Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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Systems, Experts, and Computers

The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After

Edited by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas Parke Hughes

ISBN: 9780262516044

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 21, 2011

This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.

From Embryology to Evo-Devo

A History of Developmental Evolution

Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein

ISBN: 9780262513340

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 21, 2009

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.

Communications Under the Seas

The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications

Edited by Bernard Finn and Daqing Yang

ISBN: 9780262012867

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 19, 2009

The technology of undersea communications, from stranded-wire telegraph cables in the 1850s to fiber-optic cables at the end of the twentieth century, and its social, political, and economic impact.

The Artificial and the Natural

An Evolving Polarity

Edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman

ISBN: 9780262026208

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 19, 2007

Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.

Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy

Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen

ISBN: 9780262524254

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 30, 2004

Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume singles...

Histories of the Electron

The Birth of Microphysics

Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Andrew Warwick

ISBN: 9780262524247

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 30, 2004

In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on "cathode rays" (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected...