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Novalis, Ritter and “experiment”: A tradition of “active empiricism” (1998)

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Description On Novalis's notion of “experiment” as reflected in Ritter's work on Galvanism.


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Authors & Contributors
Pera, Marcello
Trumpler, Maria J.
Bernardi, Walter
Pfannkuchen, Antje
Strickland, Stuart Walker
Sleigh, Charlotte
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Études Philosophiques
Publishers
Società Pratese di Storia Patria
Routledge
Princeton University Press
Olschki
Einaudi
New York University
Concepts
Electrophysiology
Human physiology
Romanticism
Science and art
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Aesthetics
People
Galvani, Luigi
Volta, Alessandro
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm
Novalis
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Places
Italy
Germany
France
British Isles
Berlin (Germany)
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