Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian
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centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional career in science in France (M. P. Crosland); German science in the Romantic period (D. M. Knight); science and the German university system, 1790-1850 (W. V. Farrar). Each paper is by an accepted expert on the topic he discusses, so that the book is a collection of authoritative essays, well written and well documented. On the whole it succeeds in its objective of relating the growth of science to national cultures, by the discussion of social, economic, political and religious factors, which influenced the evolution of medicine as well as of science. Institutional developments are also taken into account. Science is, therefore, regarded from the social and institutional angles rather than from its content. Clearly all factors must be inspected when analysing scientific or medical progress. Professor Crosland's book can be strongly recommended as an excellent survey and comparative analysis of an important aspect of the origins of modem science, considered in terms of space and time. For the adequate understanding of the seventeenth century in particular by students of the history of science and of medicine these papers will be required reading.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976