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1. THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)
2. Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)
3. The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)
4. Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914
5. Soldiering toward the information superhighway: The comparison of old and new communication media use during military operations in the post-Cold War era
6. Engineering progress: Californians and the making of a global economy
7. Sister Mary Theresa Brentano, O.S.B.: Innovator in the use of magnetic audio tapes. An overlooked story in the history of educational technology
8. German and American airframes in World War II: A study
9. Rainfall and agriculture in Central West Africa since 1930
10. Genetics instruction with history of science: Nature of science learning
11. Burying nuclear waste, exposing nuclear authority: Canada's nuclear waste disposal concept and expert -lay discourse
12. Little man: Four junior physicists and the Red Scare experience
13. People, rocks, and some interesting restaurants along the way: A study of the work of John M. Dennison and the burgeoning theory of plate tectonics
14. Singularities: Technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21<sup>st</sup> century
15. Tracing beliefs and behaviors of a participant in a longitudinal study for the development of mathematical ideas and reasoning: A case study
16. Science writing heurisitc: A writing-to-learn strategy and its effect on student's science achievement, science self-efficacy, and scientific epistemological view
17. Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
18. A Newton-Krylov Solution to the Coupled Neutronics-Porous Medium Equations
19. Calculative cinema: Technologies of speed, scale, and explication
20. Mechanical epistemology and mixed mathematics: Descartes's Problems and Hobbes's Unity
21. More than nothing: Histories of the vacuum in theoretical physics, 1927-1981
22. Briller sur scène : L'astronomie dans le théâtre du grand siècle
23. Toxic gardens: Narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction
24. Producing a past: Cyrus McCormick's reaper from heritage to history
25. Ontogenetic and stratigraphic cranial variation in the ceratopsid dinosaur <i>Triceratops</i> from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana
26. Making the West malleable: Coal, geohistory, and Western expansion, 1800–1920
27. Scientific Understanding and Pragmatic Rationality
28. Past and present hydrogeology of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile: Human and natural system interactions
29. Experiments, simulations, and lessons from experimental evolution
30. A mathematical life: Richard Courant, New York University and scientific diplomacy in twentieth century America
31. The drainage network of the Athenian Agora
32. Signs in the song: Scientific poetry in the hellenistic period
33. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557): Renaissance Reader and New World Naturalist and Historian
34. Innateness in the sciences: Separating nature, nurture, and nativism
35. Personal Computing before Personal Computers: The Origins of America's Digital Culture
36. Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party-State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957
37. Enharmonic Procedures in Nineteenth-Century Music
38. Philosopher's Stone: The Faustian Geist of development
39. Makhˇa'´s adornments Historical ethnoecology of Lakhˇóta plant knowledge
40. While Stands the Colosseum: A Ground-Up Exploration of Ancient Roman Construction Techniques Using Virtual Reality
41. Unspoken connections: Scientists' intersubjective experiences with animals
42. Ecomysticism: Materialism and mysticism in American nature writing
43. Hydrology and Classic Maya urban planning: A geospatial analysis of settlement and water management at Xultun, Guatemala
44. Reordering the landscape: Science, nature, and spirituality at Wye House
45. Philosopher kings, then and now: The political philosophy of IQ
46. Essays on Environmental Policy and Technological Change
47. The new pulpit: Museums, authority, and the cultural reproduction of young-Earth creationism
48. Re-visioning the end of history
49. Organic farmers, German vintners, and the atomic monster of Seabrook: A trans-Atlantic history of social activism and nuclear power from New England to West Germany
50. New battlegrounds over science, risk, and environmental justice: Factors influencing the cleanup of military Superfund sites
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THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)
Author: FREEDMAN, JOSEPH SELIN
