Background
Yeo, Richard Reginald was born on December 10, 1948 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Reginald Stanley Yeo and Joan Bernadette Tyler.
(Defining Science deals with the major role of the histori...)
Defining Science deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature of science and its moral and cultural value. Richard Yeo also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere--most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. Analysis of the whole corpus of Whewell's work suggests that it be seen not only as an attempt to define science, but to clarify his own vocation as its leading critic.
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(The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and s...)
The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the classification of knowledge, the tradition of commonplaces, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues, and the specialization of science. He examines assumptions about the organization, communication, and control of knowledge in these works. Elegantly illustrated and clearly written, Encyclopaedic Visions provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of science, and the history of ideas in general.
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(The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate...)
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as 'natural knowledge' - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word 'scientist' (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of science were part of a public debate that included the following topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral demeanour of the man of science, the hierarchy of specialised scientific disciplines, and the relation with natural theology. These topics were discussed both within scientific circles - in correspondence and meeting of societies - as well as in the wider public sphere constituted by quarterly journals and encyclopaedias. A study of these debates allow us to see how British science of this period began to cast loose some of its earlier theological supports, but still relied on a moral framework to affirm its distinctive method, ethos and cultural value.
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(Defining Science deals with the major role of the histori...)
Defining Science deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature of science and its moral and cultural value. Richard Yeo also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere--most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. Analysis of the whole corpus of Whewell's work suggests that it be seen not only as an attempt to define science, but to clarify his own vocation as its leading critic.
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Yeo, Richard Reginald was born on December 10, 1948 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Reginald Stanley Yeo and Joan Bernadette Tyler.
Bachelor in History with 1st class honours, Sydney University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Sydney University, 1978.
Tutor University New South Wales, Sydney, 1978-1980. Lecturer, then senior lecturer Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 1980-1994, readr in History of Science Australia, since 1995.
(The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate...)
(Defining Science deals with the major role of the histori...)
(Defining Science deals with the major role of the histori...)
(The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and s...)
Member Community Aid Abroad, Brisbane, 1986-2000. Member History of Science Society.
Married Mary Louise Wilson, August 22, 1972. Children: Gillian, Claire.