James L. Larson (September 17, 1931 – January 9, 2021) was an American historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Work
Larson earned his PhD at Berkeley with a dissertation entitled, "Speculation and experience: an inquiry into systematic description in the work of Carl von Linne." He completed his dissertation in 1965.
Larson is known for his work on the "early modern understandings of the natural and scientific world, and in particular, the work of Carl Linnaeus.
Books
- Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 (2010) Cambridge.
- Interpreting Nature; The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
- Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971.
References
- "JAMES L LARSON Obituary - San Francisco, CA". Dignity Memorial. Archived from the original on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- "James L. Larson". cstms.berkeley.edu. CSTMS Berkeley. 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- "James L. Larson :: Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society". 29 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ González, Joseph (Winter 2012). "Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 by James L. Larson (book review)". Scandinavian Studies. 84 (4): 506–508. doi:10.1353/scd.2012.0047. JSTOR 41955693.
- Fink, Carl J. (1996). "Interpreting Nature; The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant (book review)". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 29 (3): 335–337. doi:10.1353/ecs.1996.0021.
- Stannard, Jerry (12 May 1972). "Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné (book review)". Science. 176: 670. doi:10.1126/science.176.4035.670-a.