The Blind Giant A Study Of The Reaction To Evolution At Princeton 1800 1880
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Author |
: Elizabeth H. Leitch |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
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: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:56187231 |
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: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blind Giant: a Study of the Reaction to Evolution at Princeton: 1800-1880 by : Elizabeth H. Leitch
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: Columbia University. Graduate Faculties |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
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: 1958 |
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: UCAL:B3089872 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masters' Essays and Doctoral Dissertations by : Columbia University. Graduate Faculties
Author |
: Benjamin A. Elman |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674036475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674036476 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Their Own Terms by : Benjamin A. Elman
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Author |
: David A. Baum |
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: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 888 |
Release |
: 2013-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400848065 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400848067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Princeton Guide to Evolution by : David A. Baum
The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society. Complete with more than 100 illustrations (including eight pages in color), glossaries of key terms, suggestions for further reading on each topic, and an index, this is an essential volume for undergraduate and graduate students, scientists in related fields, and anyone else with a serious interest in evolution. Explains key topics in some 100 concise and authoritative articles written by a team of leading evolutionary biologists Contains more than 100 illustrations, including eight pages in color Each article includes an outline, glossary, bibliography, and cross-references Covers phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; genes, genomes, and phenotypes; speciation and macroevolution; evolution of behavior, society, and humans; and evolution and modern society
Author |
: Geoffrey M. Hodgson |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2010-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226346908 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226346900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Darwin's Conjecture by : Geoffrey M. Hodgson
A theoretical study dealing chiefly with matters of definition and clarification of terms and concepts involved in using Darwinian notions to model social phenomena.
Author |
: Theodore M. Porter |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2020-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691210544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691210543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trust in Numbers by : Theodore M. Porter
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Author |
: Arie Wallert |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1995-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780892363223 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0892363223 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice by : Arie Wallert
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Author |
: Neil Shubin |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2008-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307377166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307377164 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Your Inner Fish by : Neil Shubin
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Author |
: Gregory Clark |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2008-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400827817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400827817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Farewell to Alms by : Gregory Clark
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
Author |
: Jonathan Mallory House |
Publisher |
: DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781428915831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1428915834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward Combined Arms Warfare by : Jonathan Mallory House