Browsing by Subject "History of Science"

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    • Ordering Wonder: Collections, Curators, and Showmen in Antebellum America 

      Burnes, James (2023-12-15)
      This dissertation explores the development and execution of five museum collections established between the 1793 opening of Charles Willson Peale’s museum in Philadelphia and the opening of the Smithsonian Institution as ...

    • Orion the Hunter 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Three stars in a row make up Orion s belt, within a rectangle of four bright stars representing his shoulders and feet. Since Orion's belt of three bright stars lies nearly upon the celestial equator, Orion is visible from ...

    • Pythagorean Solids: Five Regular Solids 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Throughout history the regular solids were a point of intrigue by astronomers, mathematicians, artists, and philosophers. The Pythagoreans proved that there are only five regular solids: the cube, triangle, octahedron, ...

    • Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World," includes a discussion about dropping balls from the mast of both a moving ship and a ship at rest in order to test the theory of inertia. If sailors actually had ...

    • SCIENCE, ENERGY AND KNOWLEDGE. AN ANALYSIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE SYNTHETIC FUELS IN THE 1970S AND 1980S 

      Gerali, Francesco (2017-08-01)
      Research breeds research. When the environment (politics, human and capital resources, and the demand for the good) is right, research activity compounds itself. The growth rate continues until research activity is at the ...

    • Surfacing Oil: The Oil Industry and Environmental Knowledge in the 20th Century United States 

      Slane, Cecilia (2023-08-04)
      In the 20th century United States, the oil industry expanded internationally, extracting in new environments with new technologies. Throughout this period, contemporary environmental knowledge shaped the oil industry’s ...

    • Weather or Not: First Crusader Conceptions of Meteorology and the Miraculous 

      Raffa, Kristin (2021-05-14)
      Recent historians of the First Crusade have written that appearances in the sky were important to crusaders because they were signs of divine approval, served a narrative function, and indicated God's plan of an upcoming ...

    • William of Ockham, Brevis summa libri Physicorum 

      Livesey, Steven; Purkaple, Brent; Ockham, William of (2018)
      A transcription of William of Ockham's "Brevis summa libri Physicorum," from a manuscript contained within Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d’Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer (BA) 317. The Brevis summa is fol. 44ra-61vb.

    • Wondertooneel: Women and Museums 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Levinus Vincent, a wealthy Dutch merchant with ties to the East Indies, created a spectacular 'Chamber of Wonders' natural history museum in Haarlem. Visiting dignitaries admired his museum, including Peter the Great and ...