Science in Community: Anatomy, Academy, and Argument in the Eighteenth-Century Holy Roman Empire

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作者
Boettcher, Julia Carina [1 ]
机构
[1] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, FAU Kompetenzzentrum interdisziplinare Wissenschaf, Bismarckstr 12, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
关键词
Anatomical dissection; eighteenth century; community; physician; Christoph Jacob Trew; Nuremberg; Johann Gottlieb Schaffer; Regensburg; Academia Naturae Curiosorum;
D O I
10.1002/bewi.202300026
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
Understanding physicians as actors who implemented the early modern ideal of collective empiricism into their practices within the local contexts of everyday life, the paper explores two cases from imperial cities in southern Germany in the 1720s and 1780s in which anatomical studies were contested. By analyzing the strategies and arguments that the two physicians used to justify and continue their anatomical dissections, it focuses on their references to different kinds of (local) community and relates these references to another type of collective: membership in a scientific academy. To examine references to community, it is proposed, offers an opportunity to better understand the spread and practice of the ideal of the study of nature as a collective project and how it was intertwined with concepts and structures of order and society in the Holy Roman Empire.
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页码:242 / 261
页数:20
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