Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 492.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:32:39 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [With Web
Pointers]
Greetings Scholars,
[Following are the fresh new books -IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY FROM THE MIT PRESS. -If anybody wants more information
regarding the below books and other infos, then please contact Jud
Wolfskill at at <wolfskil@mit.edu> Thanks.]
[some useful pointers..regarding "history of art, science and technology"
are below. Have fun]
Museum of the History of Science at University of Oxford
<http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/>
The Institute and Museum of History of Science at Florence Italy
<http://galileo.imss.firenze.it>
Dipartimento Di Astronomia, Universita Du Bologna (where great semiotic
thinker, Prof. Umberto Eco is working)
<http://www.bo.astro.it/dip/Library/archives.html>
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
<http://dibinst.mit.edu/>
A guide to Research Materials in the History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine <http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MCK/GUIDES/history_science.html>
The British Academy
<http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/>
History of Art and Architecture: College of Letters & Science UC Santa
Barbara <http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/>
History of Art and Architecture: University of Pittsburgh
<http://www.pitt.edu/~arthome/index.html>
History of Art Web: University of Pennsylvania
<http://www.arth.upenn.edu/>
Book, "The Ascent of Science", by Brian L. Silver, is a fascinating and
highly accessible history of science from the Renaissance to the present.
<http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195134273.html> [Named an Outstanding
Academic Book for 1999 by Choice]
Book, "The Oxford Companion to American Military History", edited by John
Whiteclay Chambers, II..this book is a comprehensive one-volume reference
work on US military history, ranging from Bunker Hill to Khe Sanh with
extensive coverage of the social and cultural impact of war.
<http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195071980.html>
Oxford Art Journal
<http://www.oup-usa.org/journals/arthis/artjournal.html>
Journal of Design History
<http://www.oup-usa.org/journals/arthis/designhist.html>
Journal of the History of Collections
<http://www.oup-usa.org/journals/arthis/histcollect.html>
[I think, the above pointers might be useful to the academics.]
Sincerely Yours
Arun Tripathi
Cyberexplorer
Research Scholar
UNI DO, GERMANY
Gracious surfer
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Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time
A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/EDGXPS00>
Insightful scientist, exceptional teacher, ingenious inventor, successful
entrepreneur, and acclaimed artist-Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, chief
developer of the electronic strobe, was all of these. Whatever his guise,
he taught by his own example that science is an exciting adventure in
which having fun and satisfying one's curiosity are important parts of
even the most "technical" enterprise. This CD-ROM captures Edgerton's
spirit and vision.
CD-ROM ISBN 0-262-55031-8
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
edited by N. M. Swerdlow
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In the ancient world, the collection and study of celestial phenomena and
the intepretation of their prophetic significance, especially as applied
to kings and nations, were closely related sciences carried out by the
same scholars. Both ancient sources and modern research agree that
astronomy and celestial divination arose in Babylon. Only in the late
nineteenth century, however, did scholars begin to identify and decipher
the original Babylonian sources, and the process of understanding those
sources has been long and difficult. This volume presents recent work on
Babylonian celestial divination and on the Greek inheritors of the
Babylonian tradition.
6 x 9, 410 pp., 58 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-19422-8
Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology
A Natural History of Rape
Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/THOUHS00>
In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use
evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new
approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved
adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary
question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other
adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape
circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate
choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims,
especially young women.
6 x 9, 272 pp., cloth ISBN 0-262-20125-9
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