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Natural Science Disciplines (9):
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Natural Science Disciplines
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Josef Armin Knapp (1843-1899) as Austrian botanist was interested in development of botanical knowledge of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy--his maternal country. Monarchy, during the long regency of emperor Franz Josef I, was multinational, very much diversified geographically territory. T...
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PMID: 21936457
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Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History ofChemistry of the American Chemical Society (36)1 2011
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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Study of the origins, philosophy and history of the criteria used to assess research activities in Spain by the CNEAI. The assessment criteria and quality evidence of publications is discussed. Results are presented on the temporal development of the criteria used, grouped by publication type (artic...
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PMID: 21044530
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We utilize these tools in fact returns us, instinctively, to European and Eurocentric ways of conceiving how science works....
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PMID: 20575496
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Annals of Science (67)1 2010
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I suggest that already in his 1847 'Uber die Erhaltung der Kraft' one may find important aspects of his later empiricism. I highlight the ways in which, from early on, Helmholtz turned Kant to use in developing an empirical program of inquiry into possible basic natural causes. To that end, I indica...
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PMID: 20503777
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Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's "Collins pocket guide to the sea shore" (1958).
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Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of "Collins pocket guide to the sea shore"....
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PMID: 21137584
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When early reviewers of Darwin's "On the origin of species" chided him for neglecting to mention predecessors to his theory of evolution, he added an "historical sketch" in later editions. Among the predecessors he cited was a French émigré to American named Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, who in t...
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PMID: 21137582
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The prevailing view is that psychiatry has its roots in two separate methodologies: the natural sciences and the social sciences. It is assumed that these are separate domains, each with its own way of knowing. Psychiatric and psychological theories are based mainly on one or other of these two type...
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PMID: 20623450
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New Zealand Geographer (66)2 2010
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We highlight the plight of kiwi, focusing on Northland and efforts there to (re)make space for this iconic bird which is at risk of extinction. While the state has primarily responded by fortifying "islands" on public conservation land, Far North communities are working in a variety of ways and loca...
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PMID: 20672471
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Clinical laboratory (56)9-10 2010
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Whereas in the 18th century medical science was influenced by both religion and the humanities, this changed around the middle of the 19th century as applied science accompanied a rapid development in medicine, especially in the fields of physiology and pathology. Currently the principles of biology...
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PMID: 21090067
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Revue d histoire de la pharmacie (57)364 2010
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Philippe Cauvet undertook a military career after having obtained his pharmacist diploma in the school of Montpellier in 1854. He kept first his terms in the military school of "Val-de-Grâce" in Paris and came after some years to Strasbourg as a tutor at the "Ecole impériale du Service de santé m...
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PMID: 20481380
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We explain how the discourses of the journal were creating a symbolic support for the weak conjuncture in which they tried to be consolidated legally as an institution....
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PMID: 21186698
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The journal Broteria has covered a long path, since its foundation in 1902 until the mid 20's, when it stands as one of the best journals of natural history and a voice of the renewal of the natural sciences in Portugal. Broteria's success was due, mainly, to the remarkable qualities of its founders...
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PMID: 21186699
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The article read over the intellectual connection between two physiologists, the Catalan exiled Augusto Pi Suñer in 1939 and the Venezuelan Francisco De Venanzi beyond their common research subject like as: the academic insertion of the biological sciences and the related debate with the natural sc...
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PMID: 21189661
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Vojnosanitetski pregled (66)11 2009
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As there seems to be a recurrent feeling of crisis in psychology, its present state is analyzed in this article. The author believes that in addition to the traditional manifestations that have dogged psychology since it emerged as an independent science some new features of the crisis have emerged....
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PMID: 19067090
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Psicothema (21)1 2009
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Comparative analysis of the efficacy of a playful-narrative program to teach mathematics at pre-school level. In this paper, the effectiveness of a programme comprising several components that are meant to consolidate mathematical concepts and abilities at the pre-school level is analyzed. The instr...
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PMID: 19178859
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Victorian Studies (51)2 2009
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This essay examines the complex tangle of emotional and scientific attachments that linked Darwin and botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. Analyzing their roles as husbands, fathers, and novel readers demonstrates that possessing and expressing sympathy was as important for Victorian naturalists as it was...
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PMID: 19824199
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For many scholars, the Cartesian mind/body split is one of the fundamental mistakes of the Western scientific tradition. Anthropologists who study notions of the body in cultures around the world regularly take Descartes as their point of departure. Many also suggest that breaking free from Descarte...
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PMID: 19271351
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Visual Neuroscience (26)1 2009
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I trace briefly the history of this transition, from physical sciences to biology, and argue that progress in modern biology can be accelerated if there is far more meaningful crosstalk between the biologists and the physical scientists, simply because biology has become far more complex and interdi...
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PMID: 19718626
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Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics and immediate responses to environmental challenges has offered a promise of protagonism of human beings and their fellow travellers, the other organisms, in the evolutionary process. Darwin's theory about evolution by natural selection...
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PMID: 21032945
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Once the preliminaries of peace had been signed in January 1783, after the war of American independence, exchanges between British and French men of science resumed their normal course. On a visit to Paris in 1783, the francophile Charles Blagden (with the encouragement of Joseph Banks) made a numbe...
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PMID: 19244920
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British Journal for the History of Science (41)151 Pt 4 2008
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This article explores the enticement of consumers for natural philosophy (buyers of books, audiences at public lectures and purchasers of instruments) in London between 1695 and 1720 through advertisements placed in two political newspapers. This twenty-five-year period witnessed both the birth of p...
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PMID: 19391417
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The synaptonemal complex (SC) is a proteinaceous structure that physically holds the two homologous chromosomes together during meiotic prophase. First observed in 1956 by Montrose J. Moses (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina) in meiotic prophase spermatocytes of crayfish, the SC was found in m...
