Studies In The History Of Culture And Science
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Science Education and Culture
Author | : Fabio Bevilacqua,Enrico Giannetto,Michael R. Matthews |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2001-10-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0792369726 |
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This anthology contains selected papers from the 'Science as Culture' conference held at Lake Como, and Pavia University Italy, 15-19 September 1999. The conference, attended by about 220 individuals from thirty countries, was a joint venture of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group (its fifth conference) and the History of Physics and Physics Teaching Division of the European Physical Society (its eighth conference). The magnificient Villa Olmo, on the lakeshore, provided a memorable location for the presentors of the 160 papers and the audience that discussed them. The conference was part of local celebrations of the bicentenary of Alessandro Volta's creation of the battery in 1799. Volta was born in Como in 1745, and for forty years from 1778 he was professor of experimental physics at Pavia University. The conference was fortunate to have had the generous financial support of the Italian government's Volta Bicentenary Fund, Lombardy region, Pavia University, Italian Research Council, and Kluwer Academic Publishers. The papers included here, have or will be, published in the journal Science & Education, the inaugural volume (1992) of which was a landmark in the history of science education publication, because it was the first journal in the field devoted to contributions from historical, philosophical and sociological scholarship. Clearly these 'foundational' disciplines inform numerous theoretical, curricular and pedagogical debates in science education. Contemporary Concerns The reseach promoted by the International and European Groups, and by the journal, is central to science education programmes in most areas of the world.
A History of Science in World Cultures
Author | : Scott L. Montgomery,Alok Kumar |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317439059 |
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To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. Taking a global yet comprehensive approach to this complex topic, A History of Science in World Cultures uses a broad range of case studies and examples to demonstrate that the scientific thought and method of the present day is deeply rooted in a pluricultural past. Covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Greece, China, Islam, and the New World, this volume discusses the scope of scientific and technological achievements in each civilization and how the knowledge it developed came to impact the European Renaissance. Themes covered include the influence these scientific cultures had upon one another, the power of writing and its technologies, visions of mathematical order in the universe and how it can be represented, and what elements of the distant scientific past we continue to depend upon today. Topics often left unexamined in histories of science are treated in fascinating detail, such as the chemistry of mummification and the Great Library in Alexandria in Egypt, jewellery and urban planning of the Indus Valley, hydraulic engineering and the compass in China, the sustainable agriculture and dental surgery of the Mayas, and algebra and optics in Islam. This book shows that scientific thought has never been confined to any one era, culture, or geographic region. Clearly presented and highly illustrated, A History of Science in World Cultures is the perfect text for all students and others interested in the development of science throughout history.
Science in Print
Author | : Rima D. Apple,Gregory J. Downey,Stephen L. Vaughn |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780299286132 |
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Ever since the threads of seventeenth-century natural philosophy began to coalesce into an understanding of the natural world, printed artifacts such as laboratory notebooks, research journals, college textbooks, and popular paperbacks have been instrumental to the development of what we think of today as “science.” But just as the history of science involves more than recording discoveries, so too does the study of print culture extend beyond the mere cataloguing of books. In both disciplines, researchers attempt to comprehend how social structures of power, reputation, and meaning permeate both the written record and the intellectual scaffolding through which scientific debate takes place. Science in Print brings together scholars from the fields of print culture, environmental history, science and technology studies, medical history, and library and information studies. This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of those tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices that grew into modern science, from the days of the Royal Society of London in the late 1600s to the beginning of the modern U.S. environmental movement in the early 1960s.
The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany
Author | : Michael C. Carhart |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674026179 |
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In the late 1770s, as a wave of revolution and republican unrest swept across Europe, scholars looked with urgency on the progress of European civilization. Carhart examines their approaches to understanding human development by investigating the invention of a new analytic category, "culture."
Studies in the History of Culture and Science
Author | : Resianne Fontaine,Ruth Glasner,Reimund Leicht,Giuseppe Veltri |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004191242 |
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An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth Century Media
Author | : Louise Henson,Geoffrey Cantor,Gowan Dawson,Richard Noakes,Sally Shuttleworth,Jonathan R. Topham |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351946841 |
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Written by literary scholars, historians of science, and cultural historians, the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles, the six sections comprise: 'Women, Children, and Gender', 'Religious Audiences', 'Naturalizing the Supernatural', 'Contesting New Technologies', 'Professionalization and Journalism', and 'Evolution, Psychology, and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media.
Visual Cultures of Science
Author | : Luc Pauwels |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1584655127 |
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A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.
Visual Cultures in Science and Technology
Author | : Klaus Hentschel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780198717874 |
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What makes a good scientific image? Is science defined by its pictures? The present book offers a broad comparative survey of the history, generation, use and function of images in scientific practice based on an extensive range of historical sources in the natural sciences, technology and medicine, particularly physics, astronomy, and chemistry.