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Kinds Of Science And Exploring The Past, Channon Visscher
Kinds Of Science And Exploring The Past, Channon Visscher
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
"Working alongside experimental and observational work, historical science helps us continue to learn the unfolding story of how a beautiful universe, created by a loving God, came to be as we see it today."
Posting about scientific methods from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/kinds-of-science-and-exploring-the-past/
Against Common Sense, Channon Visscher
Against Common Sense, Channon Visscher
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
"Scientific inquiry... allows for the exploration of phenomena that would otherwise remain beyond human intuition."
Posting about beauty and truth in creation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/against-common-sense/
Book Review: Shoot The Moon: A Complete Guide To Lunar Imaging, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Shoot The Moon: A Complete Guide To Lunar Imaging, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Shoot the Moon: a Complete Guide to Lunar Imaging by Dupont-Bloch, Nicolas. Cambridge, 2016, 323 p index, 9781107548442 $39.95, 9781316657867 $32.00.
Book Review: From The Realm Of The Nebulae To Populations Of Galaxies: Dialogues On A Century Of Research, Astrophysics And Space Science Library, 435, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies : Dialogues on a Century of Research, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 435. by Mauro D'Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, and Simone Zaggia Springer, 2016 785p bibl index afp, 9783319310046 $279.00, 9783319310060 $219.00
Book Review: The International Atlas Of Mars Exploration: From Spirit To Curiosity: V.2: 2004 To 2014, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The International Atlas Of Mars Exploration: From Spirit To Curiosity: V.2: 2004 To 2014, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: from Spirit to Curiosity : V.2: 2004 to 2014 by Philip J. Stooke. 444p bibl index, 9781107030930 $145.00, 9781139344470 LC Call Number: 1000
Book Review: How Do You Find An Exoplanet?, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: How Do You Find An Exoplanet?, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of How Do You Find an Exoplanet? by John Asher Johnson. Princeton, 2016 178p bibl index afp, 9780691156811 $35.00, 9781400873999
Lunar Stories: The Violence Of Creation, Channon Visscher
Lunar Stories: The Violence Of Creation, Channon Visscher
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
"Tales of the moon’s creation abound in myth, legend, history and science. Given its conspicuous brightness and nearness, we should not be surprised that the moon has captured the imagination since the dawn of human consciousness."
Posting about how the moon was made from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/lunar-stories-the-violence-of-creation/
Book Review: Moons Of The Solar System: From Giant Ganymede To Dainty Dactyl, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Moons Of The Solar System: From Giant Ganymede To Dainty Dactyl, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Moons of the Solar System : from Giant Ganymede to Dainty Dactyl by James A. Hall, III. Springer 2015. 297p index afp, 9783319206356 $34.99, 9783319206363 $19.99
Book Review: The Scientific Exploration Of Venus, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The Scientific Exploration Of Venus, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The Scientific Exploration of Venus, by Fredric W. Taylor. Cambridge, 2014 295p bibl index, 9781107023482 $48.00
Dual-Spacecraft Reconstruction Of A Three-Dimensional Magnetic Flux Rope At The Earth's Magnetopause, H. Hasegawa, B. U. Ö. Sonnerup, S. Eriksson, T. K. M. Nakamura
Dual-Spacecraft Reconstruction Of A Three-Dimensional Magnetic Flux Rope At The Earth's Magnetopause, H. Hasegawa, B. U. Ö. Sonnerup, S. Eriksson, T. K. M. Nakamura
Dartmouth Scholarship
We present the first results of a data analysis method, developed by Sonnerup and Hasegawa (2011), for reconstructing three-dimensional (3-D), magnetohydrostatic structures from data taken as two closely spaced satellites traverse the structures. The method is applied to a magnetic flux transfer event (FTE), which was encountered on 27 June 2007 by at least three (TH-C, TH-D, and TH-E) of the five THEMIS probes near the subsolar magnetopause. The FTE was sandwiched between two oppositely directed reconnection jets under a southward interplanetary magnetic field condition, consistent with its generation by multiple X-line reconnection. The recovered 3-D field indicates that a …
Book Review: Planetary Rings: A Post-Equinox View 2nd Ed, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Planetary Rings: A Post-Equinox View 2nd Ed, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Planetary Rings : a Post-Equinox View 2nd Ed. by Larry W. Esposito, Cambridge, 2014 246p bibl index, 9781107028821 $120.00
Book Review: Cosmic Dawn: The Search For The First Stars And Galaxies, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Cosmic Dawn: The Search For The First Stars And Galaxies, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Cosmic Dawn : the Search for the First Stars and Galaxies by George Rhee, springer, 2013. 279p, 9781461478126 $39.99, 9781461478133 $29.99.
