Browsing by Subject "History of Science."
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“Mapping the New Mental World Created by Radio": Media Messages, Cultural Politics, and Cantril and Allport's The Psychology of Radio
(1998)During the 1930s a number of interesting critiques of science and society emerged in the social sciences in general, and in psychology in particular. One example of this trend is The Psychology of Radio (1935), authored ... -
Masculine methods: travel narratives and scientific authority in early Victorian Britain
(2022-08-04)Feminist formulations have rightly impacted the history of science. In this thesis, I show how in the context of 19th Century Britain, men of science appealed to contemporary norms of masculinity to claim masculine virtues ... -
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ... -
Of birds, guano, and man: William Vogt's "Road to Survival".
(2005)William Vogt's best-selling and influential neo-Malthusian text Road to Survival articulated the conservation sensibility of his day and was literally read around the world. Vogt (1902--1968) came to his conclusions about ... -
ORAZIO GRASSI AND A 1623 TREATISE ON THE SPHERE: ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS AT THE COLLEGIO ROMANO IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2016-12)The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus ... -
Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810
(2014-05)From antiquity, parasites, and especially worms, were thought to be responsible for human suffering and disease. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, worms became the subject of extensive scientific ... -
The police in different voices: Isaac Newton and his programme of purification.
(2005)This work positions Isaac Newton's three areas of inquiry---Natural Philosophy, alchemy, and theology---as three inter-locked "literacies, " each with its own corrupt text and purifying method of reading. Newton's natural ... -
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
(2009-06)In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum ... -
Pseudo-Masha’allah, On the Astrolabe: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation
(2022-05)The astrolabe was the most important scientific instrument in the Middle Ages, and the treatise ascribed to Māshā’allāh (but not actually by him) is the most important text on the subject. It was much copied and survives ... -
A reexamination of the inception, development, and Newtonianism of David Hartley's Observations on man.
(1981)In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers extended the methods and concepts of contemporary natural philosophy to their study of mind. One of the earliest to accept the Newtonian conception of man as analogous ... -
Science in the everyday world - Why perspectives from the history of science matter
(2008-07)The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and ... -
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Transformist Theory
(2021)Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is well known as a pre-Darwinian proponent of evolution; however, comparatively little has been published on his views of human physiology and development. This paper argues that the will was of ... -
Staudinger, Carothers, and the emergence of macromolecular chemistry /
(1983)Conceptually and epistemologically, Staudinger's macromolecular theory was rooted in the traditional organic-structural approach to polymers, while his opponents vigorously supported the aggregate theory of colloid-polymers, ... -
Theories of comets to the age of Laplace.
(2004)The basic question from which this project originated was simple: how did natural philosophers and astronomers define the nature and place of a new category of celestial objects---the comets---after Brahe's estimation of ... -
Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural order and historical contingency in a contested textual tradition.
(2000)Parts I and II together suggest that the language of biblical idiom fostered the expression of historical sensibilities in the tradition, although such idiom was never an essential characteristic of Theories of the Earth. ... -
Willy Ley, the Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science
(2014-05-08)This dissertation explores the life and career of Willy Ley, a science writer and popularizer of spaceflight technology in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. By following his various “campaigns” ...