Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history
Lack of consideration of the complex European scientific scene from the late 18th century to the mid-decades of the 19th century has produced partial and often biased reconstructions of priorities, worries, implicit and explicit philosophical and at times political agendas characterizing the early d...
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| description | Lack of consideration of the complex European scientific scene from the late 18th century to the mid-decades of the 19th century has produced partial and often biased reconstructions of priorities, worries, implicit and explicit philosophical and at times political agendas characterizing the early debates on species. It is the purpose of this paper firstly to critically assess some significant attempts at broadening this historiographic horizon concerning the immediate context to Darwin's intellectual enterprise, and to devote the second part to arguing that a multi-faceted European debate on the transformation of life forms had already occurred in Europe around 1800. Of this debate, contrary to long cherished views, Lamarck's was only one voice, amongst many. Naturalists active in different national contexts elaborated solutions and proposed doctrines that shared several viewpoints, yet clearly stemmed from a variety of disciplinary traditions and problematic contexts. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0c435d80-2714-4e6a-8e4d-be29f63199af2022-03-26T09:33:59ZBefore Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural historyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0c435d80-2714-4e6a-8e4d-be29f63199afHistory of scienceHistoryEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetSpringer2005Corsi, PLack of consideration of the complex European scientific scene from the late 18th century to the mid-decades of the 19th century has produced partial and often biased reconstructions of priorities, worries, implicit and explicit philosophical and at times political agendas characterizing the early debates on species. It is the purpose of this paper firstly to critically assess some significant attempts at broadening this historiographic horizon concerning the immediate context to Darwin's intellectual enterprise, and to devote the second part to arguing that a multi-faceted European debate on the transformation of life forms had already occurred in Europe around 1800. Of this debate, contrary to long cherished views, Lamarck's was only one voice, amongst many. Naturalists active in different national contexts elaborated solutions and proposed doctrines that shared several viewpoints, yet clearly stemmed from a variety of disciplinary traditions and problematic contexts. |
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| title | Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history |
| title_full | Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history |
| title_fullStr | Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history |
| title_full_unstemmed | Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history |
| title_short | Before Darwin: transformist concepts in European natural history |
| title_sort | before darwin transformist concepts in european natural history |
| topic | History of science History |
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