Book chapter
Conclusions
Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life, pp 173-178
08 Aug 2012
Abstract
In this work, I have woven together historical threads from Vinogradskii’s life and scientific work to describe a new dimension of the history of ecology. Lying along an obscure trajectory in that history, Vinogradskii’s story accentuates the role—not of natural historians, Darwinists, and plant communities—but rather of experimentalists (who often fused their laboratory investigations with field observations), holists, and soil microbes. As this cast of characters suggests, incorporating this dimension of the history of ecology into the larger disciplinary story requires that we include a neglected set of scientists who perceived themselves as pursuing an experimental investigation of energy, matter, and life. By recognizing the influence of Pasteur, Famintsyn, Dokuchaev, Vinogradskii, and other such late-nineteenth century microbiologists, plant physiologists, and soil scientists, historians of science will derive a fuller and ultimately more satisfactory account of the historical development of ecology.
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- Title
- Conclusions
- Creators
- Lloyd Ackert - Department of History and Politics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
- Publication Details
- Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life, pp 173-178
- Series
- Archimedes
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85101988570
- Other Identifier
- 991019173832404721