Articles with keyword "Science"
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Humboldt in the New World
By Anna Maria Gillis
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
By Meredith Hindley
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
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Searching for Truth: From Genesis to Genotype
Jefferson Lecturer Leon Kass describes his journey from medical school to the heart of the humanities.
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Darwin the Young Adventurer
By Janet Browne
The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.
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Great Expectations
By Yuval Levin
In the classroom and in daily life, the bioethicist believes in the best of human nature.
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Newton, The Last Magician
By Sam Kean
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.