Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. History
  4. History of science and technology
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

13575 results in History of science and technology

Page 539 of 679

  • BJH volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / July 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b8
    Print publication:
    July 1979
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh 1737–1747

  • Roger L. Emerson
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / July 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 154-191
    Print publication:
    July 1979

  • Several essays, articles, and papers have appeared during the last fifteen years which have shed light on the place and function of science in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century Scotland. Some have concentrated on ideological factors such as the increasing concerns with polite culture, improvement, and the reaction of the Scottish élite to the Act of Union. Others have noted the roles of Jacobites and Whigs in the production of a culture which was unique to Scotland. The generalist educational ideals held by Scots have been explored, as have their philosophical, methodological, and mathematical traditions. Another set of papers has fruitfully examined ‘the social role of knowledge’ and has attempted through studies of the politics of Scottish science and a consideration of its audience to show how the characteristics of local provincial society could influence if not ‘determine scientific activity, its social organization or intellectual structure’. Concerns with the institutionalization of scientific activities and the acceptance of new values have also led to studies of the universities, medical corporations, and societies (both adult and student) which provided focuses for scientific enquiry. All of these studies have emphasized the aspects of science north of the Tweed between about 1690 and 1830 which seem uniquely Scottish. No one would deny the value of these works but perhaps it is now time to redress the balance and to notice how typical much of the scientific work of the Scots was, and how easily it and the institutions through which it was pursued can be fitted into the wider context of the European Enlightenment.

  • Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species

  • Phillip R. Sloan
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / July 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 109-153
    Print publication:
    July 1979

  • The entry of time and history into biological systems of classification is perhaps the single most significant development in the history of biological systematics in the modern era. Darwin's claiming that descent is ‘… the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the natural system’, rather than seeing the answer in the multitude of previous attempts to resolve the problem in terms of morphological affinities, analogies, and complex relations of resemblance, marked the turning point in a long search into the meaning of biological taxonomy, and allowed the development of Darwin's insights by Haeckel, Plate and others into modern phylogenetic systematics.

  • BJH volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / July 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
    Print publication:
    July 1979
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • Obituary: Herbert Dingle, 2 August 1890–4 September 1978

  • W. A. Smeaton
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / July 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 242-243
    Print publication:
    July 1979
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Page 539 of 679