Steel and science bring dinosaurs into the 21st century at the carnegie museum of natural history

The historical context of science and ed

The historical context of science and education at the American Museum of Natural History

✍ Jennifer D. Adams 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 479 KB

Ronald Rainger. An agenda for antiquity:

Ronald Rainger. An agenda for antiquity: Henry Fairfild Osborn & vertebrate paleon-tology at the American museum of natural history, 1890-1935. History of American Science and Technology Series. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1991. 360 pp. $37.95 (cloth) (Reviewed by David K. van Keuren)

📂 Article 📅 1993 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 237 KB 👁 2 views

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natura

Jerome Kagan. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 324 pp. $21.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521732307. Nancy J. Nersessian. Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 272 pp. $32.00 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0262141055. Ute Schönpflug (Ed.). Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 510 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-0521706575. Edward Shorter. Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0195368741. Gabriel Tarde. Sur le sommeil ou plutôt sur les rêves: Et autres textes inédits [On sleep, or rather on dreams: And other unpublished texts] (Jacqueline Carroy and Louise Salmon, Eds.). Lausanne, France: BHMS, 2009. viii, 227 pp. $25.00. (paperback). ISBN-13: 978-2-9700536-8-2

📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 39 KB

Sparked by his rereading of C. P. Snow's (1959) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Kagan's new book surveys the current status of the "two cultures" Snow described-the arts and humanities, on the one hand, and the natural sciences, on the otheras well as a third, the social sciences, wh