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    Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history.Helge Kragh - forthcoming - Annals of Science.
    So-called antimatter in the form of elementary particles such as positive electrons (antielectrons alias positrons) and negative protons (antiprotons) has for long been investigated by physicists. However, atoms or molecules of this exotic kind are conspicuously absent from nature. Since antimatter is believed to be symmetric with ordinary matter, the flagrant asymmetry constitutes a problem that still worries physicists and cosmologists. As first suggested by Paul Dirac in 1933, in distant parts of the universe there might be entire stars and (...)
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    Soviet philosophic-cosmological thought.Maxim W. Mikulak - 1958 - Philosophy of Science 25 (1):35-50.
    Despite the rapid strides made in observational and theoretical astronomy, particularly in our century, there are two fundamental questions respecting the universe that defy solution. One pertains to the age of the universe, that is, did the universe have a beginning and therefore have a finite time-scale or has the universe existed without beginning. The other question deals with the dimensions of the universe, that is, is the universe infinite or not. For the time being no satisfactory proof or (...)
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    David Leverington. New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope. xii + 507 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, app., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $85 ; $29.95. [REVIEW]John Krige - 2002 - Isis 93 (2):345-345.
    New Cosmic Horizons was written by a project manager, originally trained as a physicist, who worked in the European space world and in business for about twenty‐five years and then returned to academia to complete his Ph.D. It is a well‐written, comprehensive compilation of major scientific results in space astronomy obtained during the latter half of the twentieth century. As the book jacket explains, “it explores the triumphs of space experiments and spacecraft designs and the amazing astronomical results that (...)
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  4. The Methodological Issues on Al-Jazari’s Scientific Heritage in Russian Studies.Fegani Beyler - 2023 - Bingöl University Journal of Social Sciences Institute 25 (25):160-169.
    Extensive scientific, philosophical and artistic activities were carried out in the Islamic World’s various science and civilization centers during the early Middle Ages. In these centers, noteworthy works of mathematics, astronomy, geography, medicine, pharmacology, optics, botany, chemistry and other fields of science, which would later determine improvement paths for these fields, were created. Abu al-Izz Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (12th-13th centuries), was a magnificent Muslim scientist known for his work named The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Kitab (...)
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    (1 other version)Key Word Index to Volume 50.Soviet Union - 1998 - Studies in East European Thought 50 (331):331-331.
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  6. Martin Rees.Expanding Horizons & In Astronomy - 2001 - In Aleksander Koj & Piotr Sztompka, Images of the world: science, humanities, art. Kraków: Jagiellonian University. pp. 55.
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  7. Searching for the tomb of Maya.Celts In Europe, Soviet Steppe, Hero Or Heretic, Roman London & Coin Market - 1991 - Minerva 2.
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  8. An Institutionalist Account.".Post-Soviet Eurasia - 1994 - Theory and Society 23 (1).
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    (1 other version)Key Word Index to Volume 54.Russian Eurasianism & Soviet Marxism - 2002 - Studies in East European Thought 54 (349):349-349.
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  10. Essays on Mathematical and Philosophical Logic Proceedings of the Fourth Scandinavian Logic Symposium and of the First Soviet-Finnish Logic Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 29-July 6, 1976.Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Esa Saarinen & Soviet-Finnish Logic Conference - 1979
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    Marxist Theory and Soviet Practice: "Ernest Gellner's Appraisal of Contemporary Soviet Ethnography".Daniel Little - 1992 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (2):238.
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    State ideology and the legitimation of authoritarianism: The case of post-soviet uzbekistan.Andrew F. March - unknown
    This article analyses the rhetorical legitimation strategy of post-Soviet Uzbekistan under Islam Karimov as an authoritarian state. I show that the most important mode of legitimation in this case is neither the consequentialist appeal to stability, order or welfare, nor a direct appeal to guardianship, i.e., special knowledge. Rather, Karimov and his court intellectuals seek to advance a conception of 'ideology' as the comprehensive pre-political consensus of the political community. Their concept of 'ideology' is used to advance a political (...)
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  13. R. V. Birjukov, "Two Soviet Studies on Frege".T. M. Simpson - 1967 - Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 1 (1):117.
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  14. Stephen J. Collier, Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics.Claudia Aradau - 2012 - Radical Philosophy 173:42.
     
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    Fifty years of Soviet Law.Theodor Schweisfurth - 1970 - Philosophy and History 3 (2):222-224.
