, and Debus: 'From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey' (pp. 237-280). '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.' ...

ISBN10: 0792344774, ISBN13: 9780792344773, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]
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Springer 1997 1997 ed. Hardcover Used-G in Good jacket Edges worn, corners bumped, chips to jacket, heavy pencil notations in the text.