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Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science.She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, [1] visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, [2] and an authority on early modern Europe's scientific and intellectual history. [1]
She has published many books on her work which include her insight on collaboration and the visualization spectrum. ... "The language of science". 175 Years of Discovery.
Between 1357 and 1371 a book of supposed travels compiled by John Mandeville acquired popularity. Despite the unreliable and often fantastical nature of its accounts, it was used as a reference [56] for the East, Egypt, and the Levant in general, asserting the old belief that Jerusalem was the centre of the world.
"The language of science". 175 Years of Discovery. Scientific American. 323 (3): 24–31. Stefaner, Moritz (September 2020). "How to process history : a data designer explains the art and science behind this visualization project". 175 Years of Discovery. Scientific American. 323 (3): 32–33.
The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery (2012), edited by Andrew Robinson, is a collection of 43 biographies of a selection of the greatest scientists of all time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An updated paperback edition of the book entitled The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery appeared in 2023.
Just three years after statehood, the nascent town around the fort numbered only a few hundred souls, but it was growing fast. In 1851, it would become a city, and in 1857, Iowa's capital.
[4] [8] On 24 September 1789 he announced his discovery to the Royal Prussian Academy of sciences in Berlin. [12] [13] He also discovered zirconium in 1789, [14] [8] separating it in the form of its "earth" zirconia, oxide ZrO 2. [15] Klaproth analyzed a brightly-colored form of the mineral called "hyacinth" from Ceylon.
Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.