“Front Matter: Reading and Writing the Forehead in Early Modern Literature” explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English views of the body as a text that, when read correctly, could yield diverse knowledges about people. In early modern England, the part of the body most …
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This study focuses on the significant investment in oceanography that typified Cold War Britain. Thanks to the analysis of untapped archival records, it documents the remarkable growth of marine research in the UK, and its underlying ambitions, from the end of Second World War n…
Over the course of the 1830s and 1840s, a professional scientific and medical community was coming into being. Exclusive membership, limits to the definition of science, and separation of the professional from the popular sphere became important elements in the consolidation of …
This dissertation redefines the popularity and legacy of British big game hunting in the fin-de-siècle by analyzing the sport as an imperial institution, which is interpreted to mean one that was defined through its integration with both local and metropolitan cultures. To that …
This dissertation addresses a significant gap in the historiography of science: the nature of the language sciences as "science." Focusing on disciplinary and intellectual developments in the context of Imperial Germany (1871-1918), the project anticipates, complicates, and help…
This study comprises a translation and commentary of Book I of the Planetary Hypotheseses by the second century A.D. Greco-Roman astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy. It closely examines the Planetary Hypotheses on its own and in relation to Ptolemy’s other writings. Where necessary I r…
The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teaching approaches for senior secondary biology students to learn about the nature of science (NOS): the History of Science (HOS) approach, which is the most commonly used approach in Hong Kong schools, and the Socio…
Despite being one of the world’s biggest space programs, the Japanese exploration of the cosmos remains a sadly unheralded enterprise. This is regrettable on many levels. The story of how the former empire reached for the stars in the aftermath of their defeat in World War 2 is …
In the early 1630s, René Descartes developed a speculative treatise on the functional structures of the human body and brain. His work, The Treatise on Man, constituted the first attempt at a complete human physiology, inspiring a generation of scientists and physicians who deve…
This dissertation theorizes a new understanding of “imitation,” the central objective and operation early modern writers prescribed for fiction, better known in the period as “poesy.” Reading poems, plays, and fictional prose from canonical authors, John Donne, William Shakespea…
This dissertation presents the first comprehensive history and philosophy of the “fossil behavior” of organisms, known as paleobehavior, with an emphasis on the study of fossilized traces such as footprints, nests, and burrows, known as ichnology. It consists of two parts: the f…
Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room (1969) is an icon of experimental music and sound art. The sizable literature addressing the aesthetic and philosophical implications of this piece rarely discusses the performance practice beyond what is indicated in the score itself. This …