Sentence examples for descriptive history from inspiring English sources

What results is anecdote-rich descriptive history.

According to Aristotle's influential account of scientific knowledge there cannot be an explanatory science of what is contingent and accidental, such things being the purview of a descriptive history.

In 1849, the interior of the hall was described by Chilcott, in his Descriptive history of Bristol as being decorated in a Greek theme, to match the exterior of the building.

Primatology is no longer descriptive natural history; it's about testing hypotheses about ecology and behavior, aided by statistics, mathematical models, genetics and neuroscience.

This essentially descriptive natural history treatment is supplemented with accounts of experiments by Cott and others.

Although theory is becoming more prevalent in the wildlife disease literature, many contributions are descriptive natural history (≈50%; Joseph et al. 2013).

Without values and norms, a book about human mental states and behavior would be a descriptive natural history and nothing more.

"She writes the old history, descriptive and unanalytical, painted in exhilarating colours," said Simon Jenkins in the Sunday Times.

On the whole, however, the Analytic philosophy of religion has been pursued rather independently of the descriptive study and history of religion.

It's a terrific book, because it is descriptive of social history — the Beats, the Five Spot jazz scene, etc. — without using those events to sneak in a little bitterness.

Ecology, the study of the interactions of organisms with their environments, has evolved from descriptive studies—"natural history"—into a vigorous biological discipline with a strong mathematical component, both in the development of theoretical models and in the collection and analysis of quantitative data.