Article ID: CBB000202492

Space Scale: Models in the History of Science and Students' Mental Models (2002)

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Description “We suggest that laboratory work based on historical experiments using elementary geometry---as, for example, the determination of the radius of the Earth by Eratosthenes---promotes a scientific understanding of astronomical measurements.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Lanzillotti, Rachele
Maria de Lourdes Bacha
Zito, Fredrick Anthony
Wittje, Roland
Wang, Hsingchi A.
Staubermann, Klaus B.
Journals
Science and Education
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Istoriko-Biologicheskie Issledovaniia
History of Psychology
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Western Michigan University
NMS Enterprises
Naval Institute Press
Kluwer
New York University
Concepts
Teaching history of science
Science education and teaching
Experiments and experimentation
Geodesy
Astronomy
Historical reconstruction
People
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Swammerdam, Jan
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Maxwell, James Clerk
Marconi, Guglielmo
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Medieval
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Norway
Italy
Greece
France
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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