Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "history of science"

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    • Bibliography as Anthropometry: Dreaming Scientific Order at the fin de siècle 

      Csiszar, Alex Attila (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
      The 1890s saw an explosion of ambitious projects to build a massive classification of knowledge that would serve as a basis for universal catalogues of scientific publishing. The largest of these were the rival International ...

    • Deconstructing, Reconstructing, Preserving Paul E Meehl's Legacy of Construct Validity 

      Maher, Brendan Arnold; Gottesman, Irving I. (American Psychological Association, 2005)
      The question of the status of cause-and-effect explanations of human behavior that posit physically existing causative factors and those that, on the other hand, posit hypothetical entities in the form of "useful fictions" ...

    • Physical-Organic Chemistry: A Swiss Army Knife 

      Whitesides, George McClelland (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      “Physical-organic chemistry” is the name given to a subfield of chemistry that applies physical-chemical techniques to problems in organic chemistry (especially problems involving reaction mechanisms). “Physical-organic” ...