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History, Humanity, and Evolution
Posted on February 19, 2014 1 Comment
In a festschrift honoring John C. Greene, most well-known for his seminal volumes, The Death of Adam: Evolution and its Impact on Western Thought (1959) and Science, Ideology and World View: Essays in the History of evolutionary Ideas (1981), James R. Moore (ed.) has collected thirteen essays in History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John […]
Historiographies of the History of the Scientific Revolution
Posted on October 22, 2013 1 Comment
At the beginning of my research, I decided to start where I started many years ago, before I even began my time as an undergraduate. I cannot now remember how I came across it, but when I encountered John Henry’s The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (2002) in my early twenties, I […]