Digitale Medien
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @British journal for the history of science
5 (1971), S. 323-352
ISSN:
0007-0874
Quelle:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Thema:
Geschichte
,
Allgemeine Naturwissenschaft
Notizen:
As a historical figure, Lamarck proves a rather difficult subject. His writings give us few explicit leads to his intellectual debts; nor do they present his theories as the outcome of any sustained course of observations or experimental research; and, what is equally frustrating, it is hard to see how his personal development as a scientific theorist was affected by the dramatic political and social upheavals of the period, in which he took an active and lively interest. And so, with his importance for later writers much clearer than his relationship to those of his own and earlier ages, historians have repeatedly interpreted his works as prophetic of doctrines developed more fully by subsequent generations. No less surprisingly, this facile tactic has provoked a reaction; we have been offered Lamarck as a Stoic, a romantic, harking back to Heraclitus.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400011572
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