Experiencing Nature. Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus.

First Edition. Frontispiece, xiii, 307 pp; ads. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Pp. 281-297 = Debus's 'Selected Bibliography.' Among others, the contributors include I.B. Cohen, Robert Richards, and Debus: 'From the Sciences to History: A Personal and Intellectual Journey' (pp. 237-280). 'This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - 'experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable logic of discovery. A wide variety of extra-scientific factors, deriving from changing intellectual contexts and differing social millieus, play crucial roles in the overall development of scientific thought. These essays represent case studies in a broad range of scientific settings - from sixteenth-century astronomy and medicine, through nineteenth-century biology and mathematics, to the social sciences in the twentieth-century - that show the impact of both social settings and the cross-fertilization of ideas on the formation of science. Aimed at a general audience interested in the history of science, this book closes with Debus's personal perspective on the development of the field.'.…