The Art of Experimental Natural History

Dana Jalobeanu

The Art of Experimental Natural History

Paru en mai 2015

Zeta Books - Foundations of Modern Thought

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344 pages - 13 × 19 cm
ISBN 978-606-8266-93-0 - mai 2015

Présentation

Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature. He called it « natural and experimental history. » Despite its rather traditional name, Bacon’s natural and experimental history was a new discipline : it comprised new ideas, new practices and new models of collaborative research. This new discipline was, in many ways, a surprisingly successful project. It provided early modern naturalists with tools, methods and models for both investigating nature and writing about their subject. It also offered a set of norms and values for guiding research. And yet, this new discipline was not a science of nature – it was more like an art. This book aims to trace the emergence, evolution and reception of Francis Bacon’s art of experimental natural history.