Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
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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...






















