Romanticism in Science: Science in Europe, 1790-1840 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 1993 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. Introduction. Wechselwirkung in the Life and Other Sciences: a Word, New Claims and a Concept around 1800 . . . and much Later; G. H. Muller. Geometry and Metaphysics of Space' in Gauss and Riemann; U. Bottazzini. Romanticism versus Enlightenment: Sir Humphrey Davy's Idea of Chemical Philosophy; F. Abbri. Lamarck and the Birth of Biology 1740--1810; G. Barsanti. On the Origin of Romantic Biology and its Further Development at the University of Jena between 1790 and 1850; I. Jahn. Nature is an Organized Whole': J. F. Fries's Reformulation of Kant's Philosophy of Organism; F. Gregory. The Anthropological Theory of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; S. Fabbri Bertoletti. Sommerring, Kant and the Organ of the Soul; L. Marino. Neurology and Biology in the Romantic Age in Germany: Carus, Burdach, Gall, von Baer; S. Poggi. From Romantic Naturphilosophie to a Theory of Scientific Method for the Medical Disciplines; W. R. Woodward, R. Pester. Romanticism and Dutch Scientists; H. A. M. Snelders. The Unity of Teaching and Research; R. Stichweh. Linguistics and Modern Philology in Germany 1800--1840 as Scientific' Subjects and as University Disciplines; H. H. Christmann. The Unity of Nature and Mind: Gustav Theodor Fechner's Non-Reductive Materialism; M. Heidelberger."