Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879–1960): Fragments of her Life, Including her Place in Biology and in Women's Studies

Schmid, Rudolf

doi:10.1006/anbo.2001.1553

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“…On the other hand, working outside a scientific institution meant less contact with others in the field. One botanist of her time described Arber as a recluse (Corner, 1961), but others have taken issue with this view and seen her as gracious and welcoming, and eager to help others (Schmid, 2001). Her correspondence indicates that she kept in contact with botanists, both in Britain and in the USA, India, and other countries.…”

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Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Flannery

2003

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Flannery

2003

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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“…Her struggles as a woman trying to establish a scientific career in the first half of the 20th Century have made her a feminist icon. For an examination of Arber's life and career from a feminist prespective, see Packer (1997) and Schmid (2001).…”

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Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

van der Valk

2023

WSP

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Wetlands are valuable but threatened natural resources worldwide. While providing a wealth of environmental benefits, wetlands play a vital role in temporarily storing flood waters and thereby reducing the risk of damaging floods. This is important given the predicted impacts of climate change, especially along the world’s coastline and coastal cities. The continued expansion of urban areas is posing a risk to wetlands in and around metropolitan areas. In this article we examine wetland trends in urban areas in three Latin American countries – Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

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“…A decade before Brady, English botanist Agnes Arber (1879–1960; Schmid, ) attempted to show how comparative biology is independent of speculative processes (Arber, ). Pure morphology was for Arber the visual and conceptual interpretation of the perceived, rather than the conceptual prediction of the unperceived (Arber, , p.125): “Arber felt that biological thinking suffered a sort of imprisonment by being materialized, by turning from the actual relations of form which were the morphologist's first concern to the physical theory of descent pinned upon them.…”

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Ronald Brady and the cladists

Ebach

Williams

2019

Cladistics

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Ronald Brady was the first philosopher to defend pattern cladistics as an independent scientific field. That independence was achieved through the decoupling of biological systematics from phylogenetics––that is, inferred evolutionary processes (e.g. character transformation). Brady saw parallels between biological systematics and Wolfgang von Goethe's Morphology, an empirical scientific field that incorporates human observation and perception to discover coherent morphological structures. Goethe's Morphology and pre‐Darwinian systematics were independent from evolutionary narratives, a tradition that continued into the 20th Century through the work of biologists such as Agnes Arber. Most importantly, Brady provided the philosophical and historical foundations to an independent systematics by demonstrating the links between phenomenology, Goethe's Morphology and comparative biology.

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Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879–1960): Fragments of her Life, Including her Place in Biology and in Women's Studies

Cited by 13 publications

References 66 publications

Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Agnes Arber: form in the mind and the eye

Beginnings of Wetland Science in Britain: Agnes Arber and William H. Pearsall

Ronald Brady and the cladists

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