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Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science Series

7 primary works • 7 total works
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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson
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3.77 · 64 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 6 editions
Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of th…

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    Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball
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    3.70     · 61 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions
    Chemistry explores the way atoms interact, the con…

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    Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights
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    3.47     · 17 Ratings · published 2003 · 3 editions
    Experimentation on animals and particularly humans…

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    Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
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    4.29     · 28 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 8 editions
    In the nineteenth century, science and technology …

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    Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe
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    4.00     · 31 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
    Change in human understanding of the natural world…

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    Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
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    3.69     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 8 editions
    This book explores changing American views of race…

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    Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
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    3.80     · 59 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    A synthetic account of how science became a centra…

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