Negotiating boundaries: Encyclopédie, romanticism, and the construction of science
Abstract Natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been widely debated in the field of the social sciences. This paper explores the social negotiation of boundaries in the Encyclopédie and romantic science. Highlighting the importance of imagination and aesthetics to the scienti...
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Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
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Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702017000300645&lng=en&tlng=en |