MATHEMATICS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE

Anxiety and Abstraction in Nineteenth-Century Mathematics

The first part of this paper surveys the current literature in the history of nineteenth-century mathematics in order to show that the question “Did the increasing abstraction of mathematics lead to a sense of anxiety?” is a new and valid question. I argue that the mathematics of the nineteenth century is marked by a growing appreciation of error leading to a note of anxiety, hesitant at first ...

Reading about science in nineteenth century Brazil :

The aim of this text is to analyze how issues relating to the communication of science to the public were treated in a Brazilian periodical, Revista Popular, published by Livraria e casa editorial Garnier between 1859 and 1862. The science-related sections are investigated, the prologues are analyzed, the topics included in the magazine’s coverage of scientific commissions and expeditions aroun...

History of Science. Science in the Nineteenth Century

that show variations comparable to those seen among men and among apes of different species today. These variations accounted for some of the controversy of classification, especially when limited fossil material was available. In subsequent chapters the teeth, skulls and pelves are described in relation to other hominid or pongid fossils. The teeth of the australopithecines were hominoid in sh...

The problematic science: psychology in nineteenth-century thought

development of the medical schools. From the 1960s, Dowling detects a shift in which hospitals are becoming leaders in health care for their communities. Dowling has made careful use of a variety of secondary and printed primary sources. However, he has not used hospital papers and seems to have used only those primary materials to which secondary works have referred him. It is a pity, too, tha...

The patronage of science in the nineteenth century