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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  
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I. The history of ideas about the external order of nature studied by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.

                  
Alchemy Genetic Continuity 
Astrology Health and Disease 
Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century Indeterminacy in Physics 
Atomism in the Seventeenth Century Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics (Lamarckian) 
Biological Conceptions in Antiquity Inheritance through Pangenesis 
Biological Homologies and Analogies Longevity 
Biological Models Changing Concepts of Matter from Antiquity to Newton 
Conservation of Natural Resources Nature 
Cosmic Images Newton and the Method of Analysis 
Cosmic Voyages Optics and Vision 
Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850 Orgranicism 
Cosmology since 1850  Recapitulation 
Entropy Relativity 
Environment Space 
Environment and Culture  Spontaneous Generation 
Evolutionism Technology 
Experimental Science and Mechanics in the Middle Ages Time and Measurement 
Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism 

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