Book Review: Robotic Exploration Of The Solar System: Pt. 4: The Modern Era, 2004-2013, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Robotic Exploration Of The Solar System: Pt. 4: The Modern Era, 2004-2013, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Robotic Exploration of the Solar System : Pt. 4: the Modern Era, 2004-2013 by Paolo Ulivi with David Harland Springer, 2014 567p bibl index afp, 9781461448112 $44.99, 9781461448129 $29.99
Book Review: The Observer's Guide To Planetary Motion: Explaining The Cycles Of The Night Sky, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The Observer's Guide To Planetary Motion: Explaining The Cycles Of The Night Sky, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion : Explaining the Cycles of the Night Sky by Dominic Ford. Springer, 2014 240p index afp, 9781493906284 $34.99.
Book Review: Heart Of Darkness: Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Invisible Universe, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Heart Of Darkness: Unraveling The Mysteries Of The Invisible Universe, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Heart of Darkness : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton Princeton, 2013 299p, 9780691134307 $27.95, 9781400844647 $27.95
Discontinuities And Alfvenic Fluctuations In The Solar Wind, G. Paschmann, S. Haaland, B. Sonnerup, T. Knetter
Discontinuities And Alfvenic Fluctuations In The Solar Wind, G. Paschmann, S. Haaland, B. Sonnerup, T. Knetter
Dartmouth Scholarship
We examine the Alfvenicity of a set of 188 solar wind directional discontinuities (DDs) identified in the Cluster data from 2003 by Knetter (2005), with the objective of separating rotational discontinuities (RDs) from tangential ones (TDs). The DDs occurred over the full range of solar wind velocities and magnetic shear angles. By performing the Walen test in the de Hoffmann–Teller (HT) frame, we show that 77 of the 127 crossings for which a good HT frame was found had plasma flow speeds exceeding 80 % of the Alfven speed at an average angular deviation of 7.7◦; 33 cases had speeds …
The Ever Changing Shape Of The Universe: A Kuhnian Analysis Of Edwin Hubble's Discoveries, John Bugnacki
The Ever Changing Shape Of The Universe: A Kuhnian Analysis Of Edwin Hubble's Discoveries, John Bugnacki
Spring 2013, Kuhn's Philosophy of Science
Thomas Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, sought to explain how science changes, functions, and advances. According to Kuhn, science periodically undergoes a paradigm-shift during which time the prevailing methodologies, theories, and commitments of normal-science are all thrown into question until a new dominant paradigm takes hold. However, as his career progressed and his critics railed against his new conception of scientific progress, Kuhn would emphasize the role of linguistic incommensurability in paradigm shifts over normal-science. In 1923, astronomer Edwin Hubble took the first steps toward the discovery of galaxies. In doing so, Hubble simultaneously drew upon …
Book Review: Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies Of The Solar System And Beyond, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies Of The Solar System And Beyond, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Weird Worlds : Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond by David A. J. Seargent. Springer, 2013 309p, 1461470633 $34.95, 9781461470632 $34.95.
Book Review: Astronomy At The Frontiers Of Science, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Astronomy At The Frontiers Of Science, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science, edited by Jean-Pierre Lasota, Springer, 2011. 357p, 9789400716575 $179.00.
