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Risen Apes And Fallen Angels: The New Museology Of Human Origins, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

There has been a little explosion of "origin" exhibitions in the past few years. The recent bicentennial of Darwin's birth, in 2009, ushered in a bevy of traveling exhibitions and events. Grandscale permanent exhibitions have recently opened at the American Museum of Natural History (the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins) in New York, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins) in Washington, D.C. A new museology is afoot, and some of the recent changes are worth tracking. And let's not forget the recently opened Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Even in …

Trapped In The Creation Museum, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

Into the swampy debate over evolution has waded the new Creation Museum, in Petersburg, Ky. In an America divided between those who accept Darwin's theories and those who believe God created the world in six days, it seeks to win moderates and compromisers over to its side. Shortly after the museum opened last spring, I made a pilgrimage to witness this quirky new spectacle of Americana...

Dinosaurs On The Ark: Natural History And The New Evangelical Museum, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

This article examines the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Featured at the museum is a replica of Noah's Ark. The author notes that there is some fudging going on to fit all the supposedly transported animals in such a small vessel. According to the museum, the Grand Canyon was not millions of years in the making but appeared after the flood. The evangelical museum is an offshoot of the Answers in Genesis ministry. Ken A. Ham is the director of the museum as well as the head of the ministry. He says that the notion of evolution has done more harm …

Os Itinerários De Seis Grandes Expedições Científicas Realizadas No Brasil [The Itineraries Of Six Great Scientific Expeditions In Brazil], Karl M. Lorenz, Maria Inês H. Peixoto

Karl M Lorenz

Este trabalho apresenta representações cartográficas de seis principais expedições cientificas realizadas no Brasil entre os anos 1783 e 1866. As expedições representadas são as de Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius e Spix, Thayer, Natterer, e Wallace e Bates. Resumos breves das expedições acompanham os mapas.
This article presents cartographic representations of six major scientific expeditions conducted in Brazil between 1783 and 1866. The expeditions represented are those of Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius and Spix, Thayer, Natterer, and Wallace and Bates, and that of . Brief summaries of the expeditions accompany the maps.

Os Itinerários De Seis Grandes Expedições Científicas Realizadas No Brasil [The Itineraries Of Six Great Scientific Expeditions In Brazil], Karl M. Lorenz, Maria Inês H. Peixoto

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Este trabalho apresenta representações cartográficas de seis principais expedições cientificas realizadas no Brasil entre os anos 1783 e 1866. As expedições representadas são as de Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius e Spix, Natterer, Wallace e Bates, e a de Thayer. Resumos breves das expedições acompanham os mapas.

This article presents cartographic representations of six major scientific expeditions conducted in Brazil between 1783 and 1866. The expeditions represented are those of Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius and Spix, Natterer, Wallace and Bates, and that of Thayer. Brief summaries of the expeditions accompany the maps.

A Discourse Introductory To The Course Of Lectures On The Theory And Practice Of Physic, In Jefferson Medical College, Session Mdcccxxxii-Iii, John Revere, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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