Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences : Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858
by
James Elwick
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
0822966344
ISBN-13
9780822966340
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2020
Print length
244 Pages
Product Classification:
Philosophy of science
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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.
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.
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