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Chelyadin, A. S. "History of computer science." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33540.

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Here are some provisions on the history of computer science. Blaise Pascal designed and constructed the Pascaline in 1642. This machine did only two arithmetic operations. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33540

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Kim, Sun Young. "Genetics instruction with history of science nature of science learning /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186971775.

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Patton, Lydia. "Hermann Cohen's history and philosophy of science." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85027.

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In my dissertation, I present Hermann Cohen's foundation for the history and philosophy of science. My investigation begins with Cohen's formulation of a neo-Kantian epistemology. I analyze Cohen's early work, especially his contributions to 19th century debates about the theory of knowledge. I conclude by examining Cohen's mature theory of science in two works, The Principle of the Infinitesimal Method and its History of 1883, and Cohen's extensive 1914 Introduction to Friedrich Lange's History of Materialism. In the former, Cohen gives an historical and philosophical analysis of the f

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Murphree, David W. "Giordano Bruno and the history of science." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41699.

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Historians of science express widely divergent interpretations of the significance of the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) to the history of science. An examination of the history of science reveals two basic schools of thought about Bruno. Specifically, historians of science disagree on the reason for Bruno’s execution at the hands of the Roman Inquisition in 1600. One school of thought, the “martyr to science” interpretation, insists that Bruno died as the direct result of his advocacy of Copernicanism. The opposing school rejects this assessment and names a variety of unorthod

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Watkins, Mark N. "Technology and the history-social science framework." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1055.

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McNulty, Christopher. "Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254.

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<p> Philosopher of science Wilfrid Sellars argues that there are two mutually exclusive images of human-in-the-world that philosophy ought to unify: the "manifest image" of common, shared experience and the "scientific image" of imperceptible objects. Process philosophy, as a metaphysical framework, is in a unique position to allow both images to sit together in dynamic tension, rather than allowing one image to collapse into the other. Not only do I maintain that process philosophy is logically robust, but I also argue that there are several instances of empirical verification of process as a

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Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin. "Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10557.

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This dissertation examines how the modern dinosaur—fully mounted, freestanding assemblages of vertebrate fossils such as we are accustomed to seeing at the natural history museum—came into being during the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing especially on the United States. But it is not just, or even primarily a history of vertebrate paleontology. Rather, I use dinosaurs as an opportunity to explore how science was embedded in broader changes that were happening at the time. In particular, I am interested in tracing how the culture of modern capitalism—the ideals, norms, and practices

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Jones, June. "Science, utility and the 'second city of the Empire' : the sciences and especially the medical sciences at Liverpool University, 1881-1925." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306608.

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Scheinfeldt, Tom. "Sites of salvage : science history between the wars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2fbddb20-5093-4a43-897b-4f89003ac874.

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During the 1920s and 1930s, science history achieved widespread cultural success, featuring prominently in universities, museums and international expositions throughout Britain, America and much of the rest of the world. Maintaining that the broad advance of interwar science history cannot be sufficiently understood without reference to its broader cultural context, it is the main contention of this thesis that both the extent and diversity of interest in science history can be more productively examined in light of a common cultural memory -- the memory of war. In the wake of the Great War s

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Perinetti, Dario. "Hume, history and the science of human nature." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38509.

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This thesis sets out to show that a philosophical reflection on history is, in the strongest possible way, an essential feature of Hume's project of a science of human nature: a philosophical investigation of human nature, for Hume, cannot be successful independently of an understanding of the relation of human beings to their history. Hume intended to criticize traditional metaphysics by referring all knowledge to experience. But it is almost always assumed that Hume means by "experience" the result of an individual's past sense perception or personal observation. Accordingly, Hume's criticis

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Baias, Maria Antoaneta. "Science and history explored by nuclear magnetic resonance." Aachen Shaker, 2009. http://d-nb.info/99887499X/04.