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PMID: 19088821
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Journal of Dental Education (72)11 2008
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The number of applicants to dental schools in the United States continues to rise at a double-digit rate, 12 percent from 2005 to 2006 and 14 percent from 2006 to 2007. The number of applicants to the 2006 and 2007 years' entering classes of U.S. dental schools was 12,500 and 13,700, respectively. T...
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PMID: 19043889
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The article presents a brief introduction to "Science and Music", theme of the 44th symposium of the "Society for History of Sciences" held in Munich in May 2007. The text begins with a brief reference to the numerous biographical connections between the two fields, but focuses primarily on topics t...
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PMID: 19048719
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Psychological Reports (102)2 2008
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The effects of cinematic female role models on self-confidence in own abilities, interest, and academic elective intents of secondary school pupils were analyzed in two studies. In Study 1 the participants (N = 283) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups. Each group watched a film after which they...
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PMID: 18567221
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How are scientists made? How, as young adults, have they discovered a scientific vocation and career? Through formal schooling, typically; but in the field sciences also through practical apprenticeship--through work. This essay presents the story of a frontier farm lad who became a career naturalis...
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PMID: 18505022
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Natural science in East Asia formed a unique field of study called the study of shushu, which consisted of various fields of natural science and divinations derived from the Yijing [Chinese characters: see text]. Though the study of shushu is a field peculiar to East Asia where people want to evalua...
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PMID: 19044000
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Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica : a Magyar Pszichofarmakologiai Egyesulet lapja = official journal of the Hungarian Association of Psychopharmacology (10)1 2008
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We analyze the quantitative rate of the parts devoted to the humanities, the natural sciences and technology, respectively, the degree to which these parts were completed in this encyclopedia. In particular, we investigate the role of mathematicians and their reasons to find a classification for the...
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PMID: 19044041
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We can find similar ways of reading in the works of Lucretius and Cardano which young Beeckman read repeatedly. Beeckman learned the way of explaining natural phenomena with atomism from Lucretius' De rerum natura, and the way of explaining mechanics with natural philosophy and of demonstrating the...
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PMID: 19244740
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Lysenkoism in Poland was never an autonomous phenomenon. The whole array of reasons for which it appeared in Polish science would require a separate study--here it only needs to be pointed out that the major reasons included terror on the part of the security service, lawlessness, the ubiquitous atm...
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PMID: 19244738
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The biographical notes of the two municipal physicians of Schweinfurt, Leonhard Bausch (1574 to 1636) and Johann Laurentius Bausch (1605-1665) and another three physicians (Johann Michael Fehr, Georg Balthasar Wohlfarth and Georg Balthasar Metzger) who founded the Academia Naturae Curiosorum togethe...
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PMID: 20617608
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This article questions the widely disseminated thesis that the rise of learned academies in Germany, as elsewhere, was a result of insufficient scholarly achievement on the part of the universities, particularly in the natural sciences. An examination of individual universities and professors, howev...
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PMID: 20617609
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Founded in 1652, the Academia Naturae Curiosorum fiercely defended this name, which it wished to bear. On the occasion of the founder's 400th birthday, this article will try to examine the objectives of the concept of academia and the understanding of curiositas in its historical context, with a foc...
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PMID: 20617610
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The development of scientific academies during the 17th century in the old Italian States is illustrated on the basis of two examples: that of the Accademia dei Lincei with seat in Rome and that of the Accademia del Cimento with seat in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. After a short survey of their activ...
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PMID: 20617611
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When the Royal Society was founded in November 1660 it took scientific societies already existing in other European countries as its model. However, at a time when the new mathematical and experimental sciences were still generally without a secure institutional foundation there was also great inter...
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PMID: 20617612
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In 1666, the Paris Academy of Sciences was founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert. This foundation had several political and scientific dimensions, which will be discussed in a synthetic way. The intellectual and scientific activity which took place in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century wi...
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PMID: 20617613
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This paper deals with the stupendous and strange fact, that up to now the general history was not been noticing the oldest European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, which was founded in 1652 and has been continuously active since their establishment. In the most cases the Leopol...
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PMID: 20617614
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The Bausch reception created a double image: On the one hand he is appreciated as the outstanding founder of the Academy (later called Leopoldina) with its most important impact on the history of science, on the other hand he appears as a rather mediocre doctor and natural scientist, an "uninteresti...
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PMID: 20617615
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For some time a hightened interest in so-called "curiosity cabinets" of the 16th to 18th century has surfaced in the historical sciences as well as in exhibitions with popular appeal, the arts and literature. Johann Laurentius Bausch was among those who assembled such a collection of natural history...
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PMID: 20617616
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The leges of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, valid until 1670, exist in three transmissions (part I): a manuscript of Metzger in 14 paragraphs (1651/1652), one of Bausch and Fehr in 15 paragraphs, printed in the history of the academy by Büchner (1755), and the version of 18 paragraphs amended and...
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PMID: 20617617
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Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenhaimb, academical learned physician of Breslau, offered his cooperation in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in 1658. In his letter of application he praised the programme of the academy and specified in this place and more detailed in the praeloquium of his Ampelographia...
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PMID: 20617618
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By means of indications this paper stresses the importance of the founder's father of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, Leonhard Bausch, for the academy founded 16 years after his death. The long array of the monographs of predecessors, listed by Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenhaimb, whereof nearly the...
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PMID: 20617619
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The article investigates the correspondence between members of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum and Henry Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society, from 1670 until his death in 1677. In these years Oldenburg, originally a citizen of Bremen, continued to give support to fellow-countrymen such as...
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PMID: 20617620
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