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Title:

Natural order : historical studies of scientific culture / edited by Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin.

Publisher:

Sage Publications,

Copyright Date:

c1979

Description:

255 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Science--History.
Sciences--Histoire.
Wetenschap.
Wetenschapssociologie.

Other Authors:

Barnes, Barry.
Shapin, Steven.

Other Titles:

Scientific culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

pt. 3. Heredity, environment, and the legitimation of social policy / The nervous system and society in the Scottish Enlightenment / Jonathan Harwood. Homo phrenologicus: anthropological perspectives on an historical problem / Steven Shapin -- The power of the body: the early nineteenth century / Roger Cooter -- pt. 2. The rise of naturalism: Creation and credence: the career of theories of the Earth in Britain, 1660-1820 / Roy Porter -- Darwin and social Darwinism: purity and history / Steven Shapin and Barry Barnes -- The reception of a mathematical theory: non-Euclidean geometry in England, 1868-1883 / Joan L. Richards -- Physics and psychics: science, symbolic action, and social control in late Victorian England / Brian Wynne -- pt. 3. The social basis of scientific controversy: Scientific judgment: the biometry-Mendelism controversy / Donald MacKenzie and Barry barnes -- Controversy over classification: a case study from the history of botany / John Dean -- Heredity, environment, and the legitimation of social policy / Jonathan Harwood.

Series:

Sage focus editions

ISBN:

9780803909595 (pbk.)
0803909594 (pbk.)
9780803909588
0803909586

LCCN:

78019650

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)