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Winrich, Charles. "Physics teacher use of the history of science." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/11087.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University<br>The School of Education and the Department of Physics at Boston University offer a sequence of 10 two-credit professional development courses through the Improving the Teaching of Physics (ITOP) project. The ITOP courses combine physics content, readings from the physics education research (PER) literature, and the conceptual history of physics (CHOP). ITOP participants self-report changes to their teaching practices as a result of their participation in ITOP. The purpose of this study was to verify and characterize those changes in the specific area of the

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McColl, Paul. "A curriculum design framework for science education based on the history of science /." Connect to thesis, 2003. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000604.

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Sease, Kasey Marie. "Marketing Agencies For Science: Nonprofits, Public Science Education, And Capitalism In Modern America." W&M ScholarWorks, 2021. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1627047885.

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“Marketing Agencies for Science: Nonprofits, Public Science Education, and Capitalism in Modern America” explores how the manmade environment of capitalism generated and transformed nonprofit public science education from the nineteenth century to today. Each chapter considers four untold histories of public-serving organizations—including the Smithsonian Institution and the Science Museum of Virginia—across nearly 200 years to identify common trends in, and unique transformations to, the ways that Americans teach each other about science. Ultimately, nonprofit institutions taught Americans mo

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Kim, Sang Hyun. "Making the science of global warming : a social history of climate science in Britain." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24778.

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This study describes the development of climate science in Britain during the period from the 1950s to mid 1980s, with particular respect to the topic of CO<sub>2</sub>-induced global warming. The study of climate and of its variations had traditionally been descriptive and regionally oriented, and regarded more or less as a minor branch of meteorology. With advances in numerical methods and computing technology, however, climate science was gradually transformed into a highly physics-based and mathematical science. By the late 1970s, climate science, became dominated largely by dynamical mete

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Seker, Hayati. "The Effect of Using the History of Science in Science Lessons on Meaningful Learning." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1094838671.

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McVety, Amanda Kay. "Bishop Madison and the Guardian Angels of Science." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626369.

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Ely, Joshua J. "Society and Science: Ancient Astronomy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/31.

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Astronomy is the oldest scientific field in human history. As such, it is linked heavily with Ancient History as a central part of understanding, scientific development and cultural appreciation in the world of antiquity. The goal of this thesis will be to investigate the importance of the ancient astronomers, their discoveries, the differences in cultural understandings of the universe due to environmental and political reasons, planets and the cosmos, and the impacts their discoveries had on the ancient world. Primary sources will be various writings and documents by ancient astronomers and

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Depew, Michael Lee. "The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1057.

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A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task. The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined along side art to discuss not only the similarities but, the differences. Major simi

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Mayer, Anna-Katherina. "Roots of the history of science in Britain, 1916-1950." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272332.

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Lee, Annie. "The History of Contraception: From Ancient Superstitions to Modern Science." The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626587.

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Ruggiero, Colin Ross. "Science and Natural History Film and the Larger Media Environment." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/ruggiero/RuggieroC0805.pdf.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which science and natural history films are affected by the larger media environment and in particular, concentrated ownership structures. This first part of this examination is aimed at establishing that the corporate conglomerates that own the majority of mainstream media outlets and resources have sufficient control over the media environment to warrant speaking about specialized programming like science and natural history within the context of the larger corporate-owned environment. The remainder of the paper discusses the impacts this

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Guo, Yunlong. "The structure of a metaphysical interpretation of science of history." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/115891/.

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The aim of this research is to reconstruct a metaphysical interpretation of the philosophy of history with regard to the spirit of historical thinking. The spirit of historical thinking is to emphasize the relation between what happened in the past and historical thinking about the past in the present. However, current philosophies of history, which are largely epistemologically oriented, have not adequately explored this relation. In order to investigate the relation between past and present, I refer to an Aristotelian philosophy of practice and politics, and adapt it to the domain of the phi

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Yao, Liang. "Consuming science: A history of soft drinks in modern China." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54921.

