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The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

Creator:

Johnson, Kristin Renee

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In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...

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Masters Thesis

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: Maurice Martino Publishers, 1973 [1938]), and Christine Jackson, Bird Etchings: The Illustrators and
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...

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Dissertation

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. Elena Aronova, Christine von Oertzen, and David Sepkoski observe in their essay on “Historicizing Big