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Age of Wonder is a fascinating book
I’m about halfway through Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. Holmes uses the stories of an inter-related set of individual British scientists: the aristocratic botanist and administrator Joesph Banks, … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Wonder, book review, history of science, Humphry Davy, Joesph Banks, Richard Holmes, social history, William Hershel
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A history of Stommel diagrams
Tiffany Vance and Ronald Doel have traced the history of the Stommel diagram from physical oceanography into biology, in their 2010 paper Graphical Methods and Cold War Scientific Practice: The Stommel Diagram’s Intriguing Journey from the Physical to the Biological … Continue reading
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Tagged Buz Brock, C.S. Holling, Craig Allen, cross-scale, Elena Bennett, Frances Westley, Garry Peterson, history of science, John Steele, Lance Gunderson, Line Gordon, oceanography, panarchy, Ronald Doel, scale, Steve Carpenter, stommel diagram, Tiffany Vance, W.C. Clark
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