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the harvard undergraduate
history of science journal
Hua Tuo and the Origins of Surgery in Ancient China
When we look at the history of medicine and surgery, several figures stand out as exemplary. For much of recorded history, works from the...
Nicholas Sze
Mar 25, 2022
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Cardano’s Demons: Renaissance Demonology and Divination
A cursory glance at his autobiography reveals Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) to have been a man interested in many - sometimes unorthodox -...
John Schaefer
Apr 26, 2021
Nineteenth-Century Islamic First Causal Reasoning with Darwin
Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Islamic intellectuals began engaging with Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. The three prominent...
Nils Peterson
Apr 19, 2021
Praising Preformationism:
An Acknowledgement of 18th Century Preformationist Contributions to the Field of Developmental Biology In 1590, Hans and Zacharias...
Colman Freel
Apr 5, 2021
The Giant Leap for Womankind that Had to Wait
On March 29, 2019, the 215th International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk took place. It was supposed to mark a significant first in the...
K. Stawasz
Mar 29, 2021
Analysis of Maria Sibylla Merian’s "Preface to the Reader"
Who is Maria Sibylla Merian? Today, she is recognized as a skilled natural historian and an eminent early figure in the field of...
Haesung Jee
Mar 26, 2021
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