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Comments Regarding "On the Nature of Science" [PDF]
Physics in Canada, Vol. 64, No. 3 (2008), p7-8, 2008 An attempt to redefine science in the 21st century (BK Jennings, On the Nature of Science, Physics in Canada, 63(7) 2007) has abandoned traditional notions of natural law and objective reality, blurred the distinctions between natural science and natural history, elevated Occam's razor from an epistemological preference to a scientific principle, and ...
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Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter Fall 2018 [PDF]
, 2018 In this issue: Political Science majors Shaman Kirkland and Hamdia Ahmed help organize March for Our Lives New World Languages Options Screening of the film “Of Many: Then and Now” and moderated discussion with Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif (
Department of History and Political Science, University of Southern Maine
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The Role of Astronomy in the History of Science [PDF]
arXiv, 2002 We discuss the extent to which the visibility of the heavens was a necessary condition for the development of science, with particular reference to the measurement of time. Our conclusion is that while astronomy had significant importance, the growth of most areas of science was more heavily influenced by the accuracy of scientific instruments, and ...
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Wikipedia as a tool for contemporary history of science: A case study on CRISPR. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Benjakob O +9 more
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Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Celebrates its Fiftieth Anniversary [PDF]
Notices of the AMS. 54 (2007), 1512-1514, 2008 This paper describes briefly history and current state of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, the biggest research mathematical institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences located east to Ural mountains.
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The Paranoid Style in American History of Science [PDF]
, 2012 Historian Richard Hofstadter’s observations about American cold-war politics are used to contextualize Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and argue that substantive claims about the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific change ...
Reisch, George
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The History and Science of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1. [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2023 Breiteneder H, Kraft D.
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On The Theoretical Problematic of Arabic Physical Science Or Why Did Arabic Science Fail To Achieve The Copernican Revolution? [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 A Hegelian version of the concept of problematic is used to investigate the underlying theoretical unity and structure of Arabic physical science (physics, astronomy and chemistry). A contradictory triad (associated with Platonism, Aristotelian philosophy and Ptolemaic science) is identified at the heart of the Arabic project for physical science.
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Aryabhata's Root Extraction Methods [PDF]
Indian Journal of History of Science, 42.2 (2007) 149-161, 2006 We investigate the mathematics behind 1500 year old root extraction methods presented by Aryabhata in his famous mathematical treatise "Aryabhatiya". Also, we look at their computational complexity.
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