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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism_in_science
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>Romanticism, also known as the "Age of Reflexion," describes the
>intellectual movement from 1800-1840 that originated in Western Europe
>as a counter-movement to the Enlightenment of the late 18th century.
>Romanticism incorporated many fields of study, including art, music,
>poetry and drama, painting, prose, theology, and philosophy, yet it
>also had a major impact in sciences of the 19th century.[1]
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>European scientists, disillusioned with the mechanical natural
>philosophy of the Enlightenment as well as the Newtonian model of
>physics, supported the belief that observing nature meant
>understanding the self and that the answers that nature could give us
>should not be obtained by force. They warned that Enlightenment
>encouraged the abuse of the sciences and sought to advance a new way
>of increasing scientific knowledge, one they felt would be even more
>beneficial to not only mankind but to nature as well.[2]
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>Romanticism set forth different themes: it was anti-reductionist (the
>whole was more valuable than the parts alone), championed
>epistemological optimism (man was connected to nature), and encouraged
>creativity, experience, and genius.[3] It also emphasized the
>scientist's role in scientific discovery as understanding that
>acquiring knowledge of nature meant understanding man as well;
>therefore, these scientists had a profound respect for nature.[4]
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>The decline of Romanticism occurred because a new movement,
>Positivism, began to take hold of the ideals of the intellectuals
>around 1840 that lasted until about 1880. Like the intellectuals who
>were disenchanted with the Enlightenment and preferred a new approach
>to science, people lost interest in Romanticism and wanted to study
>science using a stricter process.