Biology Reference
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John Amos Comenius,
Panorthosia or Universal Reform: Chapter 1-18 and 27
,
trans. A. M. O. Dobbie (Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic, 1995), 47.
41
Robert K. Merton,
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investiga-
tions
, ed. Norman Storer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), 228-
53. Originally published as “Motive Forces of the New Science,” chap. 5 in
Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-Century England
(Bruges, Belgium:
Saint Catherine, 1938).
42
Merton,
Sociology of Science
, 233.
43
Two prominent historians of seventeenth-century science have come to the
support of Merton's thesis. See Webster,
Great Instauration
; and Christopher
Hill,
The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714
(Edinburgh, U.K.: T. Nelson, 1961).
44
Chaim Perelman,
The Realm of Rhetoric
, trans. W. Kluback (Notre Dame, Ind.:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1982), 36.
45
S. F. Mason, “The Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation,”
in
Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science: The Merton Thesis
, ed. I. Bernard
Cohen (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 184-88.
46
Kenneth Burke,
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and
Method
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 45.
47
Hugh F. Kearney, “Puritanism, Capitalism and the Scientific Revolution,”
Past and Present
28 (1964): 81-101. In this particular essay, Kearney is largely
responding to the work of Hill,
Century of Revolution
.
48
James W. Carroll, “Merton's Thesis on English Science,”
American Journal of
Economics and Sociology
13 (1954): 427-32; T. K. Rabb, “Puritanism and the
Rise of Experimental Science in England,”
Journal of World History
7 (1962):
46-66; A. Rupert Hall, “Merton Revisited, or Science and Society in the Sev-
enteenth Century,”
History of Science
2 (1963): 1-16; Westfall,
Science and Reli-
gion
, 7.
49
John Henry, “The Scientific Revolution in England,” in
The Scientific Revolu-
tion in National Context
, ed. Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1992), 181-82.
50
Yakov Rabkin, “The Interaction of Scientific and Jewish Cultures: An His-
torical Overview,” in
The Interaction of Scientific and Jewish Cultures in Modern
Times,
ed. Yakov Rabkin and Ira Robinson (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen,
1995), 3-30.
51
Ben-David,
Scientist's Role
, 16 -17.
52
Gary A. Abraham, “Misunderstanding the Merton Thesis: A Boundary
Dispute between History and Sociology,”
Isis
74 (1983): 368-87; Joseph Ben-
David, “Puritanism and Modern Science: A Study in the Continuity and
Coherence of Sociological Research,” in
Comparative Social Dynamics
, ed. Eric