Book Review: New Eyes On The Universe: Twelve Cosmic Mysteries And The Tools We Need To Solve Them, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: New Eyes On The Universe: Twelve Cosmic Mysteries And The Tools We Need To Solve Them, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of New Eyes on the Universe : Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them by Stephen Webb. Springer/Praxis, 2012 371p, 9781461421931 $44.95, 9781461421948
Book Review: The International Atlas Of Mars Exploration: The First Five Decades: V.1: 1953 To 2003, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The International Atlas Of Mars Exploration: The First Five Decades: V.1: 1953 To 2003, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The International Atlas of Mars Exploration: the First Five Decades : V.1: 1953 to 2003 by Philip J. Stooke. Cambridge, 2012 359p, 0521765536 $140.00, 9780521765534 $140.00.
Book Review: The Cambridge Atlas Of Herschel Objects, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: The Cambridge Atlas Of Herschel Objects, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects by James Mullaney and Wil Tirion Cambridge, 2011 183p, 0521138175 $35.00, 9780521138178 $35.00.
Star Messangers, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow
Star Messangers, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow
Kahn Institute Projects
Star Messengers is a musical theater work about two scientists, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, who changed our view of the universe. Writer Paul Zimet and composer Ellen Maddow have created a carnival of genres—opera, Com- media dell’Arte, Strindbergian Dream Play, and contemporary dance/theater—to produce a theatrical language that conveys the wonder of Galileo’s and Kepler’s discoveries.
While some aspects of Galileo’s life and discoveries are well known, hardly anything is popularly known of his scientific contemporaries. Johannes Kepler’s realization that the planets moved not in perfect circles, but in elliptical paths, was a leap of mind as extraordinary as …
Einstein's Life: Advanced Science And Life In The Modern Age, Shane L. Larson
Einstein's Life: Advanced Science And Life In The Modern Age, Shane L. Larson
Public Talks
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Exploring Mars: Chronicles From A Decade Of Discovery, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Exploring Mars: Chronicles From A Decade Of Discovery, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Exploring Mars : Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery by Scott Hubbard. Arizona, 2011 194p, 9780816521111 $45.00, 9780816528967 $17.95.
Children In God's House: Teaching Cosmology At A Nazarene University, Stephen Case
Children In God's House: Teaching Cosmology At A Nazarene University, Stephen Case
Faculty Scholarship – Geology
This is one of a collection of essays that attempts to articulate the common “center pole” around which Nazarene higher educators stand and the theological and pedagogical commitments that draw them together. It is one of a series of values documents for Nazarene educational institutions and was produced and reviewed by 51 faculty at 16 institutions from six countries. The title of the collection, Telos, comes from the Greek term used in the New Testament to address the perfect end, or destination, for which Christians are designed. This essay sets out how understanding and engaging with contemporary theories regarding the …
Book Review: Stars Above, Earth Below: A Guide To Astronomy In The National Parks, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Stars Above, Earth Below: A Guide To Astronomy In The National Parks, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Stars Above, Earth Below : a Guide to Astronomy in the National Parks by Tyler Nordgren. Springer/Praxis, 2010 444p, 9781441916488 $29.95.
A Planet By Any Other Name . . ., Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
A Planet By Any Other Name . . ., Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
All Faculty Scholarship
Scientific discoveries about Pluto and the rest of the universe led scientists to question Pluto’s status and ultimately to strip Pluto of its standing among planets. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s The Pluto Files masterfully weaves together the empirical, conceptual, and cultural questions surrounding Pluto’s demotion. The problem, for scientists and spectators alike, was this: there was no scientific definition of planet. This review systematizes the Pluto puzzle presented in the book and reveals its relevance for law. The questions presented by The Pluto Files – how man relates to the world, how man understands its conceptual categories, and how man …
Book Review: Finding The Big Bang, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Finding The Big Bang, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Finding the Big Bang edited by P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page Jr., and R. Bruce Partridge Cambridge, 2009 571p, 9780521519823 $80.00
Book Review: Clocks In The Sky: The Story Of Pulsars, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Clocks In The Sky: The Story Of Pulsars, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars by Geoff McNamara, Springer/Praxis, 2008 190p, 9780387765600 $29.95.