Book ID: CBB000773747

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820--1858 (2007)

unapi

Elwick, James M. (Author)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: x + 233 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the notions of “compound individuality” (the idea of organisms as compounds of smaller independent units) and “bodily oeconomy” as guiding concepts in all branches of biology of the period.


Reviewed By

Review Reynolds, Andrew (2008) Review of "Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820--1858". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 851). unapi

Review Ghiselin, Michael T. (2007) Review of "Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820--1858". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 356). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000773747/

Similar Citations

Book Robinson, Joseph D.; (2001)
Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: Bridging the Gap (1890-1990) (/isis/citation/CBB000102087/)

Chapter Hebblethwaite, Kate; (2007)
Beyond the Visible: Democratic Cells, Unruly Blobs, and the Circle of Life (/isis/citation/CBB001035835/)

Article Ariane Dröscher; (2017)
Regola o caso speciale? Franz Unger (1800-1870) e la scoperta della divisione cellulare (/isis/citation/CBB058289759/)

Book Massimiano Bucchi; Luca Ciancio; Ariane Dröscher; (2015)
L'esperimento della storia. Saggi in onore di Renato G. Mazzolini (/isis/citation/CBB236977309/)

Article Ghesquier, Danièle; (2002)
La centrifugation et la cellule: la déconstruction du protoplasme entre 1880 et 1910 (/isis/citation/CBB000770937/)

Article Brauckmann, Sabine; (2011)
Axes, Planes and Tubes, or the Geometry of Embryogenesis (/isis/citation/CBB001221526/)

Article Jean-Claude Dupont; (2017)
Wilhelm His and Mechanistic Approaches to Development at the time of Entwicklungsmechanik (/isis/citation/CBB711168381/)

Article Raphael Scholl; (2020)
Unwarranted assumptions: Claude Bernard and the growth of the vera causa standard (/isis/citation/CBB697599592/)

Thesis Gass, Gillian Linda; (2006)
Managing Marine Life: Scientific and Practical Work at Two British Marine Stations, 1884--1902 (/isis/citation/CBB001560855/)

Article Eling, Paul; (2013)
Neuroanniversary 2013 (/isis/citation/CBB001320616/)

Article Smith, C. U. M.; (2012)
Philosophy's Loss, Neurology's Gain: The Endeavor of John Hughlings-Jackson (/isis/citation/CBB001201292/)

Book Galperin, Charles; Gilbert, Scott F.; Hoppe, Brigitte; (1999)
Fundamental Changes in Cellular Biology in the 20th Century: Biology of Development, Chemistry and Physics in the Life Sciences (/isis/citation/CBB000700922/)

Authors & Contributors
Dröscher, Ariane
Scholl, Raphael
Chátal, Alexandr
Smith, C. U. M.
Wade, Nicholas J.
Smith, Christopher Upham Murray
Concepts
Biology
Physiology
Embryology
Anatomy
Cellular biology
Neurosciences
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
Germany
Czechoslovakia
London (England)
United States
Netherlands
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment