The Scientific Enterprise

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309048347

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Headline News, Science Views II by National Research Council Pdf

Why all the talk about biodiversity? Is malaria really making a comeback? Just what are computer viruses? Many Americans are confused about these and other issues involving science, technology, and health care. But they lack the time or technical background to read scientific reports. Headline News, Science Views II provides short, readable answers directly from the experts. Leading scientists, engineers, and others discuss today's issues in language that is understandable and compellingâ€"without jargon. This engaging book "can be warmly recommended to card-carrying scientists and laypeople alike," New Scientist wrote about the first edition of Headline News, Science Views. "Try the opening items and say goodbye to your next couple of hours." Now, in a completely new edition packed with 75 engaging articles, Headline News, Science Views II probes further into scientific issues behind today's headlines, issues like highway safety, global warming, industrial competitiveness, and women's health. Experts on these and other topics discuss where the problems lie and how to fix them. The essays originally were distributed by the National Academy Op-Ed Service and published in more than 250 newspapers. Many are tied to studies of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. Together, they make ground-breaking scientific achievement accessible, fascinatingâ€"and fun.

Author : J. P. Hogendijk,A. I. Sabra
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0262194821

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The Enterprise of Science in Islam by J. P. Hogendijk,A. I. Sabra Pdf

Recent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.

Author : Edna Ullmann-Margalit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401126885

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The Scientific Enterprise by Edna Ullmann-Margalit Pdf

The volume before us is the fourth in the series of proceedings of what used to be the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. This Colloquium has in the meantime been renamed. It now bears the name of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975). Bar-Hillel was an eminent philosopher of science, language, and cognition, as well as a fearless fighter for enlightenment and a passionate teacher who had a durable influence on Israeli philosophical life. The essays collected in this volume have of course this much in common, that they are all in, of, and pertaining to science. They also share the property of having all been delivered before live, and often lively, audiences in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, in the years 1984-1986. As is customary in the volumes of this series, the essays and commentaries presented here are intended to strike a rather special balance between the disciplines to which the Colloquium is dedicated. The historical and sociological vantage point is addressed in Kramnick's and Mali's treatment of Priestley, in Vickers' and Feldhay's studies of the Renaissance occult, and in Warnke's and Barasch's work on the imagination. From a philosophical angle several concepts, all material to the methodology of science, are taken up: rule following, by Smart and Margalit; analysis, by Ackerman; explanation, by Taylor; and the role of mathematics in physics, by Levy-Leblond and Pitowsky.

Author : Michael H. Shank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226749509

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The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Michael H. Shank Pdf

This stimulating collection of twenty-two articles is intended not only to explore a range of scientific topics but to engage readers in historiographical debates and methodological issues that surround the study of ancient and medieval science. A convenient sampling of classic and contemporary scholarship, it will appeal to students and specialists alike. Contributors include Francesca Rochberg, David Pingree, G. E. R. Lloyd, Heinrich von Staden, Martin Bernal, Alexander Jones, Bernard Goldstein, Alan Bowen, Owsei Temkin, David Lindberg, Steven McCluskey, Linda Voigts, Edward Grant, Bernard Goldstein, Victor Roberts, Lynn Thorndike, Helen Lemay, William Newman, A. Mark Smith, Nancy Siraisi, Michael McVaugh, and Brian P. Copenhaver.

Author : Robert M. Hazen,James Trefil
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307456649

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Science Matters by Robert M. Hazen,James Trefil Pdf

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book Review Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good. Science Matters is a rare exception—a science book that is informative enough for introductory courses in high school and college, and yet lucid enough for readers uncomfortable with scientific jargon and complicated mathematics. And now, revised and expanded, it is up-to-date, so that readers can enjoy Hazen and Trefil's refreshingly accessible explanations of the most recent developments in science, from particle physics to biotechnology.

Author : Arne Næss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Research
ISBN : NWU:35556005016266

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The Pluralist and Possibilist Aspect of the Scientific Enterprise by Arne Næss Pdf

Author : Lawrence M Busch,William B Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000314526

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The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise by Lawrence M Busch,William B Lacy Pdf

The State Agricultural Experiment Stations have played a fundamental role in the development of science and agriculture in the United States. From their inception in 1887, the experiment stations have attempted to wed basic research with practical application and have helped institutionalize a utilitarian approach to agricultural science. Agricultural research and the new technology it helped to generate were major factors in the transformation of U.S. agriculture into a high technology, mechanized, science-based industry. Moreover, the experiment stations, as the first large-scale, publicly supported scientific research institutions in the United States, have also long been models for scientific institutions both here and abroad. Compiled for the 1987 centennial of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, this volume critically examines past performance, current issues, and future directions for public agricultural research in the United States. Each of the authors, drawn from disciplines as diverse as philosophy and agronomy, focuses on a central concern for the scientific enterprise. Issues include priority setting, maintaining and promoting disciplinary and interdisciplinary effectiveness, supporting higher education for agriculture, and efficacious dissemination of research findings. By setting these issues in their historical and philosophical context, the volume suggests new approaches for meeting the continuing challenge to achieve equity, efficiency, sustainability, flexibility, conservation, and consistency with other objectives of U.S. society.

