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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"popularization of science"”.
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
The purpose of this study is to examine how English natural philosophers of the seventeenth centuryin particular, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) considered and assessed the personal traits of skill and experience and the significance of these characteristics to the practice of seventeenth-century …
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“Socialism of sentiment:” Culture, progress and community in the early Romanian left 1870-1914
… questions the traditional assumption of the absence of an indigenous socialist tradition in Romania prior to the Soviet takeover in 1944 by exploring the cultural and intellectual history of early socialism between 1880 and 1914. Moving away from the unimpressive political and …
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The legitimation of science in the early German enlightenment Leipzig, ca. 1687-1750
The legitimation of science as the most authoritative form of human knowledge is the result of complex literary and socio-political processes. In the course of the eighteenth century, lay people came to see science as an authority beyond criticism, whose norms are value-neutral, self-evident and …
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
… health and collective well-being because of what I call the “telescopic perspective.” This mode of thinking connected a nation of eaters (and drinkers) from the level of the international food trade all the way down to the vitamins that nourished their cells. It combined a positivist …