Moscoso J
Department for the History of Science and Medicine, Harvard University.
Dynamis. 1995;15:341-73.
This paper deals with the way in which the pre-existence of germs was defended in the face of experimental conclusions regarding animal regeneration in the period between the turn of the seventeenth century and the 1760's. From the experiments of Claude Perrault (1680), Antoine de Réaumur (1712), Abraham Trembley (1740-44) and Charles Bonnet (1740), it became clear that pre-existence delimited its objective so narrowly as to make it invulnerable to all possible experimental refutation. Moreover, we shall argue that this construction of the objective was linked with a renewed definition of the "community of Practitioners" built upon the notion of "scientific exclusion".
本文探讨了在17世纪之交至18世纪60年代期间，面对有关动物再生的实验结论，生源说（预成论）是如何得到捍卫的。从克劳德·佩罗（1680年）、安托万·德·雷奥米尔（1712年）、亚伯拉罕·特朗布雷（1740 - 1744年）和查尔斯·邦尼特（1740年）的实验可以清楚地看出，生源说对其目标的界定非常狭窄，以至于使其免受所有可能的实验反驳。此外，我们将论证，这种目标的构建与基于“科学排斥”概念对“从业者群体”的重新定义有关。
