“A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry”
in Breaking Through
May 2006; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 4899 words.
The shortest of Edward F. Ricketts's three philosophical essays—the 1939 version reproduced in this chapter is a fourteen-page typescript—“A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry” represents an attempt to...
Abiotic Constraints for Wetland Plants and Animals
in Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands
August 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 12441 words.
Wetland habitats can be stressful places for plants and animals to live, although most wetland organisms are well adapted to cope with the environmental challenges posed. The two most important...
Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion
in Genesis Redux
August 2007; published online March 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 4450 words.
This chapter demonstrates how mechanist physiologists such as Giovanni Borelli and Charles Perrault, who followed René Descartes in taking the machine as the model of intelligibility,...
Academic General Practice in Ireland
in Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000
May 2011; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 2837 words.
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Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000
May 2011; published online September 2012.
Book. Subjects: history of science. 168 pages.
Although General Practice is the commonest career choice for medical graduates, and the majority of encounters between doctors and patients take place in general practice, there was no formal...
Accident Prone
June 2009; published online March 2013.
Book. Subjects: history of science. 336 pages.
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the...
Accuratior Disquisitio
in On Sunspots
October 2010; published online March 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 21143 words.
This chapter discusses the contents of Christoph Scheiner's Accuratior Disquisitio. In this series of letters, Scheiner used the foundations laid astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini in his E...
Acoustics
in The Crafting of the 10,000 Things
May 2011; published online March 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 11195 words.
This chapter demonstrates the original structure and actual dynamics of Song Yingxing's knowledge presentation. It engages with the physicality of sound in Song's concept of qi, his idea of...
Actual causes on trial (1834–39)
in Worlds Before Adam
July 2008; published online March 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 9101 words.
This chapter focuses on Charles Lyell's success with actual causes of another kind, namely those that literally underlay the movements of the earth's crust. The question of crustal...
Admissibility, Controversy, and Judicial Metascience
in Truth Machine
January 2009; published online March 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 5411 words.
This chapter summarizes key U.S. federal legal decisions about the admissibility of expert evidence. It analyzes the Supreme Court cases Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Kumho Tire...