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A Romantic Life Dedicated to Science: André-Marie Ampère’s Autobiography [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores André-Marie Ampère's autobiography in order to analyse the dynamics of science in early 19th century French institutions. According to recent works that have emphasised the value of biographies in the history of science, this study ...
Moruno, Dolores Martín
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Mechanical resonance: 300 years from discovery to the full understanding of its importance [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Starting from the observation that the simplest form of forced mechanical oscillation serves as a standard model for analyzing a broad variety of resonance processes in many fields of physics and engineering, the remarkably slow development leading to this insight is reviewed.
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John Turnbull Thomson and the Hikayat Abdullah
, 2015 This article examines the history of cross-cultural encounters between Asia and the Western world by analysing the impact of a prominent 19th-century Malay intellectual figure, Munshi Abdullah, on the writings of a key 19th-century New Zealand figure ...
Wong, Wilbert
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A Historical Study on Development of Optometry [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Development of optometry in western countries was studied on a viewpoint of the history of science. It was revealed that optometry had been formed on the basis of optics, a branch of physics, to which biomedical study was added. Optometry can be defined as a pioneering interdisciplinary field of study and as biomedical physics of the 19th century.
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Eusebio Chacon: A Literary Portrait of 19th Century New Mexico [PDF]
, 1987 The working paper looks at Hispanic literary history in the 19th century in New ...
Lomeli, Francisco A.
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Migration Trends in US History, 19th-21st Century [PDF]
, 2016 Poster exhibit that details student project examining trends in migration to and throughout United States in 19th-21st ...
Horstman, Yvonne L.
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Lord Lytton and the Afghan war (1879) [PDF]
, 1879 Diplomatic history of Afghanistan, 19th ...
Eastwick, William Joseph
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A History of Slavery in Central Asia: Shī’ī Muslim Enslavement in 19th Century Bukhara [PDF]
, 2018 In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Despite more than a century of interest on the part of western scholars and historians in the region of Central Asia, in many respects our knowledge of many topics in Central Asian history ...
Dunbar, Robert
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Education and vulnerability. On the historiographical analysis of the German educational discourse on punishment in the "short" 19th century [PDF]
Although the contemporary educational discourses in the 19th century considered educational punishment one of the most effective means of education, and a though it was frequently used in the educational practice, its history in the German-speaking ...
Heinze, Carsten
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