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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Splashdowns: Why Change a Good Thing?
I’ve recently begun the task of revisiting and reorganizing my master’s thesis in the hope of turning it into a book. The paper examines the push by NASA to incorporate a pilot-controlled land landing system into its second- and third-generation … Continue reading
The Two Cultures?
Slides from my history of science class. Update (11/28): Turns out this is the last set of slides from me this semester.
Posted in Teaching HPS
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Newton and alchemy: a constant surprise?
Recently there was an article in the New York Times, which, surprisingly enough, reported reasonably accurately and interestingly on the work of an historian of science, William Newman (who I mentioned in my previous post on 19th-century views of alchemy). In the … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged alchemy, David Brewster, history of science, Isaac Newton, William Newman
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A rose by any other name …
Copernicus, Kopernikus or Kopernik that is the question?
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The Historiography of Agricultural Science
I have put together a survey of some of the literature on late 19th and early 20th-century agricultural science, focusing on the UK example, at Ether Wave Propaganda. Although there have been diverse approaches, the history of genetics looms large … Continue reading
Giants’ Shoulders #29 is out
Egil at Heterodoxolgy has put together a feast of the truly esoteric in the history of science for Giants’ Shoulders #29 which is now up at his website. Go for a visit and enjoy the complete spectrum of all that is strange, … Continue reading
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