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The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

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Caulkins, Tamara L.

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During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...

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Daniel Eddy, “How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity,” Osiris 29, no. 1 (2014
Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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Canavan, Barbara C.

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By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...

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Science,” Osiris 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 1–16, 6. 9 Paul Ewald, Plague Time: The New Germ Theory
Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

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Kellar, Brenda M.

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The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...

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Enlightened Societies," Osiris, no.1 (2012): 208. 34 Alan I. Marcus, Science As Service Establishing and