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History of Mathematics and History of Science [PDF]
Isis, 2011 This essay argues that the diversity of the history of mathematics community in the United Kingdom has influenced the development of the subject and is a significant factor behind the different concerns often evident in work on the history of mathematics when compared with that of historians of science.
Mann, Tony
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Verdelgen of verheffen? De evolutietheorie en de maakbaarheid van de mens
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2007 To elevate or to exterminate? Evolution theory and the ‘Man’s ability to be transformed’ Around 1900, Belgian scientists from different disciplines were tempted to use the theory of evolution as a tool to make pronouncements about the ‘Man’s ability to ...
R. de Bont
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The Dutch Republic. Laboratory of the Scientific Revolution
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2010 Historians agree about the significance of the Scientific Revolution for the development of modern society; there is little agreement, however, as to the nature and the causes of this major shift in our perception of the natural world.
Klaas van Berkel
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Nature, 1901 THERE have lately appeared in NATURE suggestive summaries of addresses by Sir H. Roscoe, Dr. D. J. Hill and Prof. Ramsay on, respectively, “The Work of the London University,” “The Extension of Knowledge” and “The Functions of a University,” together with various other papers of an educational character.
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Nature, 1894 I SEE by your review of the National in the last number of NATURE, p. 162, that Prof. G. W. Prothero, in his “Address on History,” takes occasion to notice Buckle's “History of Civilisation.” “Buckle,” he says, “in illustrating his theory that national character depends largely upon food, attributes the weakness of the Hindoos to an almost exclusive ...
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The Historiography of Science as a Specific Field of Research
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2018 From the ...
Mauro L. Condé, Marlon Salomon
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Richard Kirwan a [united] Irish man of science in Europe
Condensed Matter PhysicsThe late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been considered as a formative period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism.
R. Folk
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Jordan's Derivation of Blackbody Fluctuations [PDF]
, 2017 The celebrated Dreimännerarbeit by Born, Heisenberg and Jordan contains a matrix-mechanical derivation by Jordan of Planck’s formula for blackbody fluctuations.
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Winter 2016 - HIPS Newsletter [PDF]
, 2016 https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cahss_hips_newsletter/1000/thumbnail ...
Department of History and Political Science
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