Papers by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Physics, Patents, and Politics: A Biography of Charles Grafton Page
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 1977
Draper, Mary Anna Palmer (1839-1914), philanthropist
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 1, 2000
From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences: Writing the History of Nineteenth-Century Science. Edited by David Cahan (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003) 456 pp. $85.00
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Jul 1, 2005
... work, Wissen, Glaube und Ahndung, which appeared in 1989 as Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic ... more ... work, Wissen, Glaube und Ahndung, which appeared in 1989 as Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic ... 9. Kuhn, Scientific Growth: Reflections on Ben-David's 'Scientific Role,' provides an excel ... and methods of their domains trans-formed, in part through the introduction of science. ...
Goode, George Brown (1851-1896), zoologist, museum administrator, and historian of science
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 1, 2000
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 27-30 December 1981
Isis, Sep 1, 1982
Technology and Culture, Oct 1, 1976
We already know a good deal about the Swiss, Felix Platter, the elder (1536-1614), because the ac... more We already know a good deal about the Swiss, Felix Platter, the elder (1536-1614), because the account of his experiences as a medical student at Montpellier is available in English (Beloved son Felix. The journal of Felix Platter a medical student in Montpellier in the sixteenth century, translated and introduced by S6an Jennett, London, F. Muller, 1961). The present book is an excellent presentation of the diary in its original early new high German, amply supplied with scholarly apparatus in the form of abundant footnotes, a detailed introduction, accounts of other episodes after 1567 and his finances, well-reproduced and plentiful illustrations and maps, an iconography, and a comprehensive index. Those who wish to check or follow further material in the English version may do so in this definitive edition of the journals, providing they can read sixteenth-century German. It is also an important contribution to the history of Renaissance medicine and provides a very high standard of scholarship that others who wish to edit diaries of any period will do well to emulate.
Historical Writing on American Science: Perspectives and Prospects
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks, 1988
The Journal of American History, Jun 1, 2020
The Journal of American History, Jun 1, 1982
Reviewed by DANIEL W. BJORK) Who was James McCosh? Although he had an illustrious philosophical c... more Reviewed by DANIEL W. BJORK) Who was James McCosh? Although he had an illustrious philosophical career in Scotland and Ireland before becoming president of Princeton in 1868, McCosh is perhaps best remembered as a "moral" philosopher who, along with Henry Ward Beecher, gave qualified Protestant support to Darwinism. Actually, McCosh shared emerging mid-and late-nineteenth-century modernity with a host of remarkable intellects including American Cambridgians Francis Bowen, Francis Abbot, John Fiske, Chauncy Wright, Charles Peirce, and William James. They all faced, though in differing ways, Charles Darwin's impact on the prevailing religious orientation, which at Harvard was a unitarianism that had recently replaced Emersonian transcendentalism. In McCosh's Scotland the Darwinian storm broke amid a struggle between a militant evangelical Protestantism and a modern philosophical dualism called Scottish realism. But McCosh and the Americans were engaged in institutional as well as intellectual struggle, for they formed their worldviews within or near the influence of the developing modern university. Indeed, McCosh himself hired a "professional" faculty at Princeton and installed a curriculum with a strong scientific emphasis; and Charles W. Eliot, his contemporary at Harvard, was an even more radical modernizer. These revolutionary changes in American higher education were the backdrop for what Bruce Kuklick calls the "Golden Age" in American philosophy at Harvard from the 1860s to World War I. The Rise ofAmerican Philosophy centers on the "Golden Age" and particularly on James and Josiah Royce. Their philosophical thinking affected not only each other but also men like Hugo Miinsterberg, George Santayana, Ralph Barton Perry, Edwin Holt, Ernest Hocking, and C. I. Lewis. James and Royce provided the
Technology and Culture, Jul 1, 1987
Mobile botany
UCL Press eBooks, Apr 19, 2021
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey by Hugh R. Slotten
Technology and Culture, 1996
No one in mid-19th-century America better meshed scientific au-thority, political strategies, and... more No one in mid-19th-century America better meshed scientific au-thority, political strategies, and professional commitment than Alex-ander Dallas Bache. Nathan Reingold and other scholars who studied the formative years of the American scientific community suggested the ...
Academic Collections
University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963. Rexmond C. Cochrane
Isis, Mar 1, 1980
Neelam Kumar (Editor). Women and Science in India: A Reader. xxxii + 351 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. $45 (cloth)
Isis, Mar 1, 2011
Museum history journal, Jul 1, 2008
When the Smithsonian's curator of anthropology, Otis T. Mason, took a twomonth tour of European m... more When the Smithsonian's curator of anthropology, Otis T. Mason, took a twomonth tour of European museums, he participated in a tradition of learning from museum peers even as he demonstrated one way that international standards for museum practice were shared and extended in the late nineteenth century. In this era of major museum building, an emerging group of professional administrators were increasingly self-conscious about the status of their own institutions and eager to adopt state-of-the-art practices. Mason's tour was timed to enable him to attend the specialized society meetings held in conjunction with the Jubilee International Exposition in Paris in 1889. The rest of his tour was spent visiting museums in Britain and northern Europe where he met leading museum administrators including William Flower, Adolph B. Meyer, and Adolph Bastian. Mason's letters to the National Museum's director, George Brown Goode, and to his wife, Sallie Mason, and daughters, Sallie and Emilie, offer a valuable window on European museums in the late nineteenth century and reveal the networks that facilitated an exchange of materials and ideas among a museum specialists and administrators as they established increasingly similar standards of museum practice. In July of 1889, Otis T. Mason embarked on a tour of major museums in Britain and northern Europe. As curator of anthropology at the United States National Museum, the most visible and public component of the Smithsonian Institution, Mason intended to spend nearly two months visiting museum colleagues in major urban institutions
Nature, Not Books
Isis, Sep 1, 2005
Scientists played a key role in the first systematic introduction of nature study into North Amer... more Scientists played a key role in the first systematic introduction of nature study into North American public schools in the late nineteenth century. The initiatives of Wilbur Jackman and John Merle Coulter, affiliated with the young University of Chicago, and Liberty Hyde Bailey and Anna Botsford Comstock, at Cornell University, coincided with the "new education" reform movement that found object lessons and experience-based education superior to textbook teaching. Educational psychologists and philosophers of the 1890s, including G. Stanley Hall, related curriculum methods to perceived developmental stages in children, with a focus on immediate experience. Putting these pedagogical ideas--gained in summer institutes, normal schools, and programs at Chicago and Cornell--into practice were administrators and classroom teachers in both urban and rural classrooms. By 1900, a consensus about the value of nature study among scientists, community leaders, and teachers established it as the recognized general method of studying the natural world in public schools across much of the United States.
The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842
The New England Quarterly, Mar 1, 1977
M l^ff*-4,<.y \ Si à* 'Щ, ****■-* ... $14-95 The Great Un... more M l^ff*-4,<.y \ Si à* 'Щ, ****■-* ... $14-95 The Great United States Exploring Expedition of18381842 By WILLIAM STANTON Few chapters in the history of Ameri-can science or the US Navy contain more bravura, comic mishaps, or slap-dash adventuring than the Wilkes Expedition of ...
Henry A. Ward: the merchant naturalist and American museum development
Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, Apr 1, 1980
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