Romanticism in science : science in Europe, 1790-1840 / edited by Stefano Poggi and Maurizio Bossi ; with the editorial assistance of Berendina van Straalen.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Dordrecht [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1994.
Description
xv, 245 p. ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 152 [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Wechselwirkung in the life and other sciences : a word, new claims and a concept around 1800 ... and much later / Gerhard H. Müller
    • Geometry and "metaphysics of space" in Gauss and Riemann / Umberto Bottazzini
    • Romanticism versus Enlightenment : Sir Humphry Davy's idea of chemical philosophy / Ferdinando Abbri
    • Lamarck and the birth of biology 1740-1810 / Giulio Barsanti
    • On the origin of romantic biology and its further development at the University of Jena between 1790 and 1850 / Ilse Jahn
    • "Nature is an organized whole" : J. F. Fries's reformulation of Kant's philosophy of organism / Frederick Gregory
    • The anthropological theory of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach / Stefano Fabri Bertoletti
    • Soemmerring, Kant and the organ of the soul / Luigi Marino
    • Neurology and biology in the Romantic Age in Germany : Carus, Burdach, Gall, von Baer / Stefano Poggi.
    • From romantic Naturphilosophie to a theory of scientific method for the medical disciplines / William R. Woodward and Reinhardt Pester
    • Romanticism and Dutch scientists / H. A. M. Snelders
    • The unity of teaching and research / Rudolf Stichweh
    • Linguistics and modern philology in Germany 1800-1840 as 'scientific' subjects and as university disciplines / Hans Helmut Christmann
    • The unity of nature and mind : Gustav Theodor Fechner's non-reductive materialism / Michael Heidelberger.
    ISBN
    079232336X (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    93001728
    OCLC
    28016258
    RCP
    N - O
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