Jesuits and the book of nature : science and education in modern Portugal / by Romeiras, Francisco Malta

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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / by Walls, Laura Dassow

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Wagner's musical prose : texts and contexts / by Grey, Thomas S.

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Biological time, historical time : Transfers and transformations in 19th century literature /

Table of Contents: “…A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences /…”
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The determinate world : Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry / by Hyder, David Jalal, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The empirical determination of physical concepts in Kant's Metaphysical foundations of natural science -- 3. Helmholtz on the comprehension of nature -- 4. …”
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"Good observers of nature" : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / by Gianquitto, Tina

Table of Contents: “…The languages of nature : an overview -- Botany's beautiful arrangement : Almira Phelps and Enlightenment science -- The pressure of hidden causes : Margaret Fuller and Romantic science -- The noble designs of nature : Susan Fenimore Cooper, natural science, and the picturesque aesthetic -- Spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : Mary Treat and evolutionary science -- Epilogue. …”
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A historical guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson /

Table of Contents: “…Mott -- Emerson, nature, and natural science / William Rossi -- Emerson and religion / David M. …”
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DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton : geology and power in early New York / by Spanagel, David I.

Table of Contents: “…Exploring New York State -- Invitations to study the Earth's past -- Natural sciences and civic virtues -- The landlord and the ex-convict -- Part II. …”
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Unredeemed land : an environmental history of Civil War and emancipation in the cotton South / by Mauldin, Erin Stewart

Wagner's melodies : aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity / by Trippett, David, 1980-

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The transformation of science in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century : physics, mathematics, poetry, and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Abraham Gottlob Werner Money, Romance, Classification (Andre Wakefield)The Physics of Coleridgean Romanticism (Dometa Wiegand Brothers); Jakob Friedrich Fries on Inference Types in the Natural Sciences (Temilo van Zantwijk); Notes on the Contributors; Index…”
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Unredeemed land : an environmental history of Civil War and emancipation in the cotton South / by Mauldin, Erin Stewart

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Victorian interpretation / by Anger, Suzy

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Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / by Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.

Table of Contents: “…Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth" -- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism -- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism" -- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory -- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth -- A queer (theory) postscript -- A queer (theory) twist : no new species -- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy -- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.…”
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Archives of origins : Sanskrit, philology, anthropology in 19th century Germany / by Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale

Table of Contents: “…V The Good and Bad Fortunes of Indo-European Comparativism -- The Promotion of the Indo-European Notion at the Time of German National Unity -- In Search of the Past of the German Nation -- The Policy of the State in Favour of Comparative Grammar -- From Kiel to Breslau, the Transformations of the Chairs of Indology in the 1870s -- German Indologists Faced with the Rise of "Aryanist" Theories -- The "Bildungsburgertum" and Bismarck's Policy -- The "Indo-Germanic People", an Epistemological Drift -- The Issue of the Original Homeland of "Indo-Germans" -- Physical Anthropology, a Cumbersome Neighbour -- From "Indo-Germanic People" to "Aryan Race" -- Philology, a Natural Science or a Human Science? -- The Controversial Sharing of Knowledge in the Era of Positivism…”
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Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / by Weinstein, Galina

Table of Contents: “…. -- 1 Einstein's Parents and Sister Maja -- 2 The Move to Munich and the Electric Firm -- 3 Rebellious and Creative -- 4 Einstein Cannot Take Authority and Demands for Obedience -- 4.1 Primary School -- 4.2 Secondary School -- 5 Einstein Teaches Himself Natural Science and Philosophy -- 5.1 Max Talmud Recommends Bernstein and Kant -- 5.2 Einstein Reads a Small Geometry Book -- 5.3 Einstein Is Free in Italy -- 6 Secondary School in Aarau -- 7 Polytechnic in Zurich -- 7.1 Professors Weber and Pernet Turn On Einstein -- 7.2 Einstein Never Shows Up or Skips the Classes of Mathematicians -- 7.3 Einstein's Friends: Grossmann, Besso and Maric -- 7.4 Einstein's Residence in Zurich -- 8 Einstein Seeks a Position -- 8.1 The Rebel Graduate Einstein Is Rejected -- 8.2 Professor Weber Is Behind Einstein's Difficulties -- 8.3 Einstein Finds Temporary Positions and Grossmann Rescues Him -- 9 Physics Group -- 9.1 The Patent Office -- 9.2 Michele Besso, Joseph Sauter, Lucian Chavan and Heinrich Zangger -- 10 Philosophy Group -- 10.1 Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht -- 10.2 The Olympia Academy -- 10.3 The Reading List of the Academy -- 11 Annus Mirabilis -- 11.1 Letters to Habicht -- 11.2 Einstein's Annus Mirabilis Papers -- 12 German Scientists Respond to Einstein's Relativity Paper -- 12.1 Professor Max Planck Writes to Einstein -- 12.2 Max Laue Meets Einstein -- 13 Einstein Teaches His Three Friends at the University of Bern -- 13.1 Patent Clerk Rebels against Academic Rules -- 13.2 Jakob Johann Laub Meets Einstein in Bern -- 13.3 Einstein's Students: Besso and Chavan.…”
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"The first national museum" : Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century / by Murphy, Sherra

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'The First National Museum' : Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century / by Murphy, Sherra

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Fugitive science : empiricism and freedom in early African American culture / by Rusert, Britt

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Fugitive science : empiricism and freedom in early African American culture / by Rusert, Britt