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This dissertation investigates the development of the soft drink market in China from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, with particular attention to the rise of Coca-Cola. It examines how soft drinks competed with traditional Chinese summer food and beverage such as watermelons, herbal tea, plum juice, and nutriments which were believed to have medical properties for people’s summer health, and eventually became one of the most popular types of beverages in the country. Over one hundred years in the Chinese minds, soft drinks changed from an exotic but unsavory bev

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Proctor, Hannah. "Revolutionary thinking : a theoretical history of Alexander Luria's 'Romantic science'." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/186/.

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The Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) asserted that human consciousness is formed by and participates in forming history. His explicitly Marxist approach to psychology and neurology itself emerged from a particular time and place. This thesis seeks to restore Luria’s work to its history, situating his research in its Soviet context - from the October Revolution in 1917 through the collectivisation of agriculture and Stalinist Terror to the Second World War. This PhD follows the course of Luria’s career through Soviet history, and is also structured around the deve

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Loveless, Linda H. "Staff development training for implementing a history-social science curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/848.

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Wainman, Ruth. "The faces of British science : narrating lives in science since c.1945." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61259/.

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This thesis uses archived oral history interviews to trace the identities of scientists in narratives that capture their lived experiences of science. It draws upon fifty-four life history interviews with both men and women scientists from the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' (OHBS) archive. The OHBS was first established in 2009 to address the lack of comprehensive oral history archives devoted to documenting the personal experiences and memories of professionals involved in contemporary British science. In this thesis, however, the in-depth nature of these interviews ar

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Leperlier, Henry. "Canadian science fiction, a reluctant genre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0033/NQ61856.pdf.

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Hammarin, Gabriella. "STS on STS : A Perspective of Science and Technology Studies on the STS Field Itself." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158088.

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STS, today the abbreviation for Science and Technology Studies (formerly Science, Technology and Society), is an elusive field characterized by widely varying applications and intents, highly dependent on individual people and facets, yet sharing some common aims and practices. STS has risen since the 1960s and this empirical study presents a view on STS today and a discussion on how it has developed by the analysis of five different representatives from different locations in the field of STS.

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Gould, Paula A. "Femininity and physical science in Britain, 1870-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272410.

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Caldwell, Nicola. "Poor behaviour : the American underclass in history, politics and social science." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421608.

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NEWMAN, CHINA RAE. "GENDER PERFORMANCE IN DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613347.

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This work analyzes the use and portrayal of gender in Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Stephanie Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), four dystopian works written over a period of 100 years. It questions the reasoning behind the use of gender within each of the texts and looks at the changes in the use and presentation of gendered characters in each of the novels, considering the purpose of each text and the possible reasoning behind gendered portrayals of the characters in each story. Though a chrono

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Sutton, Summer. "Entangled Bodies: Tracing the Marks of History in Contemporary Science Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5421.

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Chapter one, “Narrating Entanglement: Posthuman Agency and Subjectivity in Shane Carruth’s Filmography,” considers the resonances of independent filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two SF films, Primer (2004) and Upstream Color (2013) with the ethos of quantum entanglement through close-readings of Primer’s anti-individualistic portrayal of scientific invention and Upstream Color’s metaphorically entangled human-pig character system. Chapter two, “Race and Schrödingers’s Legacy: History is Both Alive and Dead in Hari Kunzru’s White Tears” analyzes the 2017 novel White Tears as a narrative figuration of

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Daigle, Cheryl Perusse. "A Portfolio of Science and Nature Writing." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DaigleCP2002.pdf.

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Hantz, Catherine. "Early History of Earth Science Education in New York State (1865-1910)." Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10825281.

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<p> By the end of the nineteenth century, the momentum for the idea of a more practical education better suited to life in a modern, technological world brought the first educational reform movements in the nation. Concurrent reform efforts at the state and national levels influenced both the historical development of Earth science education and the status of the Earth sciences in New York State’s secondary schools. Three themes received increasing attention: 1) the nature and college acceptance of the subjects in the secondary courses of study, 2) the time allocation for the subjects, a

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Wright, David Frank Aston. "The transmission of Western science into China 1840-1900." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283282.

