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The Light of Nature

Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A.C. Crombie

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  • © 1985

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  1. J. D. North
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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • J. D. North, J. J. Roche
      Pages 1-3
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About this book

This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its publication is his seven­ tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je­ sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La­ boratory, a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the his­ tory and philosophy of science at University College, London. H. G. Andrewa­ ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al. , History of Entomology, 1973), recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti­ mulus for the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid 194Os.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Light of Nature

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science presented to A.C. Crombie

  • Editors: J. D. North, J. J. Roche

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5119-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3165-7Published: 31 October 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8763-6Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5119-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 471

  • Topics: History, general, Philosophy of Science

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