Thesis ID: CBB001564343

The limits of science: A social, political, and moral agenda for epistemology in 19th-century Germany (1993)

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Anderton, Keith M. (Author)


Harvard University
Galison, Peter


Publication Date: 1993
Edition Details: Advisor: Peter Galison
Physical Details: 563 pp.

Description “Specifically, I have researched the background to, the debate upon, and the aftermath of the physiologist-physicist Emil du Bois-Reymond's 1872 proclamation of `absolute limits to science', as well as its connections to the lives and work of his friend ... Hermann von Helmholtz and his contemporary pathologist-politician Rudolf Virchow.” Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 54 (1994): 4235. Univ. Microfilms order no. 94-12305.


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Authors & Contributors
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich
Boyd, Byron A.
Zwick, Jochen
Wegener, Daan
Virchow, Rudolf
Vidoni, Ferdinando
Concepts
Science
Historiography
Physics
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
Science and culture
Communication technology
Time Periods
19th century
Places
Germany
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