James L. Larson
{{Short description|American historian (1931–2021)}}
James L. Larson (September 17, 1931 – January 9, 2021){{Cite web|title=JAMES L LARSON Obituary - San Francisco, CA|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-francisco-ca/james-l-larson-9999322|access-date=2021-04-25|website=Dignity Memorial|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425001739/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/san-francisco-ca/james-l-larson-9999322|url-status=live}} 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."{{cite web|title=James L. Larson|url=http://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/james-l-larson/|website=cstms.berkeley.edu|date=29 August 2012 |publisher=CSTMS Berkeley|accessdate=17 September 2015|archive-date=8 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808004150/https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/james-l-larson/|url-status=live}} He completed his dissertation in 1965.{{Cite web|title=James L. Larson :: Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society|date=29 August 2012 |url=https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/james-l-larson/|access-date=2021-04-25|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425001742/https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/james-l-larson/|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite journal|last1=González|first1=Joseph|title=Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520-1545 by James L. Larson (book review)|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=Winter 2012|volume=84|issue=4|pages=506–508|doi=10.1353/scd.2012.0047|jstor=41955693}}
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.{{cite journal|last1=Fink|first1=Carl J.|title=Interpreting Nature; The Science of Living Form from Linnaeus to Kant (book review)|journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies|date=1996|volume=29|issue=3|pages=335–337|doi=10.1353/ecs.1996.0021}}
- Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné,{{cite journal|last1=Stannard|first1=Jerry|title=Reason and Experience. The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné (book review)|journal=Science|date=12 May 1972|page=670|doi=10.1126/science.176.4035.670-a|volume=176}} University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971.
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Category:American historians of science
Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty