Cambridge University Press по журналам "The British Journal for the History of Science"
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1988-09-01)Some of the drawings of the Villard de Honnecourt's manuscript—of which Lassus and Willis gave the first comprehensive editions in the middle of the nineteenth Century—are little technical sketches whose captions do not ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2008-09-01)This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1975-07-01)In recent years John Herapath has emerged as an important figure in the early history of the dynamical theory of gases. In a series of papers published in 1821 and 1822 he outlined an elaborate theory of the states of ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1976-03-01)The concepts of action and reaction before Newton have received so little attention from historians that the unwary student might easily get the impression that Newton was the first to concern himself seriously with the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1978-07-01)My assignment today, as I understand it, is to say something about the Second International Congress of the History of Science, the only previous one held in the United Kingdom; to mention some of the great historians of ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2010-12-01)This essay analyses the circulation of political models and administrative practices drawn from the Enlightenment statecraft of metropolitan Portugal and their inscription in specific colonial contexts of Angola in the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-09-01)Will Ladislaw's words, which so disillusion the young Dorothea, might also depress the modern interpreter of Newton's theology. Encountering the bulk of Newton's manuscript theology, it is tempting to sympathize with ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2000-09-01)The creators of Sydney's botanic garden were a varied group of people with diverse agendas and interests, only some of whom saw themselves as men of science. While several were trying to advance botany, others were more ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-06-01)The Benzolfest of 1890 in honour of August Kekulé fell into that economically prosperous, politically peaceful period of European imperialism which is characterized by the splendour of the courts of Queen Victoria of the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1963-06-01)A hundred years ago the science of spectroscopy, though not yet christened, may be said to have attained its majority and to be just entering on its period of full adult development. It was born, of course, with Newton's ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1975-07-01)There is no evidence to suggest that even as late as January 1672, when Newton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, anyone (except those unknown few who had in the previous years attended his Lucasian lectures at ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1977-03-01)Central to the development of geology has been the growth of systematic empirical observation as a programme of scientific practice. Fieldwork has focused on many objects—strata, fossils, and landforms—and has issued in a ...
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