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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"History of Science and Ideas"”.
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Reaching for the Stars : Studies in the History of Swedish Stellar and Nebular Astronomy, 1860–1940
This study considers astrophysics, stellar and nebular astronomy in Sweden. Emphasis is on the role of scientific technologies and practice, and the emergence of a modern observational astronomy, supplanting classical astronomy as the most vital field of Swedish astronomy. The introduction of …
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Ombyggnad pågår : Lunds tekniska högskola och ingenjörsrollens förändring
This study deals with the transformation of institutions of higher technical education in Sweden. It situates those processes in the context of educational reforms during the second half of the 20th century. Lund Institute of Technology, Lunds tekniska högskola (LTH), is focused upon. It was …
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John Dee and the 'Sidney Group' : cosmopolitics and Protestant 'activism' in the 1570s
The life and thought of John Dee (1527-1608) have in recent years received considerable attention from historians. His nineteenth-century reputation as a deluded (and deluding) crank has been dispelled and he is seen now as the proponent of an immensely complex system of philosophy which made …
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield …
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Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815
Between 1648 and 1815, Swedish-Pomerania, at the Baltic shore, belonged to the crown of Sweden. It was both a part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and the Swedish realm. The port town of Stralsund played a key roll in the Swedish economy at the Baltic Sea, whereas the university town of …
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Ärftlighetsforskningens gränser : Individer och institutioner i framväxten av svensk genetik
In the first part of the 20th century genetics developed into an important research field. The aim of this study is to follow and analyse the transformation of genetics from its origin within an agricultural context to an academic discipline in Sweden (ca. 1900-1960). Mendelism was introduced as a …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… French revue Lignes (1987-present) as its object of study to provide a new account of French intellectual culture over the last twenty-five years. Whilst there are now many studies covering the role of such revues throughout the twentieth-century, the majority of such monographs extend no further …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
Histories of medieval astronomy have brought to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments …