Titlebook: Beliefs and Biology; Theories of Life and Jennifer Trusted Book 2003Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers L

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-12175-6acts about the natural world. But facts are made significant by theories and beliefs, and in this chapter we shall see how these influenced the way the new observations were described and interpreted. We shall also see how, in their turn, older theories and beliefs were influenced by the new discoveries.

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Book 2003Latest editions to the nature of life and our human place in the natural world. It follows that there are accounts of theories and investigations from those of Aristotle to research in molecular biology today. These have been selected to illustrate the theme and there is no intention to present a comprehensive hi

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The Appeal to Physical Explanations,’. In the seventeenth century magic and mysticism played a decreasing role, but the interest in direct observation increased. This was accompanied by a new focus for inquiry in that mechanistic descriptions of the vital activities of living organisms and mechanistic explanations of their functions w

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Idealism and Materialism,echanistic explanations which had come to be associated with the French . of the Enlightenment. As we have seen, Lamarck thought of himself as a mechanist and though we may find the appellation inappropriate it was certainly appropriate when applied to many of his contemporaries, and especially to H

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,Secular Beliefs — Suppositions and Presuppositions, history at that time. From the 1820s onwards, biology was firmly established as an approach to the study of living things, and as a bona fide science it could acquire positivist approbation. It could be distinguished from and contrasted favourably with natural history because it sought explanations