Editorial: Woods or Trees? Ideas and Actors in the History of Science [PDF]
Isis, 1988 History of ...
Rosenberg, Charles
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, 2000 A ‘late developer’ argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s ...
Finkelstein, Gabriel
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Hempelian and Kuhnian approaches in the philosophy of medicine: the Semmelweis case [PDF]
, 2005 Semmelweis?s investigations of puerperal fever are some of the most interesting in the history of medicine. This paper considers Hempel?s (1966) analysis of the Semmelweis case.
Gillies, DA
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Introduction [BJHS special section: book history and the sciences] [PDF]
, 2000 The expanding interest in book history over recent years has heralded the coming together of an interdisciplinary research community drawing scholars from a variety of literary, historical and cultural studies. Moreover, with a growing body of literature,
Topham, J.R.
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A view from the industrial age [PDF]
, 2004 Like the constructivist approach to the history of science, the new history of reading has shifted attention from disembodied ideas to the underlying material culture and the localized practices by which it is apprehended.
Topham, J.R.
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Más allá del positivismo : una interpretación lakatosiana de la enseñanza de las ciencias [PDF]
, 1994 The history of science shows that positivism was the dominant philosophy from about the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The main objective of this article is to present a critique of positivist ideas and show how the new ...
Níaz, M.
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Schyłek metafory. Rzecz o księdze Natury [PDF]
, 2017 The book of nature expressed both the possibility of knowing/reading of nature and the relationship between the experimental science and other books, mainly the book of Revelation.
Sierotowicz, Tadeusz
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]
, 2013 Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan +4 more
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Ideas in the History of Nano/Miniaturization and (Quantum) Simulators: Feynman, Education and Research Reorientation in Translational Science [PDF]
Proceedings of The 19th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2015 Cultural history of nanominiaturization, computing, quantum computing and simulating is necessary to comprehend human character and place it in the whole of living beings. Ideas in the history of physics by Feynman, etc. are valued by the questions that generate.
Francisco Torrens, Gloria Castellano
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Global influences and local environments: Forestry and forest conservation in New Zealand, 1850s-1925. [PDF]
, 2010 This article examines the multiple factors that shaped the establishment of forest conservation and tree-planting in the colony of New Zealand. It presents a new perspective on forest history in New Zealand from the 1850s to the 1920s by examining the ...
Beattie, James John, Star, Paul
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