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Harvard University, 1930. Courtesy of Harvard University Archives.
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Science at Harvard University
Historical Perspectives
Edited by Clark A. Elliott and Margaret W. Rossiter
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1992 by Associated University Presses, Inc.
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Science at Harvard University: historical perspectives / edited by Clark A. Elliott and Margaret W. Rossiter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-934223-12-2 (alk. paper) 1. ScienceMassachusettsCambridgeHistory. 2. Harvard UniversityHistory. I. Elliott, Clark A. II. Rossiter, Margaret W. Q127.U6S3163 1992 509'.744'4dc20 89-64067 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Preface
7
Acknowledgments
9
Philanthropy, Structure, and Personality: or, The Interplay of Outside Money and Inside Influence
Margaret W. Rossiter
13
From Heaven's Alarm to Public Appeal: Comets and the Rise of Astronomy at Harvard
Sara Schechner Genuth
28
Engineering an Environment for Change: Bigelow, Peirce, and Early Nineteenth-Century Practical Education at Harvard
Mary Ann James
55
Harvard, MIT, and the Ideal Technical Education
Bruce Sinclair
76
A Scientific Career in the Age of Character: Jeffries Wyman and Natural History at Harvard
Toby A. Appel
96
The Museum Origins of Harvard Anthropology, 1866-1915
Curtis M. Hinsley
121
A Geologist by Profession, a Geographer by Inclination: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and Geography at Harvard
David N. Livingstone
146
L.J. Henderson and the Mutual Dependence of Variables: From Physical Chemistry to Pareto
John Parascandola
167
The Establishment of Sociology at Harvard: A Case of Organizational Ambivalence and Scientific Vulnerability
Lawrence T. Nichols
191
Harvard Psychology, the Psychological Clinic, and Henry A. Murray: A Case Study in the Establishment of Disciplinary Boundaries
Rodney G. Triplet
223
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Howard H. Aiken, Harvard University, and IBM: Cooperation and Conflict
I. Bernard Cohen
251
Harvard Astronomers and World War IIDisruption and Opportunity
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
285
The Further Study of Harvard Science (1636-1945): Sources and Suggestions
Clark A. Elliott
303
Appendix 1: Bibliography on the History of the Sciences at Harvard (1636-1945)
Clark A. Elliott
324
Appendix 2: Chronological Overview of Harvard Science (1636-1945)
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