Positioning the History of Science ppt

... important challenge for the community of historians of science, and can be addressed only Positioning the History of Science 3 by enlarging the interface between science and the history of science. But ... in professional history of science journals, hold professorships in university departments of history or history of science and win prizes offere...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... eld of the history of science. In general the history of science produced before the subject was profession- alized in the twentieth century has received inadequate consideration. 19 While the ... signposts on the path of professionalization, such as the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831) and the Geological Survey (1835), have sh...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... making the works of the great poets of the Greek people the material of their education, the Athenians attained a variety of objects difficult of attainment by any other one means. The fact is, the ... sources. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Christians laid the foundations, and in the order named, and the study of the early history of our western c...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... on. Another whole class of story ideas arrives from the other direction: from outside the world of research, in the form of a question, observation, or piece of news.To under- stand the phenomenon then ... scientists, Finding Stories 33 as for the rest of us, ideas spark each other off, showing their full size only as they connect. Sometimes it’s hard to know what you thin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... needs. For example: the Insured, the Uninsured, the Doctor, the Insurance Company, the Taxpayer, the Hospital, the Residents and Medical Stu- dents, the Medical Teachers, the Makers of Medical Parapher- nalia ... is the topic of this chapter. But first, let me recommend one more attitude: The science writer and the scientist are allies, sharing a commitment to sc...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... Guaranteed, there must have been other ways to approach the issue, so what was the advan- tage of this one? The answers are always part of a larger pic- ture, about either the science or the research ... folks, too. The researcher will not mind. In fact, the better the scientific team, the more the leaders seem to want to credit the junior Research and the Intervi...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... inter- views, the machine took enough attention that my rapport with the other person suffered, plus I often lost track of the content. The problem is that, when I’m typing at the speed of speech, the ... story. But when the manuscript arrived, all the fascinat- ing facts, stories, and quotes, the cream of the story, would be conspicuous by their absence. I’d say, “W...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... magnifi- cent island.” Then I considered the essay’s title: The Island at the End of the Earth.” Hmm. In many seagoing cultures, the islands at the end of the world are where the dead and dying ... albatross ap- pears out of the east, where high dark coasts open on the ocean horizon and the last sun ray glints on the windy seas of the Drake Passage. The group...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... knowledge that could have confused the picture: the other causes of high blood pressure, for example; the other part of the kidney problem; the names of the various parts of the kidney’s cir- culatory ... Chameleons can hurl their tongues even farther than salamanders, shooting them twice the length of their bodies in less than a second [by means of a ring of mus...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... de-emphasize should go in the middle of the sentence (and paragraph). The middle of the sen- tence is the place for necessary nothings such as these: however (a slalom flag to mark the unexpected) Dr. ... by the NIH The middle of the paragraph is the place for their equivalent in full sentences. The middle also makes a good home for items that only a few readers wil...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20