Main Currents of Scientific Thought. A History of the Sciences. S. F. Mason

Isis ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Robert C. Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Thought ◽  
History Of

Materialism. An Outline of the History of Scientific Thought

Books Abroad ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
Carlton W. Berenda ◽  
M. N. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Thought ◽  
History Of

Cosmos: The Universe Translated

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-232
Author(s):  
Alison E. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This chapter is devoted to Humboldt’s last, great work Cosmos. This multi-volume ‘Sketch of a Physical Description of the World’ ranged encyclopaedically from the darkest corners of space to the smallest forms of terrestrial life, describing the larger systems at work in the natural world. But, as British reviewers were swift to query, where was God in Humboldt’s mapping of the universe? Appearing on the market in 1846, just a year after Robert Chambers’ controversial Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Humboldt’s Cosmos unavoidably underwent close scrutiny. Hitherto overlooked correspondence between Humboldt and Edward Sabine shows how the Sabines deliberately reoriented the second volume of the English translation for Longman/Murray explicitly to include references to the ‘Creator’ and thus restore Humboldt’s reputation. The fourth volume of the Longman edition on terrestrial magnetism – Edward Sabine’s specialism – included additions endorsed by Humboldt which made Sabine appear as co-writer alongside the great Prussian scientist, and Cosmos a more obviously ‘English’ product. Otté, who produced the rival translation for Bohn, was initially under pressure herself to generate ‘original’ work that differed from its rival, producing a version of a work that would remain central to scientific thought well up to the end of the nineteenth century.

The Chronology of Galen's Early Career

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Nutton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Psychology And Medicine

The last decade has witnessed a widespread resurgence of interest in Galen of Pergamum that is without parallel since the early seventeenth century. New studies of Galen's concepts of psychology and medicine have examined afresh his position in the development of scientific thought, and historians have begun to realize the wealth of material for the social history of the Antonine Age that he provides. But, despite the earlier labours of Ilberg and Bardong to restore a chronological order to the many tracts that flowed readily from his pen, many of the events of his life still lack the precise dates that would enable even more valuable information to be extracted, especially upon the careers of his friends.

scholarly journals Dr. med. V. Dzerzhinskiy. Clinical observation in the field of neuropathology. Moscow. 1912 V. I.

1912 ◽  
Vol XIX (3) ◽  
pp. 663-664
Author(s):  
A. Favorskii
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Lumbar Puncture ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Short History ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Lower Back ◽  
History Of ◽  
Motor Cells

In view of giving clinical material for the study of various forms of chorea, poliomyelitis and polyoncephalitis, the author used for this purpose the clinical histories of diseases of the Moscow Clinic of Nervous Diseases (director - prof. V. K. Rot). The entire work is divided into 7 chapters and contains in a short form 35 histories of diseases. In each chapter, the literature of the corresponding painful form is first given, and then its cases are described. Among them there are such not often encountered cases, such as syphilitic poliomyelitis and poliomyelitis on the soil of smallpox. In general, the work is of a lot of special interest for a neuropathologist and, together with it, introduces the direction of scientific thought, which has a place in the Moscow Nervous Clinic. With all the merits of the published work, one cannot remain silent about some of its shortcomings, in our opinion, one can reproach the author for his desire to give a short history of illness. In the study of clinical forms, brevity can quickly interfere with the understanding of the process underlying a particular nosological unit. For example, we will point to the observations of the XI and XV-e. It is not clear to the reader whether the attention of the study was drawn to the existence of pain in patients with pressure on the nerve trunks or nerves, but between the two this in our eyes may have a meaning for the purity of the diagnosis. It is unclear, further, why the author does not provide data on lumbar puncture and Wassermann's reaction in the cases where this could have been done (obs. XV). In the cases cited from the literature, the same excessive brevity is visible. So on p. 183 it says about anesthesia I and II in n. trigemini, but which side? Further, it is hardly advisable to use such expressions: (p. 58) degeneration of the posterior pillars from the lower back (?) To the cerebellum, or (p. 89): with tabes, not only the motor cells of the spinal cord, but also in the legs brain ". It would be desirable to avoid the term so-called. muscle sensitivity where there is a rumor about "muscle feelings".

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