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Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:

Zimmerman, Katharine

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The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...

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Masters Thesis

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fields as historian Richard Bellon has suggested?29 Is it true, as Paul Farber has stated, that
The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:

Koroloff, Rachel

Abstract:

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

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Masters Thesis

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Russia (London: W. Taylor, 1723); John Mottley, A History of the Life of Peter the First, Emperor of