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Creator:: Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Abstract:: Although oceanographers such as Roger Revelle are typically associated with key indicators of anthropogenic change, he and other scientists at midcentury had very different scientific priorities and ways of seeing the oceans. How can we join the narrative of the triumph of mathematical, dynamic oceanography with the environmental narrative? Dynamic...
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Full Text:: presented at the International Congress on History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Manchester, 27 July

Creator:: Sarasohn, Lisa T.
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Full Text:: the history of medicine, together with the correspondence that makes its context and its contents

Creator:: Farber, Paul Lawrence
Abstract:: No abstract available.
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Full Text:: The Development of Taxidermy and the History of Ornithology The

Creator:: Farber, Paul Lawrence
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Full Text:: Buffon's concept of species see Paul L. Farber, "Buffon and the Concept of Species," Journal of the

Creator:: Sarasohn, Lisa T.
Abstract:: 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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Full Text:: Hobbes, and the Mechanical World-View," Journal of the History of Ideas, 1985, 46:363-380; and Sarasohn

Creator:: Nye, Mary Jo
Abstract:: 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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Full Text:: ," Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1972, 13:405; and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, "Star Scientists in a

Creator:: Nye, Mary Jo
Abstract:: Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience. This essay examines approaches typical of different genres of scientific biography, including historians’...
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Full Text:: Use of Writing Lives of Recent Scientists?” in The Historiography of Recent Science, Medicine, and

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