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“Nowhere but in a great town”: William Thomson's spiral of classroom credibility (1998)

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Authors & Contributors
Marsden, Ben
Boney, A. D.
Smith, Crosbie W.
Alexander, Wendy
Collins, Harry M.
Collins, Kenneth E.
Journals
History of Science
The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Publishers
Princeton University
Edinburgh University Press
Hilger
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom)
Concepts
Civil engineering
Science education and teaching
Technology
Medicine
Thermodynamics
Railroads
People
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Rankine, William John Macquorn
Bower, Frederick Orpen
Forbes, James David
Gordon, Lewis Dunbar Brodie
Hopkins, William
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Enlightenment
Places
British Isles
Scotland
Glasgow (Scotland)
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Institutions
University of Glasgow
University of Edinburgh
University of London
Royal Society of London
University of St. Andrews
University Marine Biological Station Millport
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