Notes on the composition of scientific papers
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TIMOTHY LENOIR, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00. A survey of early nineteenth-century German biology is long overdue, and Lenoir's study of the transition from intuitive Naturphilosophie to the empirical morphology of the Gottingen school is incisive and important. Lenoir counters older prejudices of the sterility of contemporary science, showing the richness of the "teleomechanist" tradition which grew in reaction to Naturphilosophie. He cuts through cruder mechanist/vitalist dichotomies to analyse the changing relationship between embryogenesis, organic unity, and developmental forces. His compass is from the 1790s to 1840s, from Kant's prescriptive unification of teleology and mechanics to Helmholtz's rejection of vitalism. Lenoir details the successive elaborations of the morphological programme by Blumenbach, Kielmeyer, Meckel, von Baer, and Muiller-physiologists who accepted an emergent vital force, a concept clarified in the 1830s by Berzelius's theory of catalysis. He highlights the powerful effect Cuvier's work had on members of this group, how they adapted French palaeobiological discoveries to their teleomechanist paradigm, and how von Baer's new embryology-with its homological correlates-came to provide the unifying theme. In the 1840s, functional morphology was finally stripped of the Lebenskraft or vital force by Muller's students Helmholtz and DuBois-Reymond (for which they were branded "scum" by the loyal Virchow). But in so doing, these new reductionists did prepare the ground for Darwinism. This is a bookish non-social study (an application of Lakatos's formulation of the research programme), and Lenoir keeps close to the original texts, thus providing a useful source of primary information on German science. It is essential for anyone interested in the interaction of functional morphology, embryogenesis, and organic chemistry prior to 1850, and provides a fitting complement to Frederick Gregory's study of the tater period in Scientific materialism in nineteenth-century Germany (1977). Adrian Desmond Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy University College London
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1985