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History of science and the Science Museum
The British Journal for the History of Science, 1997Whereas the academic discipline of the history of science has made enormous strides in half a century, ironically, recognition from without has often been disappointing. Private success has not been matched by public status. The work of the Science Museum in London as one of the few widely accessible windows into the discipline is ...
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The History of Science and the Sciences of Medicine
Osiris, 1995Considerer que la pratique de la medecine fait partie de l'histoire de la medecine, et non de l'histoire des sciences, n'est pas une theorie soutenable, car l'histoire de la medecine est une histoire politique, sociale et economique comme l'histoire des ...
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History of the Science of Dialysis
American Journal of Nephrology, 1997Thomas Graham (1805-1869), who is credited with seminal work on the nature of the diffusion of gases and of osmotic forces in fluids, can properly be called the father of modern dialysis. His apparatus to study the behavior of biological fluids through a semipermeable membrane clearly presaged the artificial kidney in clinical use today.
C W, Gottschalk, S K, Fellner
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History of Science Today, 2.: History of Science in the Netherlands
The British Journal for the History of Science, 1987After Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff had passed away on 1 March 1911, his pupil Charles Marinus van Deventer (1860–1931) wrote a very personal ‘in memoriam’ in the Dutch literary periodical De Gids, pointing out that van't Hoff had merely been interested in scientific facts, not in the people discovering these facts. Van't Hoff considered the study of the
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The History of Science of Canada
The British Journal for the History of Science, 1988Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind
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Science and History of Science
1990Michele Besso died in Geneva on 15 March 1955. A few days later, Besso’s son and sister received from Princeton a letter of condolence from Albert Einstein, which contained the following words: “He has preceded me by a brief time in taking leave of this strange world. But that means nothing.
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Kuhn and the History of Science
2019The article examines Thomas Kuhn's work in the history of science with special attention to its relevance to subsequent developments in social epistemology. The article begins with a discussion of Kuhn's historical work, and the so-called historical turn in philosophy of science.
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History of the Social Sciences
Osiris, 1985A FORCEFUL ANSWER to the question why anyone should be interested 1A1. in the history of the social sciences in America was provided three decades ago. In his classic The Organization Man (1956), William H. Whyte, Jr., instructed an entire generation in the realities of organizational life in America.
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Isis, 1945
THIS essay will give a concise survey of the more important works in the history of science published during the last few years in Sweden. For natural reasons they are largely concerned with Swedish conditions, but even so they often seem to be of a more general interest, either because they deal with scholars whose works have achieved international ...
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THIS essay will give a concise survey of the more important works in the history of science published during the last few years in Sweden. For natural reasons they are largely concerned with Swedish conditions, but even so they often seem to be of a more general interest, either because they deal with scholars whose works have achieved international ...
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The History of Science and the Science of History: Critique of Apriorism
1980In emphasizing the role of reasoning in scientific rationality in the last chapter, our discussion was carried out in a context where the reasoning was taking the form of reason as opposed to unreason and was being distinguished (but not opposed to or separated from) method and rhetoric, as other elements of scientific rationality.
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