by Kelsey Kennedy Oregon State’s Valley Library is home to many resources, including the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). There, students (and the curious-at-large) can find archives covering the university’s history, as well as a number of rare books, many of which are notable in the history of science. The two volumes [...]
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Exploring SCARC: Lavoisier’s Traité élémentaire de chimie
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Mary Jo Nye and the Social Construction of Science
Monday, January 16th, 2012Congratulations to Mary Jo Nye (Emerita Horning Professor in the Humanities) on the publication of her long-awaited study of Michael Polanyi, the celebrated scientist, philosopher, and critic of positivism. The title is Michael Polanyi and his Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science (Chicago, 2011). The book has already gained widespread acclaim, including a [...]
Is it Wrong to Analyze Culture with Google Books?
Monday, August 8th, 2011Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.” She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an [...]
