The Invention and Advance of Scientific Instruments
Overview
The study of the heavens produced the earliest surviving scientific instruments, and the need for accurate astronomical sightings and calcu...
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Science
Sociologists of science study the social organization of science, the relationships between science and other social institutions, social influences on the content of scientific knowledge, and...
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Science: Overview
Science looms as large as any aspect of the contemporary world, with multiple moral and political engagements on its own as well as through its associations with technology. Both as ...
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Science
Timeline
1900–1909 ∼ Quantum Theory, Aviation Science, Genetics, Statistics
German physicist Max Planck presents the quantum theory that speculates energy is emitted in pulses f...
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In the following essay, Moravcsik examines the categories devised by Aristotle and offers an explanation regarding their role in Aristotle's theories. Moravcsik maintains that the nature of the...
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In the following excerpt, Lloyd discusses Aristotle's doctrine of categories, the syllogism, and the idea of scientific knowledge. In studying the works in which these topics are presented, Llo...
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In the following essay, Wedin maintains that in De Anima, Aristotle provides a general theory of the soul which he extends and develops in other works. Wedin goes on to explore the relationship betwee...
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In the following essay, written in 1994, Senack investigates Aristotle's theories regarding the soul in order to determine his views on the differences between male and female souls. Senack fin...
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In the following essay, Gordon examines tensions between modern literature and science.
The French scientist Jacques Monod, using the evidence of modern biology, has brought up to date the hypothesis ...
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In the following essay, Cherry emphasizes the importance of communication between poets and scientists.
In an essay first published in The New Statesman in 1956 and later included in a series of lectu...
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In the following essay, Kurz discusses the place of literature in a world increasingly dominated by science and technology.
The Discussion in England
The last essay of the late Aldous Huxley1 deals wi...
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In the following essay, Levin offers his view of the affinities between modern fiction and science.
Since my three-word title echoes those two nouns which denote the subject of this symposium, it shou...
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In the following essay, Brackett discusses the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century, claiming that new avenues in literature were limited and science offered the oppor...
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In the following essay, Flint examines George Eliot's The Lifted Veil as a text representative of the developing contemporary debate about the relationship between physiology and psychology.
On...
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In the following essay, Underwood evaluates Shelley's engagement with contemporary debates on science and natural philosophy, remarking on the connections between his scientific studies and poe...
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In the following essay, Hume characterizes Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes as one of Twain's few satiric attacks on the scientific ideologies of his time.
Despite the fact that Mark Twa...
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In the following essay, O'Neill offers an analysis of Tennyson's poetry, explaining that his synthesis of the romantic and scientific helped define the Victorian response to the muddied ...
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In the following essay, Wilson examines Dickinson's poems concerning death, noting that while the poet's attitude toward the power of the scientific method is generally favorable, she re...
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In the following essay, Brigham studies Shelley's Adonais as an interdisciplinary poem that incorporates scientific literature with traditional poetry.
Research programs in science studies ...
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In the following excerpt, Walls surveys nineteenth-century theories about the plurality of worlds in the context of several notable non-fiction works of the time.
We might try our lives by a thousand ...
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In the following essay, Burroughs looks at nineteenth-century literary figures, including Keats, Tennyson, Emerson, and Carlyle, to assess the extent to which these writers were influenced by science....
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In the following essay, Mayne discusses how poetry and science are more similar than different in that they both seek truth. Likewise, Mayne claims that the best way to popularize scientific knowledge...
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In the following essay, Mizruchi examines the emergence of the science of sociology in the nineteenth century and discusses the ways in which the concerns of this new science corresponded to the conce...
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In the following essay, Cooper traces the influence of the scientific theories of evolution and determinism on nineteenth-century poetry, explaining that the period was one of extensive experimentatio...
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In the following essay, Walls finds that the rise of nature literature is related to the hardening distinctions between science and literature, an issue that was of great significance to intellectuals...
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In the following essay, Morgan reviews two 1998 texts dealing with the effects of modernization and globalization on late-nineteenth-century intellectuals, commenting on the resonating power of questi...
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In the following essay, White discusses the impact of science on Dickinson's poetry, speculating that the poet used her writing to explore the negative effects of the scientific impulse to unco...
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In the following essay, Hume analyses Poe's “Ligeia” as a synthesis of mythology and science.
In a September 1839 letter to Philip Cooke, Edgar Allan Poe expressed his view that &...
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The Invention and Advance of Scientific Instruments
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Science: Overview
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