Victorian interdisciplinarity and the sciences: rethinking the specialization thesis
Éditeur :
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN :
9780822948148
Date de publication :
14 mai 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The specialization thesis—the idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplines—has played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science.