Sciences in the universities of Europe, nineteenth and twentieth centuries : academic landscapes / Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simões, Ana, editor.

Diogo, Maria Paula, editor.

Gavroglou, Kōstas, editor.

Series:

Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; v. 309.

Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, 0068-0346 ; v.309

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--19th century.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--20th century.

Universities and colleges--Europe--History.

Universities and colleges.

Science--Study and teaching (Higher).

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 393 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2015]

Contents:

Universities in the longue durée. "Those that have the most money must have least learning" : undergraduate education at the University of Oxford in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Robert Wells

From Ørsted to Bohr : the sciences and the Danish university system, 1800-1920 / Helge Kragh

Changing concepts of "the university" and Oxford's governance debates, 1850s-2000s / Andrew M. Boggs

Challenging the backlash : women science students in Italian universities (1870s-2000s) / Paola Govoni

The University of Strasbourg and world wars / Pierre Laszlo

Universities in central Europe : changing perspectives in the troubled twentieth century / Petr Svobodný

Universities in diverse political contexts. University models in changing political contexts / Gabor Palló

The autonomous Industrial University of Barcelona (1933-1934?) and the frustrated expectations of democracy in pre-war Spain / Antoni Roca-Rosell

Reform and repression : Manuel Lora-Tamayo and the Spanish university in the 1960s / Agustí Nieto-Galan

Universities in Russia : current reforms through the prism of Soviet heritage and international practice / Evgeny Vodichev

Universities and academic research. University societies and clubs in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and their role in the promotion of research / William C. Lubenow

The German model of laboratory science and the European periphery (1860-1914) / Geert Vanpaemel

Foundation of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Astronomical Observatory in the late nineteenth century : a step towards establishing a university / Luís Miguel Carolino

The political and cultural revolution of the CNRS : an attempt at the systematic organisation of research in opposition to "the academic spirit" / Robert Belot

Visions of science : research at the faculty of sciences of the University of Lisbon seen through its Journal / Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro and Ana Simões

Universities and discipline formation. The reforms of the Austrian university system 1848-1860 and their influence on the process of discipline formation / Christof Aichner

The physics laboratory of Leiden University / Dirk van Delft

A peripheral centre. Early quantum physics at Cambridge / Jaume Navarro

From the museum to the field : geology teaching in the faculty of sciences at the University of Lisbon / Teresa Salomé Mota

The emergence of biotypology in Brazilian medicine : the Italian model, textbooks, and discipline building, 1930-1940 / Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789401796354

9401796351

OCLC:

893898323

Publisher Number:

9789401796354