History of Science in United States: An Encyclopedia
- ISBN-10
- 1135583188
- ISBN-13
- 9781135583187
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 640
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-12
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Marc Rothenberg
Description
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Science in America: A Documentary History, 1900-1939
By Nathan Reingold, Ida H. ReingoldFrom this unique collection of documents emerges a fresh, intimate, often striking picture of the life of science in the United States in the era when American investigators became central...
-
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
By Hugh Richard SlottenScience, medicine, and technology have become increasingly important to the average individual in modern society. The importance of these three fields is in many ways one of the defining characteristics of modernity.
-
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950
By Karin Alejandra RosemblattIn this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples.
-
The History of Science and Technology in the United States: A Critical and Selective Bibliography
By Marc RothenbergThe History of Science and Technology in the United States: A Critical and Selective Bibliography
-
A History of Weed Science in the United States
By Robert L ZimdahlThis book expands on and analyzes how these orientations have affected weed science’s development.
-
American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War
By Jessica WangThis book is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. By examining cases of individual scientists subjected to loyalty and security investigations, the ...
-
A Little History of Science
By William BynumBoyle recognised that the things that surround us in our daily lives, such as wooden tables and chairs, and woollen dresses and hats, were made up of a variety of components, but they could not be reduced to the four Greek elements, ...
-
A Brief History of Science
By John R. GribbinThis book : "outlines the key concepts forming the core of each major branch of science, and how they were developed ; reviews the achievements of all the major figures in the history of modern science from Galileo onward ; explains the ...
-
A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition
By Andrew Ede, Lesley CormackThomas Hobbes (1588–1679), a natural philosopher as well as moralist, severely criticized the work of Boyle and Hooke. Hobbes claimed that the air pump did not work and that it in no way represented a vacuum, as they had claimed.
-
The Emergence of Science
By J. D. BernalIn this first volume Bernal discusses the nature and method of science before describing its emergence in the Stone Age, its full formation by the Greeks and its continuing growth (probably influenced from China) under Christendom and Islam ...