Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and index.
Contents:
[pt]. 1. John Hill : Works of the Royal Society (1751) -- Early books and letters -- Robert Boyle : New experiments physico-mechanicall (1660) -- Robert Hooke : Micrographia (1665) -- Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek : Anatomy of fleas (1693) -- Philosophical transactions -- Henry Oldenburg & Christiaan Huygens : Pendulum-watches at sea (1665) -- Adrien Auzout : Apertures of object glasses (1665) -- Henry Oldenburg : Transfusion (1667) -- Experiments about respiration (1670) -- Isaac Newton : Theory of light and colors (1672) -- Isaac Newton : Answer to letter from Pardies (1672) -- Mr. Toyard : Sieur Bernier's flying machine (1681) -- Martin Lister : English vegetables (1697) -- John Arbuthnot : Argument for divine providence (1710) -- Benjamin Franklin : Effects of electricity in paralytic cases (1758) -- Henry Cavendish : Experiments on air (1784) -- Caroline Herschel : New comet (1787) -- On Early English scientific writing -- Thomas Sprat : History of the Royal Society (1667) -- Robert Boyle : Considerations touching experimental essays (1661) -- John Hill : Works of the Royal Society (1751) -- 3. Anonymous : Review of Three Letters on Mineralogy (1790) -- Concerning the Royal Academy in Paris -- Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel & Bernard De Fontenelle : History of the Royal Academy (1733) -- Journal of the learned -- Anonymous : Letter written from Oxford (1665) -- Anonymous : Review of Anatomical Description (1669) -- Ole Roemer : Speed of light (1676) -- Anonymous : Review of Principia (1688) -- Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences -- Denis Dodart : History of plants (1676) -- Jean Mémy : Two fetuses enclosed in the same membrane (1693) -- Antoine De Jussieu : Corispermum Hyssopifolium (1712) -- Étienne François Geoffroy : Different relationship observed in chemistry (1718) -- Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis : the figure of the earth (1737) -- Comte De Buffon : Conservation and re-establishment of forests (1739) -- Nicolas Desmarest : Nature of prismatic basalt (1771) -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier : Combustion (1771) -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier : Modern horizontal beds deposited by the sea (1789) -- 3. Internalization and specialization -- German literature -- Gottfried Leibniz : Calculation of various dimensions of figures (1684) -- Maria Sibylla Merian : Metamorphosis of insects (1705) -- Johann Heinrich Lambert : Measurement of humidity (1769) -- Anonymous : Review of Three Letters on Mineralogy (1790) -- Hermann Kolbe : "Modern" chemistry (1871) -- Benjamin Smith Barton : American species of Dipus (1799) -- Thomas Jefferson : Bones of quadruped of the clawed kind (1799) -- Caspar Wistar : Description of bones deposited by President (1799) -- Thomas Say : North American insects of the genus Cicindela (1818) -- Joseph Henry : Production of currents and sparks of electricity (1832) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes : Contagiousness of puerperal fever (1843) -- Joseph Lister : Antiseptic principle (1867) -- Specialized literature : biology -- Anonymous : Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis (1791) -- T.H. Huxley : Review of Vestiges (1854) -- Charles Lyell & J.D. Hooker : Papers by Darwin and Wallace (1858) -- Specialized literature : physics -- Julius Robert Mayer : Forces of inorganic nature (1842) -- Rudolf Clausius : Nature of motion we call heat (1857) -- Specialized literature : chemistry -- Friedrich Wöhler : Alcoholic fermentation (1839) -- Archibald Scott Couper : New chemical theory (1858) -- Hermann Kolbe : "Modern" chemistry (1871) -- 4. Pierre Curie, Marie Sklodowska Curie, & G. Bémont : New, strongly radioactive substance (1898) -- Earth science -- James Hutton : Theory of the earth (1788) -- John Playfair : Account of James Hutton (1805) -- Biological sciences -- Alfred Russel Wallace : Tendency of varieties to depart from the original (1858) -- Gregor Mendel : Plant hybridization (1866) -- Medical science -- Rudolf Virchow : Cellular pathology (1855) -- Louis Pasteur : Germ theory (1880) -- Robert Koch : Etiology of tuberculosis (1882) -- Chemistry -- Jöns Jacob Berzelius : Cause of chemical proportions (1814) -- Gustav Kirchhoff & Robert Bunsen : Analysis by observations of spectra (1860) -- August Kekulé : Composition of aromatics (1865) -- Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev : Properties and atomic weights of the elements (1869) -- Physics -- James Clerk Maxwell : Faraday's lines of force (1855) -- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen : New kind of ray (1895) -- Pierre Curie, Marie Sklodowska Curie, & G. Bémont : New, strongly radioactive substance (1898) -- Chien Liu et al. : Halted light pulses (2001) -- Equations, tables, and pictures -- Equations -- Albert Einstein : Does the inertia of a body depend on energy content? (1905) -- G.H. Hardy : Mendelian proportions in a mixed population (1908) -- Tables -- Jean Perrin : Brownian motion and molecular reality (1909) -- David Weaver et al. : Endogenous immunoglobulin gene expression (1986) -- Pictures -- Alfred Wegener : Origin of continents (1912) -- C.T.R. Wilson : Tracks of ionizing particles 91912) -- R.P. Feynman : Space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics (1949) -- Linus Pauling et al. : Structure of proteins (1951) -- H.B. Whittington : The enigmatic animal Opabinia Regalis (1975) -- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard & Eric Wieschaus : Mutations in Drosophila (1980) -- Michael B. Eisen et al. : Genome-wide expression patterns (1998) -- J.K. Webb et al. : Fine structure constant (2001) -- J. Richard Gott III et al. : Map of the universe (2003) -- 6. Organizing scientific arguments -- Beginning -- Milan N. Stojanovic & Darko Stefanovic : Deoxyribozyme-based molecular automaton (2003) -- M.K. Wu et al. : Superconductivity at 93 K (1987) -- Middle -- Oliver H. Lowry et al. : Protein measurement (1951) -- Oswald T. Avery, Colin M. McLeod, & Macyln McCarty : Transformation of pneumococcal types (1944) -- End -- Motoo Kimura : Evolutionary rate at molecular level (1968) -- M. Gell-Mann : Model of baryons and mesons (1964) -- Percy L. Julian & Joseph Pikl : Studies in the indole series (1935) -- From start to finish -- Chien Liu et al. : Halted light pulses (2001) -- 7. Andrew Wiles : Fermat's last theorem (1995) -- Norms -- W. Baade & F. Zwicky : Supernovae & cosmic rays (1934) -- E.G. Bligh & W.J. Dyer : Lipid extraction and purification (1959) -- F. Sanger et al. : Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage (1977) -- J. Guillermo Paez et al. : EGFR mutations in lung cancer (2004) -- Perturbations : playfulness -- R.A. Alpher, H. Bethe, & G. Gamow : Origin of chemical elements (1948) -- A.T. Wilson & M. Calvin : Photosynthetic cycle (1955) -- J.F. Bunnett & F.J. Kearley : Mobility of halogens (1971) -- H.M. Shapiro : Fluorescent dyes (177) -- Anonymous : Hotter than hell (1972) -- Perturbations : belligerence -- H. Dingle : Science and modern cosmology (1953) -- R.G. Breene : Erratum (1967) -- V.V. Beloussov : Against ocean-floor spreading (1970) -- Perturbations : writing with style -- William Thomson : Blue ray of sunrise (1899) -- Hugh M. Smith : Synchronous flashing of fireflies (1935) -- V. Nabokov : New or little known Nearctic neonympha (1942) -- S.J. Gould & R.C. Lewontin : Spandrels of San Marco (1979) -- Barbara McClintock : Responses of the genome (1984) -- P.J.E. Peebles & Joseph Silk : Cosmic book of phenomena (1990) -- Andrew Wiles : Fermat's last theorem (1995) -- 8. Gordon G. Globus : Dream content : random or meaningful (1991) -- Evolution controversy -- R.A. Fisher & E.B. Ford : Spread of a gene in natural conditions (1947) -- Sewall Wright : Genetics of populations (1948) -- R.A. Fisher & E. B. Ford : The "Sewall Wright effect" (1949) -- Sewall Wright : Fisher and Ford on "The Sewall Wright effect" (1951) -- Dream controversy -- Sigmund Freud : Interpretation of dreams (1900) -- Seymour Fisher & Roger P. Greenberg : Credibility of Freud's theories (1977) -- J. Allan Hobson & Robert W. McCarley : Brain as a dream state generator (1977) -- Robert W. McCarley & J. Allan Hobson : Psychoanalytic dream theory (1977) -- Antony L. Labruzza : Activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreams (1978) -- Gerald W. Vogel : Alternative view of the neurobiology of dreaming (1978) -- Gordon G. Globus : Dream content : random or meaningful (1991) -- 9. Index. Discovering crucial facts -- T.H. Morgan : Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila (1910) -- J.D. Watson & F.H.C. Crick : Structure of DNA (1953) -- H.W. Kroto et al. : Buckminsterfullerene (1985) -- Providing theoretical explanations -- H.J. Muller : Change in the gene (1922) -- Edwin Hubble : Relation between distance and velocity among nebulae (1929) -- Lise Meitner & O.R. Frisch : Disintegration of uranium by neutrons (1939) -- Raymond Davis : Solar neutrinos (1964) -- Performing thought experiments -- A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, & N. Rosen : Quantum-mechanical description (1935) -- Turning to technology -- Enrico Fermi : First chain reacting pile (1946) -- International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium: Human genome (2001) -- Bibliography -- Fifty books we recommend in science studies -- Secondary literature sources -- World Wide Web resources -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary:
Excerpts from scientific writings that illustrate the evolution of the scientific article from its origin in 1665 till today. Includes commentaries explaining the context and communication strategy.
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