Leah Ceccarelli, "Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger and Wilson"
2001 | ISBN-10: 0226099067, 0226099075 | 216 pages | PDF | 1 MB
2001 | ISBN-10: 0226099067, 0226099075 | 216 pages | PDF | 1 MB
In considering how scientists persuade colleagues to cross the disciplinary divide, this text examines three scientific monographs in their historical contexts: Dodzhansky's "Genetics and the Origin of Species" (1937); Schrodinger's "What is Life?" (1944); and Wilson's "Consilience" (1998).