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Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book …
  • … Dr White: My name is Paul White and I’m here with Pietro Corsi today. This is part of a series …
  • … I want to start by asking you a bit more about that period, and we [historians] have – from your …
  • … arena, if one thinks of [Jean Baptiste de] Lamarck and [Georges] Cuvier and [Etienne] Geoffroy Saint …
  • … Myself [included], but a lot of others as well: we build on each other’s work, which is natural. …
  • … needs to be done. We have concentrated our attention on very, very few main actors – the ones you …
  • … extremely rare are the examples of systematic investigation on ways of communicating science [in …
  • … des sciences , but let’s say, ?the Institution of Science?) and people have also assumed that the …
  • … course, no-one can deny the centrality of Cuvier and later on, well, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and
  • … been doing in the last four or five years has concentrated on periodicals, which is obvious, and
  • … history or at the surface of the world. References to religion are extremely limited if not non …
  • … even the personal relationships, between big names in German science who had visited Paris and had …
  • … figure, almost? someone active at the fringe of proper science, who had even gone to prison for …
  • … I assumed that the same kind of iron fist was applying to science. I was totally wrong. The more you …
  • … a couple of French historians – friends of mine – at a conference recently. I said that you do not …
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