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Whyte, Nicholas. "The social context of science in Ireland, 1890-1930." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361237.

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Lewis, Jeffrey William. "Continuity in German science, 1937-1972 : genealogy and strategies of the TMV/molecular biology community." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1259777082.

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Heyboer, Maarten. "Grass-counters, stock-feeders, and the dual orientation of applied science : the history of range science, 1895-1960 /." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-170844/.

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Short, Alice Isabella. "The contribution of William, Lord Armstrong to science and education." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6556/.

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William George Armstrong (1310-1900) is best remembered as the lawyer turned engineer who revolutionised ordnance during the Crimean War. Nonetheless, 'his researches, his evidence before Royal Commissions and his presidential addresses, (including that to the British Association for the Advancement of Science), are as relevant today as they were last century. Indeed, it could be argued that whereas George and Robert Stephenson were, essentially, men of the Industrial Revolution, Armstrong’s theories are .still appropriate in the space age. Apart from his extensive research into hydraulics and

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Secord, Penelope Anne. "Artisan naturalists : science as popular culture in nineteenth century England." Thesis, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271809.

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Noakes, Richard John. "'Cranks and visionaries' : science, spiritualism and transgression in Victorian Britain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272502.

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Remington, John Alvah 1942. "From classical to Baroque: Inquiry about science in America, 1930-1990." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291856.

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This essay offers an overview of the intellectual and social structures of science in the United States from the 1930s into the 1950s. It argues that Germanic immigrant scientists who fled the Nazis in the 1930s were vital in energizing a productive collegiality among scientists and reinvigorating a dialectical interplay between theorists and experimentalists, both of which characterize "classical" science. This unique intellectual contribution and the "internal dynamic" of doing science are described as becoming embedded in new social and ethical structures since World War II. New directions

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Billick, Nicole J. "M.C. Escher: a bridge between art and science." Thesis, Boston University, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27596.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Skopek, Jeffrey M. "Shaping science with the past : textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/242194.

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Science is generally not thought of as being deeply historiographical. Although it is clear that scientists frequently write about history in their work — that, for example, they identify the significance of an advance by situating it historically, or refer to a historic source of authority in order to add legitimacy to a position — it is often supposed that the historical claims of scientists are incidental to the scientific. This thesis contests basic assumptions of this view. In a study of the textbooks of twentieth century Anglo-American genetics — of a place where the canon of a science i

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Merrifield, Jeff. "Ken Campbell and the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool : an analytical history." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250438.

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Haug, Knut Hallvard Sverre. "Engineering humans : cultural history of the science and technology of human enhancement." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/210/.

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This thesis investigates the technological imaginary of human enhancement: how it has been conceived historically and the scientific understanding that has shaped it. Human enhancement technologies have been prominent in popular culture narratives for a long time, but in the past twenty years they have moved out of science fiction to being an issue for serious discussion, in academic disciplines, political debate and the mass media. Even so, the bioethical debate on enhancement, whether it is pharmacological means of improving cognition and morality or genetic engineering to create smarter peo

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Armstrong, Zoey Nicole. "Modeling distributions of Cantharellus formosus using natural history and citizen science data." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1619006107999476.

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Gevers, Nicholas David. "Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10511.

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The primary argument of this Thesis is that Science Fiction (SF) is a form of Historical Fiction, one which speculatively appropriates elements of the past in fulfilment of the ideological expectations of its genre readership. Chapter One presents this definition, reconciling it with some earlier definitions of SF and justifying it by means of a comparison between SF and the Historical Novel. Chapter One also identifies SF's three modes of historical appropriation (historical extension, imitation and modification) and the forms of fictive History these construct, including Future History and A

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Davis, Ben Jr. "History, Race and Gender in the Science Fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392045358.

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