The Anatomy Of A Scientific Institution

Author : Roger Hahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520372214

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Author : Roger Hahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520336056

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The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution by Roger Hahn Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Author : Roger Hahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60966497

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The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution by Roger Hahn Pdf

Author : Maurice Crosland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950588

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Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700–c.1870 by Maurice Crosland Pdf

This second collection of studies by Maurice Crosland has as a first theme the differences in the style and organisation of scientific activity in Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Science was more closely controlled in France, notably by the Paris Academy of Sciences, and the work of provincial amateurs much less prominent than in Britain. The most dramatic change in any branch of science during this period was in chemistry, largely through the work of Lavoisier and his colleagues, the focus of several articles here, and the dominance of this group caused considerable resentment outside France, not least by Joseph Priestley. The issue of authority in science emerges again, within France under the rule of Napoleon, in a study of the exceptional power exercised by the great mathematician Laplace both in theoretical science and in academic politics. This exploration of organisation and power is complemented by a comparative study of the practice of early 'physics' and chemistry and their different reliance on laboratories. This raises the question of whether chemistry provided a model for later experimental work in other sciences, both through the construction of pioneering laboratories and in establishing early schools of research.

Author : Maurice P. Crosland,Maurice Crosland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 052152475X

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Science Under Control by Maurice P. Crosland,Maurice Crosland Pdf

This book examines French science in the 19th Century under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences.

Author : Clifford D Conner
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786737864

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A People's History of Science by Clifford D Conner Pdf

We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the massive foundation created by the rest of us.

Author : Peter Barker,Roger Ariew
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230689

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Revolution and Continuity by Peter Barker,Roger Ariew Pdf

This volume presents new work in history and historiography to the increasingly broad audience for studies of the history and philosophy of science. These essays are linked by a concern to understand the context of early modern science in its own context.

Author : Anne Goldgar,Robert I. Frost
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004138803

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Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society by Anne Goldgar,Robert I. Frost Pdf

This volume offers new insights into the self-perceptions, strategies, and rituals through which early modern institutions functioned. Its wide range and its comparative vision of the nature of institutions prompts a new interpretation of the role of institutions in society. With contributions by Florence Hsia, Ian Anders Gadd, Gayle K. Brunelle, Christopher Carlsmith, Susan E. Brown, Victor Morgan, Steve Hindle, Janelle Day Jenstad, Eve Rosenhaft, Reed Benhamou, James Shaw, Kristine Haugen.

Author : Christopher Drew Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135764036

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Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History by Christopher Drew Armstrong Pdf

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy. Despite not leaving any built work, Leroy is a major international figure of eighteenth-century architectural theory and culture. Considering the place that Leroy occupied in various intellectual circles of the Enlightenment and Revolutionary period, this book examines the sources for his ideas about architectural history and theory and defines his impact on subsequent architectural thought. This book will be of key interest to graduate students and scholars of Enlightenment-era architectural history.

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521228662

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Science and Society in Restoration England by Michael Hunter Pdf

This book, first published in 1981, provides a systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the early history of the Royal Society, Professor Hunter examines the key issues concerning the role of science in late seventeenth-century England.

Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134263011

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Reader's Guide to the History of Science by Arne Hessenbruch Pdf

The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.

Author : David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521572446

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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science by David C. Lindberg,Katharine Park,Roy Porter,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

Author : David F. Channell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319956060

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The Rise of Engineering Science by David F. Channell Pdf

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science, transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today. This book analyzes how the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries provided the intellectual, social, economic and institutional foundations for the emergence of engineering science. The book then traces the rise of engineering science from the 18th century through the 19th century and concludes by showing how it led to new technological developments in such areas as steel production, the invention of internal combustion engines, the creation of automobiles and airplanes, and the formulation of Mass Production and Scientific Management all of which brought about major transformations in the materials, power sources, transportation and production techniques that have come to shape our modern world.

Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019353168

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A Handbook of the Principal Scientific Institutions of Boston and Vicinity by American Association for the Advancement of Science Pdf

Author : David M. Knight
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sources for the History of Science, 1660-1914 by David M. Knight Pdf