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The Passing Away Of Nature: Two Essays On Natural History, Domenic Hutchins

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis begins by examining the natural-historical character of Theodor Adorno’s thought and corpus, 1931–1969, by way of engaging the centennial of the October Russian Revolution. In the first three chapters we attempt to read Adorno’s corpus as écriture or writing whereupon unconscious writing of history is transcribed. This literary-driven approach to Adorno’s work highlights the primacy of history for his thought, whence his late-Marxism issues that culminates in what we call a politics of experience. Given the historical experience we seek to make legible heretofore, in chapter four we briefly turn to the hyper-object of ongoing and future anthropogenic …

Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

For over two months during the summer of 1880, eight young members of the Champlain Society made daily excursions, on foot and by boat, around Mount Desert Island. They collected plants and birds, and dredged small animals from the mud of Somes Sound. They stared at the rocks along shore and took photographs. Under the leadership of “Captain” Charles Eliot, son of Harvard President Charles William Eliot, the students were on the Island for the summer to “do some work in some branch of natural history or science.”

Threshold 9? Teaching Possible Futures, Philip Novak, Martin Anderson, J. May, Richard Simon, Neal Wolfe, Kiowa Bower, Debbie Daunt

Philip Novak

Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt

Maine Sea Grant Publications

For over two months during the summer of 1880, eight young members of the Champlain Society made daily excursions, on foot and by boat, around Mount Desert Island. They collected plants and birds, and dredged small animals from the mud of Somes Sound. They stared at the rocks along shore and took photographs. Under the leadership of “Captain” Charles Eliot, son of Harvard President Charles William Eliot, the students were on the Island for the summer to “do some work in some branch of natural history or science.”

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

Education Faculty Publications

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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