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  • Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

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    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...
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    was perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences from 1942 to 1976. Many younger French

  • Historical Sources of Science-as-Social-Practice: Michael Polanyi's Berlin

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    Nye, Mary Jo
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    Historians and sociologists of science often identify the efflorescence of social stud ies of science with the work of postwar American intellectuals such as Robert K. Merton and Thomas S. Kuhn. They often also refer to the views of Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) on the roles of tacit knowledge, apprenticeship, social...
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    . Scientific practice: Theories and stories of doing physics (Chicago, 1995). Also, Stephen Turner, The social

  • Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society

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    Sarasohn, Lisa T.
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    This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal...
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    Exploratory Approach," in Patronage in the Renaissance, ed. G. F. Lytle and Stephen Orgel (Princeton, N.J

  • Soviet Atheism and Russian Orthodox Strategies of Resistance, 1917–1932

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    Husband, William B.
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    When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917, party leaders under-stood well that a thorough social transformation lay between them and the full realization of long-term revolutionary objectives. The seizure of political authority and even a proposed redistribution of economic goods and services would not themselves create citizens...
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    Other Episodes of French Cultural History (New York, 1984), and The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in