James L. Larson
James L. Larson (September 17, 1931 – January 6, 2021)[1] was an American historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Work[edit]
Larson earned his PhD at Berkeley with a dissertation entitled, "Speculation and experience: an inquiry into systematic description in the work of Carl von Linne."[2] He completed his dissertation in 1965.[3]
Larson is known for his work on the "early modern understandings of the natural and scientific world, and in particular, the work of Carl Linnaeus.[4]
Books[edit]
- Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 (2010) Cambridge.[4]
- Interpreting Nature; The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.[5]
- Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné,[6] University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971.
References[edit]
- ^ "JAMES L LARSON Obituary - San Francisco, CA". Dignity Memorial. Archived from the original on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "James L. Larson". cstms.berkeley.edu. CSTMS Berkeley. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ^ "James L. Larson :: Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society". Archived from the original on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ a b González, Joseph (Winter 2012). "Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 by James L. Larson (book review)". Scandinavian Studies. 84 (4): 506–508. doi:10.1353/scd.2012.0047. JSTOR 41955693.
- ^ Fink, Carl J. (1996). "Interpreting Nature; The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant (book review)". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 29 (3): 335–337. doi:10.1353/ecs.1996.0021.
- ^ Stannard, Jerry (12 May 1972). "Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné (book review)". Science. 176: 670. doi:10.1126/science.176.4035.670-a.
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