STS 3740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fleeming Jenkin, Epistemic Virtue, Ernst Haeckel
16 May 2016
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16:25: an overall understanding of 18th, 19th and 20th century progress in fossil studies or what we need to take away from the history that occurred in these times. Breif summary of major issues in discussion. Look at what previous note takers have done. Explain how georges cuvier and other anatomists and palaeontologists in the early 19th century explained extinctions, and what this theory was formally called. Useful for us to understand how these people approached the world. Humans arms; fish-fins and bats - wings) and analogies Specimens are available in front of you comfortably. Natural philosophy is why things happen cause. The ideal changed from entertainment/freakery/interest to coverage of a particular realm (ex. Consolidate, get taken over by governments or donated. Group species by many different features cladistics. Focus on how certain sciences became possible. Pickstones argument: once europeans collected lots of organisms, they then started to take them apart and compare them in analysis".
