Lamm Ehud
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2008;30(3-4):387-405.
Richard Goldschmidt famously rejected the notion of atomic and corpuscular genes, arranged on the chromosome like beads-on-a-string. I provide an exegesis of Goldschmidt's intuition by analyzing his repeated and extensive use of metaphorical language and analogies in his attempts to convey his notion of the nature of the genetic material and specifically the significance of chromosomal pattern. The paper concentrates on Goldschmidt's use of metaphors in publications spanning 1940-1955.
理查德·戈德施密特著名地拒绝了原子基因和微粒基因的概念,即基因像串在绳子上的珠子一样排列在染色体上。我通过分析戈德施密特在试图传达他对遗传物质本质的概念,特别是染色体模式的重要性时,对隐喻性语言和类比的反复大量使用,来对他的直觉进行阐释。本文集中探讨戈德施密特在1940年至1955年期间出版物中对隐喻的运用。