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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Scientific transformations: a philosophical and historical analysis of cosmology from Copernicus to Newton

Castillo, Manuel-Albert 01 January 2017 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to show a transformation around the scientific revolution from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries against a Whig approach in which it still lingers in the history of science. I find the transformations of modern science through the cosmological models of Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. Since of the enormous content, I shall only pay particular attention to Copernicus and Newton in which the emerging sciences transformed the cosmos on what Alexandre Koyré calls from a "closed world to infinite universe". As an interdisciplinary approach, I used the methods and inquiries from philosophy and history to explain the cosmological transformation in the sciences. The first part deals on the philosophic content of Michel Foucault and Thomas Kuhn which help to provide insight though their systematic thoughts are incompatible. The second part deals in the historic contents from Copernicus' doctrine, De revolutionibus, to Newton's mechanics, Principia. My ultimate outcome is to demonstrate the multi-perspective dimension of knowledge in which interdisciplinary studies shows transformation of the sciences and its effects on history.
2

The Concept of Human Nature in New England

Weber, Jerry Dean 01 January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
3

The Formation of the Russian Medical Profession: A Comparison of Power and Plagues in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Schuth, Samuel Otto 01 January 2014 (has links)
No description available.
4

"If I Had My Health ": Ideas about Illness and Healing in the Lisle Letters

Mitchell, Margaret T. 01 January 1990 (has links) (PDF)
No description available.
5

Campus and consortium in an era of large-scale research: An historical study of the Virginia Associated Research Center, 1962-1967

Ward, Elizabeth Buchanan 01 January 1993 (has links)
A large agency of the Federal Government, three public institutions of higher learning, and two agents of State Government in the Commonwealth of Virginia launched a federally funded research and education consortium in 1962. The Virginia Associated Research Center (VARC) promised great success. The University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and The College of William and Mary joined forces to provide the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center with a scientific research base and a graduate education program. The Commonwealth initially provided enthusiastic support from the Governor's office and from the State Council for Higher Education.;The three colleges agreed to cooperatively manage and operate the NASA Space Radiation Effects Laboratory on the Virginia Lower Peninsula. NASA funded the costs of operating the laboratory, gave the colleges research time for experiments and provided the colleges with large multidisciplinary grants. In return, the colleges were to set up graduate education programs for NASA employees. These graduate programs were to grant degrees from the respective institutions for course work taken at the VARC site on the Peninsula. The research function of the consortium proved to be more productive than the education function.;Certain criteria for successful and unsuccessful consortia were ascertained from the literature. VARC's characteristics were analyzed according to these specific criteria. The three institutions could not agree on how to operate the facility. Inherently weak governance structures in the consortium led to the failure of the venture; after only five years, the consortium dissolved. The Governor of Virginia placed the Center under the auspices of the college nearest the Peninsula, The College of William and Mary. Though unsuccessful as a consortium, VARC became a means to achievement for the three colleges. Each of the three gained stronger, more reputable physics departments and two of the institutions achieved modern university status. A qualitative analysis emerges as the consortium's operation and characteristics unfold through oral history. The study details circumstances which led to VARC's demise and simultaneously describes a key transitional period for The College of William and Mary in its three hundred year history.
6

A Fatal Enigma?: The Reception of Smallpox Inoculation in Colonial Massachusetts

Patten, Monika Drake 01 January 1990 (has links)
No description available.
7

Lead Poisoning from the Colonial Period to the Present

Eubanks, Elsie Irene 01 January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
8

Our Great Physicist: Professor Joseph Henry of Princeton and the Rise of Science in the Antebellum College

Swords, Sarah 01 January 2006 (has links)
No description available.
9

Benjamin Smith Barton, "MD": The American Performance of Scientific Authority in a Trans-Atlantic World

Tanner-Read, Ryan Bartholomew 01 January 2012 (has links)
No description available.
10

Great Blue Herons and River Otters: The Changing Perceptions of All Things Wild in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake

Manning-Sterling, Elise Helene 01 January 1994 (has links)
No description available.

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