Author : Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012285329

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The Scientific Enterprise, Today and Tomorrow by Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso Pdf

Examines science since the World War II with emphasis on new discoveries, trends, and inventions.

Author : Arne Naess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Research
ISBN : 0045000220

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The Pluralist and Possibilist Aspect of the Scientific Enterprise by Arne Naess Pdf

Author : Miriam R. Levin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 1584654198

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Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise by Miriam R. Levin Pdf

An important new look at how gender, religion, pedagogy, and geography help shape women's scientific work.

Author : Syed Akheel Ahmed
Publisher : I. K. International Pvt Ltd
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788189866501

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Islam and Scientific Enterprise by Syed Akheel Ahmed Pdf

The history of Islamic Science has not received the recognition it deserves. Although reverence is accorded to the memory of such great figures of Islamic history as Ar-Razi (Rhazes), Jabir-ibn-Hayyan (Geber) and Omar Khyaam. The present treatise is an attempt to construct an outline of the progress of Islamic Science from the days of the prophet Muhammad to the end of fifteenth century. Spread in fifteen chapters the book traces the growth and development of Islamic Science during the hay days of Islamic glory. It throws succinct and incisive light on various aspects of Islamic Science, namely, mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, astrology, music, alchemy, chemistry, medicine and geography. In short the approach is objective, analysis systematic, treatment logical and the style lucid

Author : Ronald L. Numbers,Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226608387

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The Scientific Enterprise in America by Ronald L. Numbers,Charles E. Rosenberg Pdf

This collection of sixteen essays on the history of science in America ranges chronologically from the early nineteenth century to the present. The essays reflect the ever-broadening scope of the discipline: from the pursuit of science in elite academic, industrial, and governmental settings to science at home and in the movies. Such timely issues as women and science, the ethics of science, and the bomb are examined. Contributions include Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, "Parlors, Primers, and Public Schooling: Education for Science in Nineteenth-Century America;" Margaret Rossiter, "'Women's Work' in Science, 1880-1910;" Philip J. Pauly, "The Development of High School Biology: New York City, 1900-1925;" Susan E. Lederer, "Political Animals: The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America;" Stanley Goldberg, "Inventing a Climate of Opinion: Vannevar Bush and the Decision to Build the Bomb;" Daniel J. Kevles, "The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science: The Endless Frontier;" David A. Hollinger, "Science as a Weapon in Kulturkämpfe in the United States During and After World War II;" and others. These essays originally were published in Isis, a publication of the History of Science Society.

Author : George Campbell Jr.,Ronni Denes,Catherine Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0195355377

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Access Denied by George Campbell Jr.,Ronni Denes,Catherine Morrison Pdf

Since the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s, minority groups have seen a tremendous amount of progress, but African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians still remain severely underrepresented in science, engineering, and mathematics. And although government, industry, and private philanthropies have supported more than 200 pre-college and college-level initiatives to increase the access and retention of minority students, the outcomes of these programs have not been well documented. This book from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) presents definitive essays by leading research scholars, academics, and industry representatives on the participation of minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering. Its extensive coverage includes essays on current demographics, entering the education system, influences on minority participation, barriers to success, and preparation for academic careers. It is ideal for scholars, researchers, educators, and policymakers who study and strive to break the barriers of discrimination.

Author : Peter Dear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Interdisciplinary studies on information structure
ISBN : UOM:39015038593730

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The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe by Peter Dear Pdf

This collection of readings on what is often called the "Scientific Revolution" brings together fourteen articles from the leading journal in the history of science, and combines traditional scholarship with revisionist approaches to the major themes of the period. This carefully-structured collection will help readers (students and specialists alike) approach complex questions - involving argument and experiment, audience and agency, authority and institutions - that surround this crucial era.

Author : Lewis Pyenson,Susan Sheets-Pyenson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393046141

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Servants of Nature by Lewis Pyenson,Susan Sheets-Pyenson Pdf

Explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life