scholarly journals ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS: WHAT DO EXHIBITS VISUALIZE? (A CASE OF THE HALL OF AFRICAN PEOPLES IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY)

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Pisarev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals A IMPORTÂNCIA DO MICROSCÓPIO ÓTICO NA REVOLUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA - DAS PRÁTICAS EDUCACIONAIS À REPRESENTAÇÃO MUSEOLÓGICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Nuno Teles ◽  
Maria João Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century

ResumoNeste artigo é apresentada uma reflexão sobre os museus de ciência a partir da sua vertente educativa ligada às questões da representação museológica. Em discussão está a importância do microscópio como objeto de destaque museológico aliada ao seu contributo para o ensino das ciências. Numa primeira abordagem é feita uma contextualização histórica sobre a descoberta, desenvolvimento e importância deste instrumento, seguida de uma contextualização científica sobre a sua utilização como ferramenta de investigação e educação. Numa segunda abordagem serão apresentados os campos de aplicação deste equipamento como instrumento educativo ao longo do século XIX até ao século XXI. Como exemplos serão referidos três museus nacionais de ciência: Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto; Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra; e Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa. Palavras-chave: microscópio; educação; museologia; história da ciência. Abstract This article presents a reflection on the role played by science museums from an educational point of view in connection with issues pertaining to museological representation. In discussion is the importance of the microscope as an object of museological prominence allied to its contribution for science teaching. In a first approach, a historical contextualization on the discovery, development and importance of this instrument will be provided, followed by a scientific contextualization on its use as an educational and research tool. In a second approach the fields of application of the microscope as an educational instrument from the 19th century to the 21st century will be outlined. Three science museums in Portugal will be used as examples: the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto, the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon.Keywords: microscope; education; museology; history of science.

Ceratopsia increase: history and trends

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dodson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Taxonomic History ◽  
Peking University ◽  
History Of

The taxonomic history of the Ceratopsia began in 1876 with the description of Monoclonius crassus Cope followed in 1889 by Triceratops horridus Marsh. After a peak of discovery and description in the 1910s and 1920s resulting from the Canadian dinosaur rush in the province of Alberta and the Central Asiatic Expeditions to Mongolia of the American Museum of Natural History, the study of ceratopsians declined to a low level until the 1990s, when discoveries in China, Montana, Utah, Alberta, and elsewhere, abetted by increased biostratigraphic and phylogenetic precision, led to an unprecedented resurgence of activity. Even Richard C. Fox, along with colleagues from Peking University, joined in the activity, by naming Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis. To place the activity in historical perspective, half of all known ceratopsians have been described since 2003. Despite important finds of basal ceratopsians in China, Mongolia, and Korea, North America continues to dominate ceratopsian, especially ceratopsid, diversity.

scholarly journals History of Science and Science Museums

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 983-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudia Faria ◽  
Elsa Guilherme ◽  
Raquel Gaspar ◽  
Diana Boaventura
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
History Of

Translation studies in the history of science: the example of Vestiges

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLAAS RUPKE
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Species Transformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design In Nature ◽  
1848 Revolution ◽  
Divine Order

The three translations of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation invested the text with new meaning. None of the translations endorsed the book for the author's advocacy of species transformation. The first translation, into German (1846), put forward the text as evincing divine design in nature. The second, into Dutch (1849), also presented Vestiges as proof of divine order in nature and, more specifically, as aiding the stabilization of society under God and king in a process of recovery from the 1848 Revolution. By contrast, the third translation, into German (1851), interpreted the book as furthering the very revolutionary, anti-ecclesiastical and anti- monarchist ideals that the Dutch edition sought to counter.

scholarly journals Mancala in Surinamese Maroon Communities: The Expedition of Melville J. Herskovits

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Akane Okoshi ◽  
Alex de Voogt
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
American Museum ◽  
History Of

Abstract The American Museum of Natural History (amnh) has three mancala game boards in their collection that are connected with Suriname, formerly Dutch Guyana. One of these samples is exhibited in the amnh African Peoples Hall as part of a section on African Slavery and Diaspora. The games of Suriname were described by Melville J. Herskovits in an article dating to 1929, but the relation of these three boards with Herskovits has remained unclear. With the help of the Herskovits archives, the archival records of amnh and recent research on Surinamese Maroon communities, the history of these three boards is shown to be intimately linked with Herskovits’ broader intellectual project.

‘Just put it online’: The Taylor White Project as a digitization case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Zinger
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Interactive Visualizations ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Materials

Creating access to digital surrogates of primary source materials has spurred the growth of history of science as a field. Enabling and supporting virtual access requires an understanding of the behind-the-scenes requirements of a digitization project. Using McGill's Taylor White Project as a case study, this article reveals how such a project is managed, to result in a unique digital collection that supports research in both the humanities and the sciences. The workflows described transformed a collection of 938 eighteenth-century natural history drawings from a relatively inaccessible archive to a searchable and browsable digital collection, complete with contextualizing interactive visualizations. Understanding this process reveals some of the ways in which digitized data can create new avenues for questioning and examining information.

Resources for the History of Science in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History)

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. R. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Blue Whale ◽  
The Public ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
History Of

Alfred Waterhouse's ornate Romanesque building at South Kensington, London, has contained the natural history collections of the British Museum since 1881. First opened to the public on Easter Monday, 18 April, in that year, the British Museum (Natural History) (BM(NH)) has become well-known for the excellence of its exhibition galleries, particularly for its dinosaurs, blue whale, and, more recently, for its revolutionary Hall of Human Biology.

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