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Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Creator:: Lovestone, Lauren R.
Abstract:: During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: phenomenologist: Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (1908- 1961). Merleau-Ponty explicitly defines phenomenology

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: HahnAndreM2018 AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Andre

In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

Creator:: Hahn, Linda
Abstract:: This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: where adaptation of organisms was part of God's design, and Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed in

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: earliest experiments with gasses; Gay- Lussac studied with Claude Louis Berthollet (1748 – 1822) who did

Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

Creator:: Johnson, Kristin Renee
Abstract:: Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: disease see Claude Quetel, History of Syphilis (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 11

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Andre M. Hahn for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in History of Science

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

Creator:: Caulkins, Tamara L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Andy Hahn, Eric Reddington, Brenda Kellar, Barbara Canavan, and Claude Bullock, for camaraderie and

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Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

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

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