Browsing by FAS Department "History of Science"
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The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research
(Agricultural History Society, 1964) -
The advancement of science, and its burdens : with a new introduction
(Harvard University Press, 1998) -
Afterword: Rethinking Western Printing With Chinese Comparisons
(Brill, 2011)Historians of the book of all specialisms, but especially those pondering the impact of printing in Europe or elsewhere, stand much to gain from a volume like this one which tackles a big question --the impact of printing ... -
AIDS in Historical Perspective: Four Lessons from the History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
(American Public Health Association, 1988) -
The American Medical Profession: Mid‑Nineteenth Century
(Loyola University, Institute of Jesuit History, 1962) -
The American Soldier in Jerusalem: How Social Science and Social Scientists Travel
(2016-05-23)The dissertation asks how social science and its tools—especially those associated with the precise measurement of attitudes, motivations and preferences—became a pervasive way of knowing about and ordering the world, as ... -
And Heal the Sick: The Hospital and the Patient in the 19th Century America
(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1977) -
Annotating and Indexing Natural Philosophy
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)Reading, compiling and commenting on texts long constituted one of the central practices of natural philosophy, from antiquity down to at least the late 17th century. From Pliny to Ulisse Aldrovandi to Johann Jonston, from ... -
An Appreciation of Christiane Groeben: The Correspondence between Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2015) -
The Approaching Epidemic
(Hawthorn Press, 1988) -
Asa Gray and Charles Darwin: Corresponding Naturalists
(Harvard University Herbaria, 2010)Recent work on the rise of science in the nineteenth century has encouraged historians to look again at the role of correspondence. Naturalists relied extensively on this form of contact and correspondence was a major ... -
Assembling the Cure: Materia Medica and the Culture of Healing in Late Imperial China
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the intersection between the culture of knowledge and socio-economic conditions of late Ming and Qing China (1550-1800) through the lens of materia medica. I argue that medicine in China during ... -
The Audience for Science in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
(Science History Publications Ltd, 1974) -
Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin
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Authorship in the Popular "Problemata Aristotelis"
(Brill Academic Publishers, 1999)Why does red hair turn white sooner than other hair? Why does a man yawn when he sees another yawn? Why is it a good custom to eat cheese after dinner? Why is there such delight in the act of venery? Why do birds not piss? ... -
Back to the future
(Elsevier BV, 2013) -
Bedlam in the New World: Madness, Colonialism, and a Mexican Madhouse,1567-1821
(2015-08-31)In spite of a vast and robust literature on madness and its institutions, colonial Mexico remains unchartered domain and little is known about the Hospital de San Hipólito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the Americas ... -
Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690
(2014-06-06)Between Figure and Line: Visual Transformations of Cartesian Physics, 1620-1690 is the first sustained examination of the diagrams and illustrations that constituted the seventeenth century's new physics. When René Descartes ... -
Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)The 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The largest of these were the rival International ... -
Bibliothèques portables: les recueils de lieux communs dans la Renaissance tardive
(Albin Michel, 1996)