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The following is a list of all entries from the History category.
Review: The Gilded Dinosaur, Mark Jaffe
Filed in Book Reviews, History, May 21, 2009, 7:30 pmAmerican science was largely a phenomenon of the latter half of the 19th Century. Before the Civil War, Harvard and Yale held an almost complete monopoly on university science in the United States, though their own scientific output was still dwarfed by the work of scattered amateurs in local academies and traveling Europeans. Through the [...]
Doing it in Your Sleep
Filed in History, April 15, 2009, 8:10 pmI’ve found myself doing a fair amount of reading in the history of paleontology recently, and I’ve come across two interesting cases of paleontologists dreaming up reconstructions of their fossils. The first involves the famous Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz. While he was still in Europe working on his monumental Researches sur les poissons fossiles, he [...]
Review: The Jesuit and the Skull, Amir Aczel
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, History, Human Evolution, March 19, 2008, 8:02 pmI finished Amir Aczel’s The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man today, and I decided to write up a review/reflection sort of thing. I haven’t decided exactly which yet. I’ve thought about adding a feature like this before and I enjoyed doing it, so you might conceivably [...]
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