Article ID: CBB001551993

Pourquoi refuser la théorie cellulaire? Le projet d'une anatomie chimique chez Charles Robin (1821--1885) (2015)

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Charles Robin was the main opponent of cell theory in France during the period 1850-1880. My aim here is to understand this opposition in the light of the vast anatomo-physiological system developed by Robin during the second half of the 1840s. This system was based on a chemical and dynamical conception of living matter, and left no significant place for the cellular level. I also show that Robin's explanatory principles were united themselves by a philosophic attitude marked by Comtian positivism. Like Auguste Comte, Robin never abandoned a certain hostility towards what was perceived in France as a direct updating of the principles of German Naturphilosophie. The last part of this study exposes the controversy which set Robin against Rudolf Virchow during the period 1866-1873. I will seize the occasion to put in perspective Robin's legacy, and thus its real influence on the course of French biology

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Authors & Contributors
Sordoni, Valentina
Sybil Gertrude de Clark
Mainz, Vera V.
Matteo Marcheschi
Bottaccioli, Francesco
Oancea, Ana I.
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Chemistry
Science and literature
Philosophy of science
Natural history
Academic disciplines
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
Italy
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Herzog August Bibliothek
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