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13575 results in History of science and technology

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  • BJH volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 1979
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    March 1979
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  • From Design to Dissolution: Thomas Chalmers' Debt to John Robison

  • Crosbie Smith
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 1979
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    05 January 2009, pp. 59-70
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    March 1979

  • The claim that the nineteenth century was a period of major transition for the relation between theology and natural science has become a historical truism. With its implications for the design argument and the doctrines of divine providence, Darwin's theory of evolution has rightly attracted the attention of scholars of Victorian science. Yet so much emphasis not only on Darwin himself, but on the life sciences generally, has tended to obscure some important issues concerning the relation of theology to natural science in the first half of the nineteenth century. As John Brooke has argued recently, natural theology in this pre-Darwinian period was far from being an essentially static, autonomous, and monolithic set of presuppositions about the existence of design in nature, but was, for various reasons, in a fragmented and disordered state. The general aim of the present note is to suggest some further dimensions to historical debates about the nature of natural theology, and in particular to emphasize the need for an examination of the physical sciences as well as the life sciences in this period.

  • BJH volume 11 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 3 / November 1978
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    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b5
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    November 1978
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  • The Importance of French Transformist Ideas for the Second Volume of Lyell'S Principles of Geology

  • Pietro Corsi
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 3 / November 1978
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    05 January 2009, pp. 221-244
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    November 1978

  • Recently there has been considerable revaluation of the development of natural sciences in the early nineteenth century, dealing among other things with the works and ideas of Charles Lyell. The task of interpreting Lyell in balanced terms is extremely complex because his activities covered many fields of research, and because his views have been unwarrantably distorted in order to make him the precursor of various modern scientific positions. Martin Rudwick in particular has contributed several papers relating to Lyell's Principles of geology, and has repeatedly stressed the need for a comprehensive evaluation of Lyell's scientific proposals, and of his position in the culture of his time. In the present paper I hope to contribute to the reassessment of Lyell's work by concentrating on his discussion of transformism, which constituted the central theme of the second volume of the Principles of geology: the very length of Lyell's detailed and critical analysis of Lamarck's theories reveals the importance he attributed to the question of transformism in the contemporary natural sciences.

  • Polyhedra and the Abominations of Leviticus

  • David Bloor
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 3 / November 1978
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    05 January 2009, pp. 245-272
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    November 1978
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  • How are social and institutional circumstances linked to the knowledge that scientists produce? To answer this question it is necessary to take risks: speculative but testable theories must be proposed. It will be my aim to explain and then apply one such theory. This will enable me to propose an hypothesis about the connexion between social processes and the style and content of mathematical knowledge.

  • BJH volume 11 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 11 / Issue 3 / November 1978
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    November 1978
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