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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
An exploration of the growth of physiology, this book examines the general ideas of each period, ending with a challenging discussion of the limits of physical research on biological order. The bibliography in English follows each chapter and has several hundred citations.
Magie medieine or - to be more exaet - "iatromagie" as an applieation of magie to the medieal treatment of diseases, is defined as the "eonversion of a theory of world based on aeeordanees and sympathies into praetiee", here to the praetiee of healing. It is a very old way of solving the ineom prehensible by an alliance with invisible relations, forees and powers. This alliance is rooted in the magie view of life in which the relations among the phenomena are interpreted not so much by a eause and effeet way of thinking, but rather aeeording to similarities and dissimilarities, sympathy and antipathy. In order to be able to classify the manifold number of most ancient, former and reeent magi...
Um 1800 diskutierte man über Naturkräfte in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Zusammenhängen: Anziehung und Abstoßung, Lebenskräfte und elektrische Ströme, der "Bildungstrieb" und biologische Organismen wurden als Kräfte untersucht, die sich auf „natürliche" Prozesse zurückführen lassen. Literatur, Wissenschaft und Philosophie der deutschsprachigen Romantik von Schelling bis zu Günderrode und Hölderlin arbeiteten sich an Konzepten von Kräften ab, die als dynamisch und in beständiger Tätigkeit begriffen wurden – Kräfte, die auch menschliche Handlungen, soziale Strukturen und kulturelle Entwicklungen einzuschließen schienen. Der Band erkundet Vor- und Darstellungen von Naturkräften in der Romantik an der Schnittstelle von Naturwissenschaft und kulturellen Vorstellungswelten.
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Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has received little attention. Gerald Geison makes an important contribution to our knowledge of this neglected area by investigating the achievements of English physiologists at the Cambridge School from 1870 to 1900. He describes individual scientists, their research, the scientific issues affecting their work, and socio-institutional influences on the group. He pays special attention to the personality and contributions of Michael Foster, founding father of the Cambridge School. Foster's specific research interest was the origin of the rhythmic heartbeat, and the author con...