“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...
aberration, stellar
in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
January 2003; published online January 2003.
Reference Entry. Subjects: history of science. 484 words.
Because the observer on the earth is often moving across the path of the incoming light from a star, the
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...
abortion/anti-abortion conflict
in Science, Technology, and Society
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: history of science. 1013 words.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade legalized induced abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy “free
Absolute space?
in The Universal Force
September 2007; published online January 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: history of science. 2130 words.
Radio astronomy, as first applied by Penzias and Wilson, showed that all space is permeated by a low level of radiation. This is left over from the big bang at the beginning of the universe and is a...
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...
academies and learned societies
in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
January 2003; published online January 2003.
Reference Entry. Subjects: history of science. 2330 words.
“Ci-gît un qui ne fut rien, pas même académicien” (“Here lies someone who was nobody, not even an academician”). This
accelerator
in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
January 2003; published online January 2003.
Reference Entry. Subjects: history of science. 995 words.
During the twentieth century physicists developed increasingly powerful artificial means to produce very high-energy particles to transform or disintegrate atoms.