Cultures and institutions of natural history: Essays in the history and philosophy of science (2000)
Ghiselin, Michael T. (Editor)
Leviton, Alan Edward (Editor)
California Academy of Sciences
Physical Details: 363 pp., illus.
Language: English
Description This volume consists mainly of papers delivered at two meetings cosponsored by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The first was held in Milan, November 14-16, 1996. The second was held in San Francisco, October 5-7, 1998. First of a series of volumes to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the California Academy of Sciences, 1853-2003. Contents: Ezio Vaccari: The museum and the academy: geology and paleontology in the Academia dei Fisiocritici of Siena during the 18th century. Agnese Visconti: Considerations of certain peculiarities in scientific institutions in Central Europe in the eighteenth century. Michael T. Ghiselin: The founders of morphology as alchemists. Alan E. Leviton; Michele L. Aldrich: India: A case study of natural history in a colonial setting. Maria Margaret Lopes: The museums and the construction of natural sciences in Brazil in the 19th century. Pamela M. Henson: Spencer Baird's dream: A U.S. national museum. Ellis L. Yochelson: Paleontology in Washington DC: A brief history of institutional change or the waxing and waning of two disparate organizations. Kae Takarabe: Samurai at the Smithsonian: First Japanese visitors to a western-style museum in the U.S.; Michele L. Aldrich; Alan E. Leviton: West & East: The California Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution. Barbara Ertter: People, plants, and politics: The development of institution-based botany in California, 1853-1906. Mary Pickard Winsor: Agassiz's notions of a museum: The vision and the myth. Michael T. Ghiselin; Christiane Groeben: A bioeconomic perspective on the organization of the Naples Marine Station. Daniel Becquemont: The institutions of natural history versus Herbert Spencer, 1890-1895. Léo F. Laporte: The awkward embrace. Lidicker, William Z., Jr.: An essay on the history of the biosystematists of the San Francisco Bay area. Giovanni Pinna: Scientific research versus public exhibits: A schizophrenic aspect of natural history museums. Giovanni Pinna: A philosophy for natural history museums. Alessandro Minelli: The ranks and the names of species and higher taxa, or a dangerous inertia of the language of natural history.
Review Endersby, Jim (2002) Review of "Cultures and institutions of natural history: Essays in the history and philosophy of science". Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society (p. 218).
Chapter Henson, Pamela (2000) Spencer Baird's Dream: A U.S. National Museum. In: Cultures and institutions of natural history: Essays in the history and philosophy of science (p. 101).
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