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Cross Cultural Medical and Natural Knowledge Exchange on the Mississippi Frontier between Gideon Lincecum and the Choctaw Nation: 1818 to 1833
(2016-12-16)
This paper closely investigates the natural and medical exchange of knowledge and its social and historical context between Gideon Lincecum (1793 – 1874) and his Choctaw neighbors in Mississippi between the years 1818 and ...
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, ...
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 ...
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
(2016-05)
Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ...