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John Wesley Powell : science and reform in a positive context

Creator:

Zernel, John Joseph, 1945-

Abstract:

John Wesley Powell worked actively for public land system reform while a director of geographical and geological surveys in the West from 1869 to 1894. Although this has won him acclaim as a conservationist, the basis of Powell's linkage of reform with scientific work is poorly understood. A study of...

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Dissertation

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, 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1883). 7 Defence and General Welfare, Mary C. Rabbitt is
William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:

Taylor, H. Terry

Abstract:

In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...

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Masters Thesis
Norbert Wiener and the growth of negative feedback in scientific explanation : with a proposed research program of "cybernetic analysis"

Creator:

Hellman, Walter Daniel

Abstract:

Negative feedback has become ubiquitous in science both as a technique and as a conceptual tool. As a technique, negative feedback has a long history; devices based in its use were made in antiquity. It has only been during the last century, however, that rigorous quantitiative methods have become associated...

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Dissertation