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    A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler. J. L. E. Dryer New York: Dover Publications, 1953. 438 pp. $1.95.J. J. Nassau - 1954 - Philosophy of Science 21 (1):75-75.
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    The Meanings of Life and Value Priorities of the Post-Soviet Society in the Republic of Belarus.Alexander N. Danilov - 2020 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (10):25-37.
    The article discusses the meanings of life and value priorities of the post- Soviet society. The author argues that, at present, there are symptoms of a global ideological crisis in the world, that the West does not have its own vision of where and how to move on and has no understanding of the future. Unfortunately, most of the post-Soviet countries do not have such vision as well. In these conditions, there are mistrust, confusion, paradoxical manifestation of human (...)
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    Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union.Barnaby Haran - 2016 - Manchester: Manchester University Press.
    Cover -- Watching the red dawn -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the red Atlantic -- 1. Constructivism in the USA: machine art and architecture at The Little Review exhibitions -- 2. The mass and the machine: The New Playwrights Theatre and American radical Constructivism -- 3. Kino in America: Soviet montage and the American cinematic avant-garde -- 4. Camera eyes: the worker photography movement and the New Vision in America -- Epilogue: red train journeys (...)
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    S. L. Rubinštejn and the philosophical foundations of Soviet psychology.T. R. Payne - 1968 - Dordrecht,: D. Reidel.
    This work is intended as an introduction to the study of Soviet psy chology. In it we have tried to present the main lines of Soviet psycho logical theory, in particular, the philosophical principles on which that theory is founded. There are surprisingly few books in English on Soviet psychology, or, indeed, in any Western European language. The works that exist usually take the form of symposia or are collections of articles translated from Soviet periodicals. The (...)
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    The “Cosmographic Mystery” : Johannes Kepler’s Conversion of Astronomy.Torrance Kirby - 2019 - Laval Théologique et Philosophique 75 (1):59-74.
    In 1616, the Holy Congregation for the Index prohibited the printing and reading of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres on the grounds that heliocentrism contradicted the Holy Scriptures. According to Johannes Kepler, “To study the heavens is to know God as creator.” Moreover, “Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above else, of the (...)
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    The Chinese Buddhist Approach to Science: the Case of Astronomy and Calendars.Jeffrey Kotyk - 2020 - Journal of Dharma Studies 3 (2):273-289.
    This study reviews the Chinese Buddhist approach to astronomy and calendars during the first millennium CE. I demonstrate that although Indian astronomical and calendrical concepts were often translated into Chinese Buddhist literature, few of these conventions were ever actually implemented in China. I also demonstrate that the Chinese sangha relied upon secular and/or Indian astronomical materials in translation. I highlight the eighth-century monk Yixing as a unique example of a Chinese Buddhist monk who also acted as a court astronomer, (...)
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    On the Process of Liberation of the Baltic Countries from the Soviet Domination in Years 1985-1991: Attempt at a Model.Krzysztof Brzechczyn - 2008 - In Marek Rutkowski, Relacje nowych krajów Unii Europejskiej z Federacją Rosyjską (w aspekcie politycznym, ekonomicznym, kulturowym i społecznym). Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania w Białymstoku.
    The aim of this paper is to analyze the beginnings and growth of civil movements in the Baltic republics in years 1985-1991, which led to their state independence. Proces of liberation of Baltic societies will be analyzed according to the following criteria: size and range of the civil movement and forms of its institutionalization (i), political concession made by republican authorities (ii) and level of control over the republican structure of power exercised by the civil movements (iii). Finally, I will (...)
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    (1 other version)The Demilitarization of the Soviet Economy.A. I. Izyumov - 1989 - Télos 1989 (80):149-152.
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    Contextualizing critical junctures: what post-Soviet Russia tells us about ideas and institutions.Joachim Zweynert - 2018 - Theory and Society 47 (3):409-435.
    The present article asks what lessons the empirical case of institutional change in post-Soviet Russia yields for the recent research on ideas and institutions. Its main point is that in post-Soviet Russia a clash between imported foreground ideas and deep domestic background ideas led to an ideational division among the elite of the country that became a main obstacle to the provision of coherent economic reforms. This story stands in some contrast to much of the newer literature on (...)
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    Lysenko Unemployed: Soviet Genetics after the Aftermath.Michael D. Gordin - 2018 - Isis 109 (1):56-78.
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  26. Scythian Gold and the Gold- Standard : Soviet Attitudes To Gold and the International Monetary System.Marie Lavigne & Paul Rowland - 1978 - Diogenes 26 (101-102):26-49.
