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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Science--Historiography"”.
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… and behaviours—derived from the biological sciences and their impact in Britain through the Edwardian and interwar eras. Using a variety of published and archival sources, the thesis makes three main contributions to scholarship. Firstly, it identifies tensions between narratives of …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… and the military? During the post-Sputnik science boom, many elite physicists used their policy influence to encourage government support for scientific research and to secure stronger arms control measures, an effort that culminated in the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty in …
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Race in the Scientific Imagination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Brazil and Cuba
This dissertation examines the instrumental role played by race in the scientific conceptions of society at the turn of the Twentieth Century in Brazil and Cuba. The examination of scientific rhetoric in the work of Euclides da Cunha and Fernando Ortiz, as well as a large number of photographs, …
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A Comparative Study of Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī's Texts and Models on the Configuration of the Heavens
… particularly productive genre of hay'a or the science of the configuration of the universe. All three of Shīrāzī's works that are studied in this thesis belong to this genre of astronomical writing. These works are the Nihāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk (1281 C. E.), al-Tuḥfa al-shāhīya fī …