The Zoological Work of Petrus Camper, 1722-1789
Author : Robert Paul Willem Visser
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Anatomists
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Author : Robert Paul Willem Visser
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Anatomists
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Author : Miriam Claude Meijer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004456716
After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human species. Material evidence about human diversity reached Petrus Camper, comparative anatomist in the Netherlands, who engaged, among many other interests, in menschkunde. Could only religious doctrine support the belief of human demarcation from animals? Camper resolved the challenges raised by overseas discoveries with his thesis of the facial angle, a theory which succeeding generations distorted and misused in order to justify slavery, racism, antisemitism, and genocide. Thanks to his abundant papers in Dutch archives, Camper's ideas are restored to their original state. Eighteenth-century issues differed from those of other centuries: Did orang-utans talk like humans, walk like humans; even rape humans? What was the skin pigmentation of Adam and Eve? Did the spectrum of human physiognomies around the globe reflect the Fall of Man, the Creator's bounty, or merely bizarre beauty practices? Why did the ideal beauty of the Greeks appear to be the reverse of the Hottentots? The book contains some 50 illustrations, including apes with hiking sticks or tea cups, metamorphoses of living forms, and Apollo or Venus icons which titillated the science of man.
Author : Robert Paul Willem Visser
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Anatomists
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Author : Alexander J. P. Raat
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 9087041519
Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author : Klaas van Berkel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004620230
In the 400 years of its modern history the Netherlands has produced a distinguished array of eminent mathematicians, scientists and medical researchers including many Nobel-prize winners and other internationally recognised figures, from Stevin, Snel, and Huygens in the 17th century to Lorentz, Kammerlingh Onnes, Buys Ballot, De Vries, de Sitter, and Oort in the 19th and 20th centuries. Yet it has often been noted that the history of science in the Netherlands is underepresented in the international literature. The handbook A History of Science in The Netherlands aims to correct this situation by providing a chronological and thematic survey of the field from the 16th century to the present, essays on selected aspects of science in the Netherlands, and reference biographies of about 65 important Dutch scientists. Written by more than 10 experts from Europe and North America, the handbook is the standard English-language reference work for the field.
Author :
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Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Medicine
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Author : William Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1999-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226109404
Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.
Author : John H. Zammito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 022652079X
This book explores how and when biology emerged as a science in Germany. Beginning with the debate about organism between Georg Ernst Stahl and Gottfried Leibniz at the start of the eighteenth century, John Zammito traces the development of a new research program, culminating in 1800, in the formulation of developmental morphology. He shows how over the course of the century, naturalists undertook to transform some domains of natural history into a distinct branch of natural philosophy, which attempted not only to describe but to explain the natural world and became, ultimately, the science of biology.
Author : C.S. Maffioli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9401200114