William Whewell was an English philosopher and historian remembered both for his writings on ethics and for his work on the theory of...
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Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated,...
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Why did scientists endure, while sciencers perished? Philip Ball examines the quirks of science's lexical legacy.
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Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.
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Although histories of science routinely mention the birth of our word 'scientist' from the pen of William Whewell a mere 167 years ago,...
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Letters: Dr William Whewell | John Prescott | International Apostrophe Day | University vice-chancellors | Musk and Trump.
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In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory.
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I read a great article called Disciplinarity: An Introduction by David R. Shumway and Ellen Messer-Davidow. It had a sweeping overview of the history of...
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Optical singularities are all around us, hiding in plain sight in the dark zones of laser speckles and the hollow cores of annular laser beams.
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Renée Bergland's 3 greatest revelations while writing Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.
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