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The History of Science Society is the world's largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context. Over 3,000 individual and institutional members across the world support the Society's mission to foster interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations.
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This online exhibit from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, was prepared to accompany an exhibition on astrolabes held in 2005-6. It includes an introduction to the exhibition, and a catalogue of the astrolabes in the museum which can be browsed or searched.
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"Martin Klein helped pioneer the history of relativity and quantum physics, bringing to these subjects his deep knowledge of physics, discerning judgment, and mastery of the tools of scholarship. The Pais Award is a wonderful and fitting acknowledgement of his outstanding historical achievements," said Daniel J. Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in the History of Science & Medicine at Yale.
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There are now many universities where the history of science is taught, both on an undergraduate and graduate level. Several schools have departments devoted to the history of science. Although in these lectures I had in mind mostly the sciences, it might be of interest to state that more than twenty-five medical schools have chairs and even divisions for the history of medicine, and more than fifty schools offer courses on this subject.
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This online exhibit from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, was prepared to accompany an exhibition on the history of photography held in 1997. It includes an illustrated catalogue of the exhibits, an overview of the exhibition, a brief history of the main photographic processes, and notes on the work of two early photographers (Sarah Angelina Ackland, T. E. Lawrence).
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Spectators in the town square of Regensburg, on 8 May 1654, are treated to perhaps the most dramatic demonstration in the history of science. Otto von Guericke, burgomaster of Magdeburg and part-time experimenter in physics, is about to demonstrate the reality of a vacuum.
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