Browsing by Subject "History of Science."
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AIR FORCE IMAGES OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT POLICIES.
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Architects of the self: Social scientists and the construction of the individual in postwar America.
(2004)American social science experienced unprecedented institutional growth during and after the Second World War due in part to the increased need for techniques in human resource management. As a result, scientific representations ... -
An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science.
(2000)By 1918 American astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885--1972) had completed the work that established his reputation as a scientist and secured his place as one of the most important contributors to the development of twentieth-century ... -
Building the foundation for an American mathematical community: The Bowditch generation, 1800--1838.
(2002)The first third of the nineteenth century was an important period for the development of American mathematics: Nathaniel Bowditch emerged as a new leader with an international reputation; general topic scientific journals ... -
The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
(2009-01)The antebellum years in the United States were marked by vigorous debates about national identity in which issues of hierarchy, authority, and democratic values came under intense scrutiny. During this period, a prime ... -
Confessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Optics
(2022-05)This dissertation explores the investigation and explanation of optics among prominent members of the Society of Jesus during the early modern period. In doing so it aims to explain why it was that optics became one of the ... -
Creating indigital peripheries: The Bureau of Indian Affairs, geographic information systems, and the digitization of Indian Country.
(2006)The uneven development of GIS as the BIA represents a core-periphery geography. Since the nineteenth century, North American Indians have encountered the implementation of new technologies used to meet the goals and ... -
Cyrus Kingsbury :
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Eighteenth-century earthquake theories :
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The exact sciences in Lutheran Germany and Tudor England.
(2005)The final chapters shift focus to England, where a revival of mathematical education was underway by mid-century. In this section, astronomy is defined broadly to include astronomical navigation, since the potential economic ... -
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ... -
Exploring the transition from a pre-modern to modern conceptualization of the natural world: Implications for a more connected approach to contemporary education.
(2006)Modernist science is a discourse that separates us externally from our environment, socially from one another, and internally within ourselves. This study not only examines the role education plays in developing our ... -
Fables in Natural History: An Examination of the Allegorical in the Development of Natural History Texts
(2024-05-10)The Latin bestiary is known not only for its striking illustrations but also for the extensive religious commentary which accompanies the description of nearly every animal. While there is debate over whether the bestiary ... -
Fancy and imagination: Cultivating sympathy and envisioning the natural world for the modern child.
(2006)This dissertation examines the attitudes that scientists, educators, and nature-writers held toward fancy and imagination in nature-study and nature books for children around the turn of the century. In a period where ... -
Galileo’s World: Driving Library Exhibitions to New Heights with State-of-the-art Technology
(2015-12-15)The University of Oklahoma is celebrating its 125th anniversary and, in recognition, the University Libraries launched the exhibition “Galileo’s World: An Exhibition Without Walls.” The exhibition covers three campuses, ... -
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ... -
Home only long enough: Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, American science, nationalism, and philanthropy, 1886--1908.
(2003)American Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary tried for twenty-six years to be the first man to reach the North Pole. The dissertation focuses on Peary's stateside efforts to raise money for his multiple expeditions. During his ... -
Jean Antoine Nollet and experimental natural philosophy in eighteenth-century France /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)Nollet saw his work as part of a collective process that pre-supposed standardization of instruments and procedures. He thus rejected anything that was controversial or that could not be settled in a cabinet de physique. ...