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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"history of science"”.
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History of science and technology.
… to much existing analyses) the development of programming methods does not fit an ideal of "progress." I focus on the rise of two fundamental computing problems: complexity, or the proliferation of people and methods; and verification, which is the (in)ability to verify that a program …
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
Historians of science express widely divergent interpretations of the significance of the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) to the history of science. An examination of the history of science reveals two basic schools of thought about Bruno. Specifically, historians of science disagree …
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Taxonomy and the History of Science: A Critical Analysis of Four Historic Publications
<p>The history of taxonomy is not usually taught in modern biology classes, but it is necessary to understand the history of classification and science as a whole in order to better understand the processes of classification and thinking that are commonly taught at the college level. Through the …
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Utilizing the History of Science to Enhance Student Understanding and Engagement: A Compilation of Earth Science Lesson Plans
Classroom research has shown that the history of science can be used to enhance student understanding of scientific concepts and processes, as well as the context in which science is explored. Successful methods for incorporating the history of science in to the classroom can also improve student …
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An Analysis of the Model and Enacted Curricula for a History of Science Course in a Nationwide Teacher Education Program
… teacher preparation, includes Perspectives on Science and Mathematics, a class designed to share content about the History of Science (HOS) with preservice teachers. UTeach provides a model curriculum as a sample for instructors teaching Perspectives. The purpose of this study was (a) to …
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Uma contribuição à História das Mulheres nas Ciências no Brasil: Heloísa Alberto Torres, a primeira Diretora do Museu Nacional/UFRJ
The issue of doing science for women in a markedly masculine world, behind the scenes scientific, and its trajectories built in an environment based on male values and standards, leads to an analysis of women's participation in the history of science in Brazil in the twentieth century. It uses as …
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Characterizing radio channels : the science and technology of propagation and interference, 1900-1935
… wireless experiment in 1900 marked the beginning of a communication revolution that transformed the open space above the earth into channels of information flow. This dissertation grapples with the historical conditions that gave rise to such a transformation: the studies of radio-wave propagation …
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A Theory of Scientific Change
At any moment of history, there are theories that the scientific community of the time accepts as the best available descriptions of reality. In addition, there are methods which the scientific community of the time employs in theory assessment. This set of all accepted theories and all employed …
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A Plan for Managing the Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library
… by Bell’s family in 1970s.</p> <p>The prominence of both Bell and Henry in the 19th century history of science and the close professional connection between the two figures underlines the importance of making the collection accessible to the public.</p> <p>This project focuses on three major …
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Natural Visions: Photography and ecological knowledge 1895-1939
This thesis is about ecology as visual science, and the role of photography in establishing and promoting ecology in Britain, as a new kind of knowledge and as a new scientific discipline, between around 1895 and 1939. In the historiography of early ecological science, the roles of photography and …
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A Study of miniature methods of terahertz spectroscopy
Compared to the history of science, spectroscopy at terahertz frequencies is a relatively recent development. Terahertz instruments were initially large and inefficient due to the characteristics of available technology. With progress in materials science and miniature circuit manufacturing …
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The Rhetoric of Natural History and Philip Henry Gosse
The objective of this thesis is to re-contextualize the genre of natural history writing along with rhetorical theory to delineate an argument for examining the rhetoric of natural history as a method for exploring the spatial, symbolic, and ecological relationships between collected specimens and …
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The influence of an inherence heuristic on scientific explanation
… and adults (N = 1,455) explained outcomes of unfamiliar experiments in physics, biology, and chemistry predominantly in terms of inherent features. These inherence-biased explanations exhibited multiple signatures of heuristic reasoning (e.g., they decreased with age and time spent …
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Novel potentials for the simulation of polyethylene and other polymeric systems
Throughout the history of science, people have been developing models to explain reality. The advent of computer technology has made it possible to devise and implement incredibly complicated numerical models in a relatively short period of time; for example, three-body problems, impossible to …
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Η "φυσική" του Νικηφόρου Θεοτόκη σταθμός στην επιστημονική σκέψη τον 18ο αιώνα
… is placed in a more general trend in the studies of history of science in Greece, which has focused its interest on the treatment of the scientific evolution during the so-called "Greek enlightment" (1750-1821). The particular subject which is examined is the "Stichia Phisikis" (=Elements of …
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Interdisciplinaridade na pós-graduação: estudo de seu impacto na produção de teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Analyzes of the impact of interdisciplinary teaching in postgraduate student production, using as sampling the thesis and dissertations of the Program of History of Science, Techniques and Epistemology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Considering the thematic varieties of the …
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Competing paradigms for explaining the etiology of human male homosexual orientation: a case study in the application of the methodology of scientific research programs
… This thesis is a case study in the application of the principles of the methodology of scientific research programs to a contemporary scientific debate: the debate concerning the causes and origins of human male homosexual orientation. It begins by identifying two major research programs that …
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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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Mildred Trotter: A Biography and Alternative History of Physical Anthropology
… Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology. The monograph incorporates a revised and expanded version of a 2019 peer-reviewed journal article, “Women’s Experiences in Early Physical Anthropology.” As a unified whole, this interdisciplinary work brings …
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