“We have taken the liberty to add to this manual, a kind of classic legislative tablet, or memorandum. It will serve for private use, by me...
Showing posts with label HOS/STS in US History/American Studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOS/STS in US History/American Studies. Show all posts
On Eclipses and Scientific Thinking: Simon Newcomb, Mark Twain, Ernst Mayr, and Bing Crosby
What do Newcomb, Twain, Mayr, and Crosby have in common? No, they aren't a 60s folk rock band. The answer is that they all tell us somet...
The Strength of American Materials -- An Environmental History of Engineering Science
From the Franklin Institute's General Report on the Explosions of Steam-Boilers One of the many pleasures of writing "Tocqu...
Tocqueville's Ghost
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences recently gave me the opportunity to review three thought-provoking books and in the process m...
Brooke Hindle on Early American Science
This retrospective look (from the 1980s, it seems, by Brooke Hindle ) at the mid-twentieth-century origins of the history of science in ear...
(Capitalist) Numbers to Narratives
Lee kicked of a lively discussion Friday as he wondered what the history of capitalism had to say to the history of technology, (medicine?)...
JAH Reviews (Dec. 2011)
I'm interested in thinking about the ways that history of science wins a place in broader conversations in American history. As part of ...
HOS in the EASA
[UPDATED] I'm on the lookout for history of science or science studies topics escaping into US history or American studies venues and p...
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