Article ID: CBB000670196

Introduction: Fragmented Lives (2006)

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Richards, Joan L. (Author)


Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 97
Pages: 302--305


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Focus: Biography in the History of Science
Language: English

Sophia De Morgan's Memoir of Augustus De Morgan highlights the difficulty of creating a unified picture of a scientific life. It also provides a critical perspective from which to view the chronological development of the modern "scientist" from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

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Article Terrall, Mary (2006) Biography as Cultural History of Science. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 306). unapi

Article Porter, Theodore M. (2006) Is the Life of the Scientist a Scientific Unit?. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 314). unapi

Article Nye, Mary Jo (2006) Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means?. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 322). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Richards, Joan L.
Ursula Martin
Donal Murphy
Ciesielska, Danuta
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wilson, Robin J.
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Science in Context
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in Dialectics of Nature
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Kluwer Academic
Edition am Gutenbergplatz Leipzig
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Science and religion
Mathematicians
Logic
Universities and colleges
People
De Morgan, Augustus
Boole, George
Whewell, William
Venn, John
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Walsh, John
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Cracow (Poland)
France
Institutions
London Mathematical Society
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
Cambridge University
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