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A window into cultures of scientific practice drawing on the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Joshua Nall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108498272
A window into cultures of scientific practice drawing on the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Liba Chaia Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 052186609X
Charts the Whipple Museum's history and focuses on particular scientific instruments in its collections.
Author : Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Nick Hopwood
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
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Highlights the role of three-dimensional wax models cast by Adolf and Friedrich Ziegler. Discusses how the models were made and used.
Author : Joshua Nall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822986612
Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.
Author : Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521113709
This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.
Author : Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : Joshua Nall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108581307
In this book the diverse objects of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science's internationally renowned collection are brought into sharp relief by a number of highly regarded historians of science in fourteen essays. Each chapter focuses on a specific instrument or group of objects, ranging from an English medieval astrolabe to a modern agricultural 'seed source indicator' to a curious collection of plaster chicken heads. The contributors employ a range of historiographical and methodological approaches to demonstrate the various ways in which the material culture of science can be researched and understood. The essays show how the study of scientific objects - including instruments and models - offers a window into cultures of scientific practice not afforded by textual sources alone. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Lothar Meyer
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Atoms
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