Philosophical Apparatus Research Articles

Commodities for the classroom: Apparatus for science and education in Antebellum America

Summary The connections between science and education, disciplines which are usually considered separately, were particulary strong in the U.S.A. in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Many American scientists at that time were employed as educators, and interested in matters of pedagogy. Like educators they were interested in popularizing their subject, and promoting it into a profession. The overlapping of science and education was especially evident in the area of apparatus. The philosophical apparatus that American scientists were acquiring at a great rate might be considered scientific. In fact, it was often used for public demonstrations of natural philosophy, and seldom used for the advancement of science. In many instances this apparatus was indistinguishable from that developed for the educational reform known as object teaching. The proliferation of this apparatus was furthered by a growing apparatus industry operating within a growing consumer culture.

Eloquence and Education: A Humanist Approach to Hagiography

We have learnt long since that the pioneers of humanism in early Renaissance Italy are not to be regarded as atheists, pagans, or even non-conformists. Some might be cynical about the institutional and political Church with which as Italians, and not infrequently as ecclesiastical employees, they were all too familiar, but they were not looking to disturb the Church in its role as one of the pillars of established society. If as intellectuals they were critical of the language and philosophical apparatus in which the Church had elaborated its doctrines, this did not usually imply scepticism of the revealed truths that were presumed to be enshrined in dogma or rejection of the rituals and practices of the Church, whatever dangers to the faith conservatives might claim to see in their classical enthusiasm. Among these familiar and respected practices, to the early humanists as to their contemporaries, was the veneration of the saints. Old saints were venerated and new saints made in fifteenth-century Italy as elsewhere, and occasionally they furnished subjects to a man classifiable by his education and professional expertise as a humanist.

The Apparatus of Science at Harvard 1765–1800

D P Wheatland London: Oxford University Press 1969 pp xi + 192 price £9 10s From 1765 to 1800, at a time when the skill of English manufacturers of mathematical instruments, including Adams, Dollond, Ellicott, W and S Jones, Martin, Nairne, Sisson and Short, was unrivalled in Europe, a stream of their elegant fabrications crossed the Atlantic to replace the philosophical apparatus that had been destroyed by a fire in Harvard Hall in 1764. As the fortunate result of a college policy which made each successive professor of natural philosophy personally responsible for the equipment he took over, much of this apparatus has survived, but its significance for the history of science in general and of science teaching at Harvard in particular was recognized only when the author of the present volume initiated a move for its collection, repair, documentation and exhibition.

Albert Camus and the Rights of Man

Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussionAlbert Camus and the Rights of ManThomas Landon ThorsonThomas Landon Thorson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 74, Number 4Jul., 1964 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/291504 Views: 17Total views on this site Copyright 1964 University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Museum of the History of Science Oxford

NEARLY twenty-five years ago the Lewis Evans Collection of historic scientific instruments was opened at Oxford by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, president of the Society of Antiquaries. The collection consisted chiefly of astrolabes, dials and mathematical instruments, and was at once augmented by the transfer of many interesting pieces of philosophical apparatus’ from many of the Oxford colleges. Dr. R. T. Gunther, the curator, was most assiduous and persuasive in acquiring interesting exhibits, and it was not long before the collection had outgrown the Musæum Ashmoleanum in which it had so suitably been placed. In 1935 the Lewis Evans Collection became the Museum of the History of Science, and the need for further space was met by the promise that the whole of the Old Ashmolean Building would be transferred to the Museum in 1942, thus trebling the space available. Unfortunately, Dr. Gunther did not live to see this promise fulfilled, for he died in Kerch 1940, leaving the Museum and his fourteen volumes of “Early Science in Oxford’ as a lasting memorial to his labours for the history of science. The War delayed the occupation of the Museum's new galleries ; and even after the Ministry of Labour had vacated the building, it was necessary to instal a new system of lighting and heating. Thus it was not until October 11 of the present year that the collections were permanently arranged and, by a happy concurrence, opened by the present Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, chairman of the National Art Collections Fund.

Joseph Priestley as an historian of science, with some account of his philosophical apparatus existing at the present time

Joseph Priestley as an historian of science, with some account of his philosophical apparatus existing at the present time

The boy's play book of science, including the various manipulations and arrangements of chemical and philosophical apparatus required for the successful performance of scientific experiments in illustration of the elementary branches of chemistry and natural philosophy

The boy's play book of science, including the various manipulations and arrangements of chemical and philosophical apparatus required for the successful performance of scientific experiments in illustration of the elementary branches of chemistry and natural philosophy Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s2-VIII, Issue 209, 31 December 1859, Page 542, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s2-VIII.209.542b Published: 31 December 1859

Report of the judges on philosophical apparatus

Report of the judges on philosophical apparatus