Other Emerging Genres of Synthesis
Other Emerging Genres of Synthesis
From the Fabulaic to the Foundational
This chapter begins to trace the development of contributions of fabulaic, foundational, and historical genres in relation to a universal historical synthesis. Harlow Shapley and George Gamow play a particularly strong role in the refinement and dissemination of these technical and more popular synthetic templates for the natural sciences. They built on and shared in the work of other travelers into the scientific “borderlands,” including in different measure Einstein, Eddington, Lemaître, Philipp Frank, Julian Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, and A. I. Oparin. Such synthetic efforts constructed social and conceptual frameworks to bring together scientists and scientific work, both in the scientific disciplines themselves and in popular conceptions of science and scientists, efforts that became only more urgent in the face of contemporary efforts to divide the sciences by nationality and religion.
Keywords: fabulaic synthesis, foundational synthesis, evolutionary synthesis, George Gamow, Harlow Shapley, Julian Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, A. I. Oparin
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