Overview
- First book to place Winogradsky's work in a broad historical and scientific context
- Based on a close reading of scientific and archival sources
- Unites a unique biography with history of history of ecology ?
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 34)
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This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a “cycle of life” into their investigations. Their research transformed a longstanding notion into the fundamental approaches and concepts that underlay the new ecological disciplines that emerged in the 1920s. The book presents a reconstruction of significant episodes of Vinogradskii’s laboratory practices and the role of theory in their development. It paints the broader picture of the history of ecology, microbiology and soil science and how these are uniquely united: through the concept of the cycle of life.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Experiment and Natural History
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French Agriculture
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The Impact of Vinogradskii’s Work
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“The book is an important contribution to our picture of shifting disciplinary boundaries, as well as to discussions of the not-so-black-and-white distinction between field science and lab science. … it complicates our understanding of the streams of thought and methodology that blended into ecology and into Vernadsky’s biogeochemistry by 1920 or so. Thus, it is an important contribution to environmental history–particularly restoring the cycle of life concept to the narrative–as well as to the history of biology.” (James Strick, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 48, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life
Book Subtitle: From the Thermodynamics of Life to Ecological Microbiology, 1850-1950
Authors: Lloyd Ackert
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5198-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5197-2Published: 30 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8101-5Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5198-9Published: 29 October 2012
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 194
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Ecology, History of Science