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Beyond History of Science : Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield
author
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Schofield, Robert E.
publisher
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Lehigh University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0934223114
print isbn13
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9780934223119
ebook isbn13
:
9780585188829
language
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English
subject
Science--Historiography, Technology--Historiography, Schofield, Robert E.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
Q126.9.B49 1990eb
ddc
:
509
subject
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Science--Historiography, Technology--Historiography, Schofield, Robert E.
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Beyond History of Science
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Professor Robert E. Schofield
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Beyond History of Science
Essays in Honor of Robert E. Schofield
Edited by Elizabeth Garber
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press London and Toronto: Associated University Presses
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1990 by Associated University Presses, Inc.
All rights reserved. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the copyright owner, provided that a base fee of $10.00, plus eight cents per page, per copy is paid directly to the Copyright Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970. [0-934223-11-4/90 $10.00 + 8 pp, pc.]
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beyond history of science : essays in honor of Robert E. Schofield / edited by Elizabeth Garber. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-934223-11-4 (alk. paper) 1. Science-Historiography. 2. Technology-Historiography. 3. Schofield, Robert E. I. Schofield, Robert E. II. Garber, Elizabeth. Q126.9.B49 1990 509-dc20 89-45365 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Elizabeth Garber
7
To Robert E. Schofield: A Personal Tribute
Melvin Kranzberg
21
List of Contributors
27
Part I: Biography
Henry Cavendish on the Proper Method of Rectifying Abuses
Russell McCormmach
35
Duhem on Gibbs
Martin J. Klein
52
Life Span Developmental Psychology and the History of Science
Michael M. Sokal
67
Collective Lives of American Scientists: An Introductory Essay and a Bibliography
Clark A. Elliott
81
Part II: The Disciplines of Science
The Limits of Observation and the Hypotheses of Georges Louis Buffon and Charles Bonnet
Virginia P. Dawson
107
The Influence of Samuel George Morton on American Geology
Patsy Gerstner
126
Methodology and Its Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century Chemistry: Induction versus Hypothesis
Alan J. Rocke
137
Simon-Denis Poisson: Mathematics versus Physics in Early Nineteenth-Century France
Elizabeth Garber
156
Part III: Science and Technology
Newton Confronts the American Millwrights, or, Action and Reaction Are Not Always Equal
Edwin T. Layton, Jr
179
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W. J. M. Rankine and the Scottish Roots of Engineering Science
David F. Channell
194
The "Rediscovery" of Kirchhoff's Circuitry Laws
Andrew J. Butric
204
Warner and Swasey at the Naval Observatory: A View of the Science-Technology Relationship
Edward Jay Pershey
220
The Rise of Industrial Research in Cleveland, 1870-1930
Darwin H. Stapleton
231
Part IV: Science, Technology, and Culture
From Local to National: Time Standardization as a Reflection of American Culture
Orville Butler
249
From Ehrlich to Waksman: Chemotherapy and the Seamed Web of the Past
Alan I Marcus
266
One Culture: Creativity in Art, Science, and Technology
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