The Chemical Philosophy

Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6002091
AutoresB J T Dobbs, Allen G Debus
Ano1979
Volume84
Fascículo2
Páginas444-444
Data de publicação1979-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1855185
OpenAlexW2105626772
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25

Canadian paleontologist, who conducted extensive researches in Nova Scotia and eventually came to play a leading role in the foundation of McGill University.He was a fundamentalist Presbyterian and opposed the Darwinian vision of a universe based on chance.The striking feature of the work is the evidence it gives for the migration of the organized resistance to materialist evolutionism from Scotland to Canada.In his defence of "sudden outbursts" of new life forms of various geological stages, and his particular interest in Eozoon Canadense (a giant foraminer), Dawson occupies a recognizable position in the wider evolutionary debate.For a ghost stalks these pages, that of Hugh Miller, and no student of evolutionary ideas can fail to respond to the echoes that this reprint brings of a time when science and belief were so deeply intermingled

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