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Charles Babbage, philosopher, reformer, inventor : a history of his contributions to science

Creator:: Bell, Walter Lyle
Abstract:: This history concerns the scientific contributions of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) to mathematics, to the invention of calculating machines, and machine tools, to the development of scientific ideas through a wide variety of scientific investigations and his involvement in several different scientific reforms. Babbage considered himself a philosopher in the broadest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: SCIENCE Red acted for Privacy Abstract approved James Bkrsiokes Spencer i This history concerns the

The development of the chlorinity-salinity concept in oceanography

Creator:: Wallace, William J.
Abstract:: This study traces the historical foundations of the concept of constant ionic proportionality and the equation (Salinity [S%₀] = 1.805 Chlorinity [Cl%₀] + 0.030) which has been in general use in oceanography since 1902 until 1969 and which is based upon this constancy, The notion that the constituents present in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -SALINITY CONCEPT IN OCEANOGRAM Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Vert J. Moris This study traces

Reactions of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, to electromagnetic radiations in the visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray ranges

Creator:: Clark, Ervil Delwyn
Abstract:: The behavioral repertoire of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, was investigated to test for the occurrence of any immediate response to various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Monochromatic radiations in the visible and ultraviolet spectral regions were produced by a 150-watt xenon lamp or a ZOO watt mercury vapor lamp...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: PrivacyAbstract approved: Donal/J. vICImeljcirf I The behavioral repertoire of the sea anemone, Anthopleura

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: / J. Brookes Spencer Negative feedback has become ubiquitous in science both as a technique

The antibiotic discovery era (1940-1960) : vancomycin as an example of the era

Creator:: McGraw, Donald J.
Abstract:: An examination of the technical and historical literature concerning the discovery and development of antibiotics suggests the possible existence of an era of discovery. This era appears to have a well-defined beginning (about 1940) and a well-defined close (about 1960). It is the purpose of this dissertation to examine the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 24H. W. Florey and E. P. Abraham, "The Work on Penicillin at Oxford, " J. Hist. Med. , 6(1951), 304

J.H. Woodger and the emergence of supra-empirical orders of discussion in early twentieth century biology

Creator:: Allen, Marshall William
Abstract:: This investigation attempts to demonstrate that the development of the early 20th century biological enterprise involved a striving for a unifying theoretical perspective. A skeletal substantiation of this is given by an overview of early 20th century biology in which some biologists began recognizing a multiplicity of different orders of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: interesting examples of this are E. S. Russell (1887-1954) and J. S. Haldane (1860-1936). Russell, a

William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

Creator:: Benson, Keith Rodney
Abstract:: The major historical studies that have examined American biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: descriptive work provided essential material for the work of the experimental biologists. As E. B. Wilson

Aspects of the autecology of the plethodontid salamander, Aneides ferreus (Cope)

Creator:: McKenzie, Donald Samuel
Abstract:: Laboratory experiments and simulated field conditions were utilized to gain a better understanding of the ecology of the clouded salamander. Animals collected in western Oregon were utilized for studies in habitat selection, where it was shown that there was a significant pattern of selection of litter types (rock, bark, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Thanks are also due to Drs. Edmund 0. Brodie, James L. Kezer and Thomas R. Darrow for their aid in

John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

Creator:: Lester, Jacob Franklin
Abstract:: Modern science was produced by a Christian society, and although science has had an effect on Christianity, it could not itself remain unaffected. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the subject of evolution was as much a religious as a scientific issue. The battle line was drawn and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: it was affected by this trend: Thomas J. Tracy, "The American Attitude Toward American Literature

Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

Creator:: Hagen, Joel Bartholemew
Abstract:: During the years between 1930 and 1950 a number of attempts were made to introduce techniques and ideas from cytology, ecology, and genetics into the field of taxonomy. Advocates of this "experimental taxonomy" believed that cytological, ecological, and genetic techniques would provide a rigorous, objective methodology to replace the traditional...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), pp. 63-66; Richard E. Blackwelder, Taxonomy (New York

Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), scientist, teacher, Christian : a biographical study of the connection of science with religion in antebellum America

Creator:: Schoepflin, Gary Lee
Abstract:: A biographical study of Denison Olmsted, focusing upon his own Christian world view and its connection with his various activities in science, supports the view that religion served as a significant factor in the promotion of science in America during this time period. Olmsted taught physics, meteorology and astronomy at...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Paul L. Farber, for encouraging me to pursue in earnest my interest in science and religion; to Dr. J

Automated science curriculum : an experimental science program

Creator:: Hutchinson, John Stuart
Abstract:: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine statistically the effects of an automated science curriculum on the science learnings of eighth grade students. This curriculum involved the use of Keysort cards as a flexible handbook for teachers and included in the directions for use a teaching method which...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : - to Dr. Stanley E. Williamson who provided inspiration during the entire doctoral program. - to Dr

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: gen- etics and evolution have been presented by Edward J. Pfeifer, Charles E. Rosenberg and Arnold

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Charles Babbage, philosopher, reformer, inventor : a history of his contributions to science

The development of the chlorinity-salinity concept in oceanography

Reactions of the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica, to electromagnetic radiations in the visible, ultraviolet, and X-ray ranges

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

The antibiotic discovery era (1940-1960) : vancomycin as an example of the era

J.H. Woodger and the emergence of supra-empirical orders of discussion in early twentieth century biology

William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

Aspects of the autecology of the plethodontid salamander, Aneides ferreus (Cope)

John Fiske's philosophy of science : the union of science and religion through the principle of evolution

Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), scientist, teacher, Christian : a biographical study of the connection of science with religion in antebellum America

Automated science curriculum : an experimental science program

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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