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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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History of science and the Science Museum

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1997
Whereas 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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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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A History of Islamic Law

, 2019
Lawyers, according to Edmund Burke, are bad historians. He was referring to an unwillingness, rather than an inaptitude, on the part of early nineteenth-century English lawyers to concern themselves with the past: for contemporary jurisprudence was a ...
N. Coulson
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Science and History of Science

1990
Michele 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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History of Science

2020
Although Western science has its roots in Greece, mathematics and writing as developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt were key to its development. During the Dark Ages of the medieval period, the Islamic Byzantine Empire preserved and enhanced the knowledge of the Greco-Roman cultures and scientific advances from China, including paper, continued.
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