Browsing by Subject "history of science"
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An analysis of navigational instruments in the Age of Exploration: 15th century to mid-17th century (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)During the Age of Exploration, navigation evolved from a field filled with superstition into a modern science in Portugal, Spain, and England. The most common navigation instruments utilized and their subsequent innovations ...
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(2021-12-10)The first trans-Atlantic exchanges of flora and fauna occurred on Christopher Columbus’ initial journey to the American continent in 1492 and initiated a process that Alfred Crosby has termed the “Columbian Exchange”. ¹ ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation looks at Aristotelian political thinkers of the later Middle Ages and argues that they meet all of the criteria of a mature Kuhnian science. Scholars of medieval Europe have spent decades arguing over ...
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(2010-07-14)This thesis argues that 17th century polymath Sir Kenelm Digby treats his scientific discourses as psychological romances in his works Loose Fantasies and Two Treatises, with his use of courtly romantic tropes, and that ...