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13574 results in History of science and technology

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  • BJH volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 9 / Issue 1 / March 1976
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    March 1976
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  • Robert Chambers and the Nebular Hypothesis

  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 8 / Issue 3 / November 1975
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    05 January 2009, pp. 214-232
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    November 1975

  • The role of Robert Chambers's anonymous Vestiges of the natural history of creation in popularizing evolutionary ideas establishes it as a significant work in the history of science even though its intrinsic scientific value is not great. Its fascinating subject, a universally applicable developmental hypothesis, piqued the curiosity of the nineteenth-century reading public. The clientele to whom the book especially appealed was not too concerned with errors in fact and unsupported generalizations, but instead was attracted by the smoothness of its literary style and the glibness of its pronouncements. These same characteristics caused it to be an anathema to both scientists and clergymen, who joined together to voice their disapproval; they agreed that the ideas in it were potentially harmful to those untrained in scientific procedures and unaware of the book's inherent religious heresies.

  • BJH volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 8 / Issue 3 / November 1975
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    November 1975
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  • Early Experimental Graphs

  • Laura Tilling
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    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 8 / Issue 3 / November 1975
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    05 January 2009, pp. 193-213
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    November 1975

  • The graphical presentation of experimental data in the physical sciences has several advantages which today are too familiar to require very detailed enumeration. Its greatest strength lies in the clarity and succinctness with which it displays the information contained in tabulated results: for the experimenter a graph provides a rough and immediate check on the accuracy and suitability of the methods he is using, and for the reader of a scientific report it may convey in a few seconds information that could only be gleaned from a table of measurements by hours of close study. There are occasions where only the analysis of experimental graphs will provide the information we require, but usually the actual analysis of results is carried out nowadays by computational methods. The use of graphs is therefore not so much a necessary part of scientific procedure as an extremely useful one, and one that is often taken very much for granted.

  • BJH volume 8 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 8 / Issue 3 / November 1975
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    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b5
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    November 1975
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