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The knowing world: A new global history of science

History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching, 2019
This article proposes a new global approach to the history of science centered on questions of geopolitics, historical consciousness, and cultural identity.
James Delbourgo
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Shared ground: Between environmental history and the history of science

History of science; an annual review of literature, research and teaching, 2019
Recent years have witnessed a significant expansion in the number of studies positioned at the intersection of the history of science and environmental history.
Mark D. Hersey, Jeremy A Vetter
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Capital in the twenty-first century: a multidimensional approach to the history of capital and social classes.

British Journal of Sociology, 2013
I am most grateful to the editors of the British Journal of Sociology for putting together such an impressive set of review papers about my book. I am very honoured by the very thoughtful essays written by such a distinguished group of scholars coming ...
T. Piketty
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History of Science and American Science Policy

Isis, 2008
Historians of science have participated actively in debates over American science policy in the post-World War II period in a variety of ways, but their impact has been more to elucidate general concepts than to effect specific policy changes. Personal experiences, in the case of the debate over global warming, have demonstrated both the value and the ...
Zuoyue, Wang, Naomi, Oreskes
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History of Science or History of Learning

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2019
AbstractThis essay presents analogies between the development of historical writing and of physical science during the early modern period. Its necessarily spotty coverage runs from the mid sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth. The analogies include arising from practical concerns; preferring material documents and experimental ...
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History of Science in Physics Teaching

Science Education, 2021
Wagner Tadeu Jardim, Andreia Guerra, Hermann Schiffer   +2 more
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History of Science Today, 2.: History of Science in the Netherlands

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1987
After 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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A personal history of sensory science

Food, Culture, and Society: an international journal of multidisciplinary research, 2019
This article traces the history of Sensory Science in America. It starts with the roots of psychophysics in nineteenth-century Germany, following from Weber to Fechner to Wundt to Titchener to Boring and finally to SS Stevens.
H. Heymann
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