The Naturalist and the Emperor, a Tragedy in Three Acts; or, How History Fell Out of Favor as a Way of Knowing Nature
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
My subject is a crucial episode in the story of how historical explanation fell out of favor as an element of naturalist
understanding: how history found itself banished from science. It involves Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the Romantic- and Revolution-era French naturalist who coined the term "biology" and offered the first theory of evolution, and focuses upon his relations with Napoleon.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Publication date | February 10, 2023; 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Riskin, Jessica |
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Subjects
| Subject | Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829 |
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| Subject | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 |
| Subject | biology, history |
| Subject | evolutiony, history |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Article |
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- Riskin, J. (2023). The Naturalist and the Emperor, a Tragedy in Three Acts; or, How History Fell Out of Favor as a Way of Knowing Nature. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/dz830hf9481. https://doi.org/10.25740/dz830hf9481.
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