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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...