The British Society for the History of Science is delighted to announce the publication online of a new translation with commentary of Gregor Mendel's landmark 1866 paper "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" -- the first in a new, freely accessible BSHS Translations series, seeking to make historically important or neglected writings from the scientific past more widely available.
This new series makes use of an innovative publishing format that allows users to move easily between a scan of the original document, a transcription in the original language, the English-language translation, and an almost sentence-by-sentence set of scholarly annotations, offering generous discussions of the large range of interpretative questions that the text raises. An introductory essay and a comprehensive bibliography of associated scholarship are also provided.
The new translation and commentary are the work of Dr Staffan Mueller-Wille (Exeter) and Dr Kersten Hall (Leeds), in collaboration with Michel Durinx from Centimedia. It is a pleasure to make their achievement available to all.
http://www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-translations/mendel
Gregory Radick
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: (UK) 0113 343 3269
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/861/gregory_radick
Director, Leeds Humanities Research Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Vice President, British Society for the History of Science
|