From Cutting Nature at Its Joints to Measuring It: New Kinds and New Kinds of People in Biology

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 613-645

  McOuat, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KING S COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kuhn; Measurement; Natural History; Natural Kinds; Species

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; NATURAL HISTORY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0035656972     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(01)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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