Paul Lawrence Farber is the Oregon State University Distinguished Professor of History of Science and chair of the Department of History at Oregon State University.
Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, natural history also attracts enormous popular interest. In Finding Order in Nature Paul Farber traces the development of the naturalist tradition since the Enlightenment and considers its relationship to other research areas in the life sciences. Written for the general reader and student alike, the volume explores the adventures of early naturalists, the ideas that lay behind classification systems, the development of museums and zoos, and the range of motives that led collectors to collect. Farber also explores the importance of sociocultural contexts, institutional settings, and government funding in the story of this durable discipline. "The quest for insight into the order of nature leads naturalists beyond classification to the creation of general theories that explain the living world. Those naturalists who focus on the order of nature inquire about the ecological relationships among organisms and also among organisms and their surrounding environments. They ask fundamental questions of evolution, about how change actually occurs over short and long periods of time. Many naturalists are drawn, consequently, to deeper philosophical and ethical issues: What is the extent of our ability to understand nature? And, understanding nature, will we be able to preserve it? Naturalists question the meaning of the order they discover and ponder our moral responsibility for it."-from the Introduction
發表於2024-12-22
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整本書不厚,閱讀起來不難,主要是曆史性迴顧與簡單評論。 讀過全書,我更願意將科學中數理化以外的部分稱為新科學,也就是那些最近二三百年迅猛發展、並逐漸被公眾認識、進而影響整個社會的部分。 科學是曆史的,與世俗的結閤激發瞭更多人的熱情,更加穩固瞭自己的根基。 這些...
評分In the second chapter of Genesis we read that “out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man [Adam] to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, t...
評分整本書不厚,閱讀起來不難,主要是曆史性迴顧與簡單評論。 讀過全書,我更願意將科學中數理化以外的部分稱為新科學,也就是那些最近二三百年迅猛發展、並逐漸被公眾認識、進而影響整個社會的部分。 科學是曆史的,與世俗的結閤激發瞭更多人的熱情,更加穩固瞭自己的根基。 這些...
評分整本書不厚,閱讀起來不難,主要是曆史性迴顧與簡單評論。 讀過全書,我更願意將科學中數理化以外的部分稱為新科學,也就是那些最近二三百年迅猛發展、並逐漸被公眾認識、進而影響整個社會的部分。 科學是曆史的,與世俗的結閤激發瞭更多人的熱情,更加穩固瞭自己的根基。 這些...
評分In the second chapter of Genesis we read that “out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man [Adam] to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, t...
圖書標籤: 博物學 生物學 博物 (English) 自然 Farber
Finding Order in Nature 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載