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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:: ), Edward Ffrench Bromhead (1789-1855), George Peacock (1791-1858), and other students to form the

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , biographer of Powell's brilliant colleague in geology Grove Karl Gilbert, suggests Powell had inherited his

An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

Creator:: Kinch, Michael P.
Abstract:: At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 277. A reprint of the 1604 English translation by Edward Grimstone. 10Manasseh Cutler T1742-18231 "An

Bridging the gap : the problem of vertebrate ancestry, 1859-1875

Creator:: Beeson, Roberta Jane
Abstract:: Determination of the Vertebrate pedigree was a particularly enigmatic problem for evolutionary morphologists of the early post-Darwinian period. At that time, practically no characteristics were known by which the Vertebrates could be linked to any of the other animal groups. Up to the 1850's, most research in embryology and anatomy...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Edward Stuart Russell, Form and Function, a Contri- bution to the History of Animal Morphology (London: J

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:: ), Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), John McCrady (1831-1881), Alpheus S. Packard (1839-1905), Frederick W

Henry Augustus Rowland and his electromagnetic researches

Creator:: Miller, John D. (John David)
Abstract:: This analysis concerns the life and scientific work of Henry Augustus Rowland (1848-1901), organizer and the first chairman of the physics department at The Johns Hopkins University in 1876. Special materials used in this research included three pieces of Rowland's experimental apparatus which are extant in the Smithsonian Institution Division...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . He most of all wished to be "a professor of Physics," his drafting teacher, Samuel Edward Warren (b

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

History and analysis of the creation research society

Creator:: Elliott, William E.
Abstract:: The resurgence of creationism the past few years has been led by advocates of recent-creationism. These individuals, a minority among creationists in general, argue that the entire universe was created approximately 10,000 years ago in one six-day period of time. Recent-creationists support their position by appealing to the Genesis account...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of popular support it en- joyed.' 'Edward Larson, Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

Creator:: Misso, Brent W.
Abstract:: Early nineteenth-century America witnessed social change which significantly altered the structure of human relationships. Out of this transformation came new configurations of gender and sexuality which colored relations between the sexes well into the twentieth century. But these gender prescriptions did not merely serve to pattern male/female interactions, they informed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Edward Tilt.4 But equally revealing is the other portion of the gender equation which has to a

The determination of pyridoxal phosphate by the measurement of ¹⁴Co₂ enzymatically released from tyrosine-1-¹⁴C

Creator:: Woodring, Muriel Josepha
Abstract:: The increasing knowledge of the significance of vitamin B₆ in human metabolic processes has emphasized the importance of developing reliable means of assessing nutritional status with respect to this vitamin. One possible approach to this end is the measurement of pyridoxal phosphate in blood or plasma, particularly since this phosphorylated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

John Wesley Powell : science and reform in a positive context

An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

Bridging the gap : the problem of vertebrate ancestry, 1859-1875

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

Henry Augustus Rowland and his electromagnetic researches

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

History and analysis of the creation research society

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

The determination of pyridoxal phosphate by the measurement of ¹⁴Co₂ enzymatically released from tyrosine-1-¹⁴C

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