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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Illinois
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Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Includes index.

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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Chemical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nature themselves, in various cultures and periods of history, have understood and represented their work. The aim of each chapter is to explain the content, goals, methods, practices, and institutions associated with the investigation of nature and to articulate the strengths, limitations, and boundaries of these efforts from the perspective of the researchers themselves. With contributions from experts representing different historical periods and different disciplinary specializations, this volume offers a fresh perspective on the history of science and on what it meant, in other times and places, to wrestle with nature.

Author: Ohio
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Languages : en
Pages : 1004

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Author: Ohio State Library
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Daniel Patrick Thurs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541522
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But the complexity of scientific research can also be confusing and overwhelming, causing many to divert their attentions elsewhere and leave science to the “experts.” Whether they follow science news closely or not, Americans take for granted that discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly. Few, however, stop to consider how these advances—and the debates they sometimes lead to—contribute to the changing definition of the term “science” itself. Going beyond the issue-centered debates, Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future. Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science—originally used as a synonym for general knowledge—became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the highly educated.

Author: San Francisco Public Library
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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