The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline: 1760–1850 [electronic resource] / edited by Paul Farber.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789400978195
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/8964
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1982.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1982.
Fiziksel Niteleme
212 p. online resource.
Dizi
Studies in the History of Modern Science ; 12
İçindekiler Notu
I Knowledge of Birds in the Eighteenth Century -- II Brisson and Buffon: Ornithology 1760–1780 -- III New Data 1780–1830 -- VI Loci of New Data: Collections 1786–1830 -- V Ornithological Publications: 1780–1800 -- VI Focus on Classification: Ornithology 1800–1820 -- VII The Emergence of a Discipline: Ornithology 1820–1850 -- VIII The Significance of the Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline -- Notes.
Özet, vb.
A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. My attention, however, was soon diverted by the striking difference between the highly literary natural history of Buffon and the duller, but more rigor­ ous, zoology of his successors, and I began to try to understand this transformation of natural history into a set of separate scientific disciplines (geology, botany, ornithology, entomology, ichthyology, etc. ). Historical literature on the emergence of the biological sciences in the early nineteenth century is, unfortunately, scant. ! Indeed the entire issue of the emergence of scientific disciplines in general is poorly documented. A recent collection of articles on the subject states: One reason for this is, of course, that scientific development is a highly com­ plex process. Consequently, there has been a tendency for those engaged in its empirical study to select for close attention one strand or a small number of strands from the complicated web of social and intellectual factors at work. Many historians, for example, have dealt primarily with the internal development of scientific knowledge within given fields of inquiry. Sociologists, in contrast, have tended to concentrate on the social processes associated with the activities of scientists; but at the same time 2 they have largely ignored the intellectual content of science.
Konu
History.
Evolution (Biology).
History.
Evolutionary Theory.
Diğer Yazarlar
Farber, Paul.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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