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Abstract: Sixteenth and seventeenth century European philosophy is a vast yet little studied field. During those two centuries, thousands of professors/other teachers instructed philosophy at European schools and universities. Various types of philosophical publications (textbooks, disputations, etc.) resulted from academic instruction held by these "academic philosophers". Few detailed studies have been written concerning individual academic philosophers; very little is known concerning the vast majority of these philosophers. This study presents a comprehensive and detailed examination of one academic philosopher: Clemens Timpler (1563/4-1624), a philosophy professor at the Gymnasium illustre Arnoldinum in Steinfurt/Westphalia. Max Wundt (1879-1963) is the only recent author who has discussed aspects of Timpler's philosophy in any detail. Wundt (rightly) praises Timpler's philosophical ability and points to (yet probably over-emphasizes) Timpler's influence on 17th century authors. The extant evidence relating to the various aspects of Timpler's life and career is presented within the context of the Steinfurt Gymnasium illustre Arnoldinum (and the other schools/universities at which he studied and/or taught). Timpler's philosophical writings arose out of his own academic instruction. Those writings (which include textbooks on metaphysics, physics, logic, rhetoric, ethics, family life, politics, optics, and human physiognomy) spread widely within 17th century Europe. Detailed attention is given to the manner in which the following authorities are cited within Timpler's writings: (1) post-AD 1500 authors (considered generally), (2) Ramus and "Ramists", (3) "Scholastics", (4) Aristotle and "Aristotelians". Timpler cited these authorities in an eclectic and independent manner. Timpler is a typical 16th/17th century academic philosopher with respect to (a) the topics which his own philosophical writings discussed and (b) the manner in which those writings were connected to his own academic instruction and career. The examination of Timpler's philosophical writings sheds light upon life, thought, and philosophy instruction in his day. However, Timpler's philosophical works also show high organizational and logical ability; he should be regarded as an extremely articulate and skilled representative of 16th and 17th century academic philosophy.
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Subject: History; Biographies
Classification: 0582: History; 0304: Biographies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Language, literature and linguistics
Title: THE LIFE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CLEMENS TIMPLER, 1563/4-1624 (GERMANY)
Number of pages: 942
Publication year: 1982
Degree date: 1982
School code: 0262
Source: DAI-A 44/12, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Madison
University location: United States -- Wisconsin
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 8325517
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Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)
Author: Malet, Antoni
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Abstract: As a general conclusion this dissertation suggests that the contributions of James Gregorie, Isaac Barrow and Isaac Newton are more closely related to one another than it is usually acknowledged. The first chapter contains a narrative on Gregorie's life and works. Evidence on Gregorie's life within 17th-century Scottish universities, his involvement in setting up the St. Andrews observatory, his activities in the early 1670's as leader of a Scottish network of mathematical virtuosi, and his juvenile astrological concerns is here produced for the first time. Gregorie's correspondence with Newton is studied. It is argued that John Collins, representing the world of practical mathematicians, was a source of motivations for some of Gregorie's mathematical discoveries, and that Gregorie's failed attempts to publicize his contributions clashed with institutional practices of the Royal Society. The second chapter studies Gregorie's contributions to optics, including a hitherto unpublished manuscript. Focusing on the origins of the notion of geometrical optical image, which are shown to have been influenced by the philosophical empiricism, I argue that Gregorie, Barrow, and Newton produced a methodological revolution in geometrical optics. The new optical science differed from Kepler's geometrical optics in that it was not a mixed mathematical science in the Aristotelian sense, but rather sought experimental confirmation for its basic notions and results, and thus provided a direct methodological antecedent to Newton's Principia. Studying Gregorie's work on "Taylor" expansions and his analytical method of tangents, which has passed unnoticed so far, the third chapter argues that Gregorie's work is a counter-example to the standard thesis that geometry and algebra were opposed forces in 17th-century mathematics. The last chapter studies and translates an unpublished mathematical manuscript with results that are similar to those in section 1 of Newton's Principia. Placing the contributions of Newton and Gregorie in the context of 17th-century discussions on indivisibles, I argue that Gregorie and Newton were idiosyncratic in their rejection of indivisibles. Research on the manuscripts of James Gregorie and David Gregory shows that David's Geometria practica is actually James's, and that David's optical book heavily borrows from James's optical manuscript.
