Epistemological foundations of the experimental method applied to animal studies in the 18th Century

• Grant number: 05/00575-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: June 24, 2005
• End date: August 15, 2005
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Science
• Principal Investigator: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes
• Grantee: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes
• Host Investigator: François Duchesneau
• Host Institution: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História da Ciência. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université de Montréal, Canada

Abstract

This project intends to work with historical studies devoted to the treatement of living beings in modern time, focusing the development of experimental method. In his present stage, the research seeks the correlations between metodological, empirical, and conceptual considerations on the studies of animal reproduction made by Lazzaro Spallanzani. These correlations aim to epistemological basis over which was constructed an autonomous investigation of living beings in the Eighteenth Century. (AU)