Author: BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Botanick Essays
Author: BlairBotanick Essays
Author: Patrick BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Flora Unveiled
Author: Lincoln TaizPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190490268
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
This book focuses on how the the scientific discovery of "plant sex" unfolded due to cultural biases, beliefs, and perceptions about plant reproduction. "Flora Unveiled" is a deep history of perceptions about plant gender and sexuality, from the Paleolithic to the nineteenth century. The evidence suggests that a plants-as-female gender bias both prevented the discovery of two sexes in plants until the late 17th century, and delayed its acceptance for another 150 years.
Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Catalogue of the Scientific Books in the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Guide to the Literature of Botany
Author: Benjamin Daydon JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Kant's Organicism
Author: Jennifer MenschPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627151X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Offsetting a study of Kant's theory of cognition with a mixture of intellectual history and biography, Kant's Organicism offers readers an accessible portrait of Kant's scientific milieu in order to show that his standing interests in natural history and its questions regarding organic generation were critical for the development of his theoretical philosophy. By reading Kant's theoretical work in light of his connection to the life sciences?especially his reflections on the epigenetic theory of formation and genesis?Jennifer Mensch provides a new understanding of much that has been otherwise obscure or misunderstood in it. ?Epigenesis”?a term increasingly used in the late eighteenth century to describe an organic, nonmechanical view of nature's generative capacities?attracted Kant as a model for understanding the origin of reason itself. Mensch shows how this model allowed Kant to conceive of cognition as a self-generated event and thus to approach the history of human reason as if it were an organic species with a natural history of its own. She uncovers Kant's commitment to the model offered by epigenesis in his first major theoretical work, the Critique of Pure Reason, and demonstrates how it informed his concept of the organic, generative role given to the faculty of reason within his system as a whole. In doing so, she offers a fresh approach to Kant's famed first Critique and a new understanding of his epistemological theory.
A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century
Author: Abraham WolfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429596251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Published in 1938: The new volume presents a full and profusely illustrated account of progress made during the eighteenth century in Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Psychology, Demography, Economics, Philosophy, and Technology.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Typographical anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer's press 1699 to 1731. Essays and illustrations
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Author: William Strong