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Subject: Science history; Mathematics; Biographies
Classification: 0585: Science history; 0405: Mathematics; 0304: Biographies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Pure sciences Language, literature and linguistics Barrow Gregory Newton
Title: Studies on James Gregorie (1638-1675)
Number of pages: 378
Publication year: 1989
Degree date: 1989
School code: 0181
Source: DAI-A 50/10, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
Advisor: Gillispie, Charles C.
University/institution: Princeton University
University location: United States -- New Jersey
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 9007165
ProQuest document ID: 303805250
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The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)
Author: Keas, Michael Newton
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Abstract: As a teacher, experimentalist, and organizer of science, August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) made an important contribution to British and German chemistry. He improved the laboratory research and instructional methods developed by Justus Liebig in Giessen and pondered their epistemological assumptions long after Liebig had retreated to agricultural and physiological chemistry. Hofmann became the first professor of the British Royal College of Chemistry in 1845 and continued his teaching and research in London until 1865 when he accepted an invitation to direct the chemistry program at the University of Berlin. A number of his students and assistants became prominent chemists in England and Germany. This dissertation analyzes the composition, organization, and methodology of Hofmann's laboratory research group in London and explains how these factors guided the group's choice and solution of research problems. In particular it shows how the composition and organization of the research group interacted both in harmonious and in conflicting ways with Hofmann's academic goals and scientific presuppositions to carry out a body of group research achievements.
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Subject: Science history; Education history; Biographies
Classification: 0585: Science history; 0520: Education history; 0304: Biographies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Education Language, literature and linguistics England Hofmann, August Wilhelm von chemistry
Title: The structure and philosophy of group research: August Wilhelm Hofmann's research program in London (1845-1865)
Number of pages: 351
Publication year: 1992
Degree date: 1992
School code: 0169
Source: DAI-A 53/12, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
Advisor: Nye, Mary Jo
University/institution: The University of Oklahoma
University location: United States -- Oklahoma
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 9311013
ProQuest document ID: 304047865
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Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914
Author: Feffer, Stuart M.
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Abstract: Ernst Abbe was a physicist and a professor at the University of Jena, best known for his contributions to the theory and design of optical instruments. Most of his work in this area was done in association with or (later) as proprietor of the firm of Carl Zeiss--a small workshop specializing in the custom manufacture of scientific instruments when he joined it, but an industrial enterprise with over a thousand employees by the time he retired. Abbe revolutionized the design and construction of microscope systems during the 1870s and 1880s, building Zeiss into Germany's premier optical supplier. The first half of the dissertation deals primarily with developments in microscopy, surveying the state of physical and practical knowledge about the construction of the microscope at the time Abbe began his work, showing how he related to that knowledge and made use of it, and examining how various communities of microscopists responded to what he published and what Zeiss' workshop produced. The remainder traces the effects that Abbe's and Zeiss' success with high-performance microscope systems had on the firm and on the German optical industry. Among other things, it prompted Abbe and Zeiss to invest in a new glassworks, which was eventually established with financial assistance from the Prussian government. Several circles in Berlin were extremely interested in this factory for reasons of their own, and the dissertation follows their interests, tying them to the political efforts that also led to the establishment of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. The dissertation also examines a period of explosive growth which the Zeiss company underwent in the 1890s and 1900s as many of the techniques and materials that had previously transformed microscopy found new places on the battlefield or at sea, in the form of new optical range finders, binoculars, gun sights, and other instruments of war.
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Subject: Science history; Economic history; European history
Classification: 0585: Science history; 0509: Economic history; 0335: European history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences Abbe, Ernst Germany Zeiss, Carl
Title: Microscopes to munitions: Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss, and the transformation of technical optics, 1850-1914
Number of pages: 346
Publication year: 1994
Degree date: 1994
School code: 0028
Source: DAI-A 55/09, Dissertation Abstracts International
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
Advisor: Heilbron, John L.
University/institution: University of California, Berkeley
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 9504797
ProQuest document ID: 304106883
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Soldiering toward the information superhighway: The comparison of old and new communication media use during military operations in the post-Cold War era
Author: Ender, Morten Gaston
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