    The train has stopped in the night. It is the end of winter, 1920; it is very cold, about 25 degress below zero, some hundred kilometers west of Irkutsk. Along the train soldiers mount guard; ahead, a party of the detachment is clearing the track. Many of the soldiers have makeshift bandages around their wrists and feet: the Siberian frost has taken its toll. There is no question, however, of withdrawing the guard or stopping the work. This train is the (...)
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    (1 other version)The young Mao — a soviet portrait.Sigmund Krancberg - 1985 - Studies in East European Thought 29 (4):295-310.
  28. The Physical Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson.Bernard R. Goldstein - 1997 - Perspectives on Science 5 (1):1-30.
    Levi ben Gerson (1288–1344) was a medieval astronomer who responded in an unusual way to the Ptolemaic tradition. He significantly modified Ptolemy’s lunar and planetary theories, in part by appealing to physical reasoning. Moreover, he depended on his own observations, with instruments he invented, rather than on observations he found in literary sources. As a result of his close attention to the variation in apparent planetary sizes, a subject entirely absent from the Almagest, he discovered a new phenomenon of Mars (...)
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    Collective Memory as Sedimentations of Collective Experience: Phenomenological Analysis of Post-Soviet Europe.Minna-Kerttu M. Kekki - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 55 (4):289-307.
    In this essay, I argue that describing collective memory as a historical collective experience involving the sedimentation of experiences can help us understand the complexities in empirical cases. To demonstrate the explanatory power of this approach, I discuss actual cases of collective memory in post-Soviet European societies and communities, mainly in Estonia and among Ingrian Finns, using the concepts of collective experience and sedimentation. By combining these two concepts, I suggest that the same historical and contemporary political objects may (...)
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    Ab? Nasr Mans?r's Approach to Spherical Astronomy as Developed in His Treatise "The Table of Minutes".Claus Jensen - 1972 - Centaurus 16 (1):1-19.
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    The High Firmament: A Survey of Astronomy in English Literature. A. J. Meadows.William Jones - 1970 - Isis 61 (1):121-122.
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    The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Thomas S. Kuhn. [REVIEW]Philip P. Wiener - 1957 - Philosophy of Science 25 (4):297-299.
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    Mid-nineteenth-century American astronomy: Science in a developing nation.Norriss S. Hetherington - 1983 - Annals of Science 40 (1):61-80.
    Many mid-nineteenth-century American astronomers who added little or nothing to the advancement of knowledge nevertheless merit attention for their efforts to advance science in a developing nation. They wrote needed textbooks, developed scientific exchanges, and attempted, not always with lasting success, to establish scientific institutions. O. M. Mitchel's trials with the Cincinnati Observatory and his journal The Sidereal Messenger are more sympathetically understood in the context of science in a developing nation than as scientific research. The theme of science in (...)
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    Philosophy and science in Adam Smith’s ‘History of Astronomy’: A metaphysico-scientific view.Kwangsu Kim - 2017 - History of the Human Sciences 30 (3):107-130.
    This article casts light on the intimate relationship between metaphysics and science in Adam Smith’s thought. Understanding this relationship can help in resolving an enduring dispute or misreading concerning the status and role of natural theology and the ‘invisible hand’ doctrine. In Smith’s scientific realism, ontological issues are necessary prerequisites for scientific inquiry, and metaphysical ideas thus play an organizing and regulatory role. Smith also recognized the importance of scientifically informed metaphysics in science’s historical development. In this sense, for Smith, (...)
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    Essays of a Soviet Scientist: A Revealing Portrait of a Life in Science and Politics. Vitalii I. Gol'danskii.Alexei Kojevnikov - 1998 - Isis 89 (3):571-572.
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    The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics.E. F. Kaelin - 1981 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 15 (2):65.
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    The anthropological trend in Soviet philosophy and the scientific claims of Marxism.Zeev Katvan - 1983 - Man and World 16 (1):43-66.
  38. Rienk Vermij. The Calvinist Copernicans. The Reception Of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750.M. A. Granada - 2004 - Early Science and Medicine 9 (2):172-174.
     
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    Constructing Canals on Mars: Event Astronomy and the Transmission of International Telegraphic News.Joshua Nall - 2017 - Isis 108 (2):280-306.
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    A Source Book in Astronomy.H. R. Smart - 1929 - Philosophical Review 38 (4):415.
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    The dogmatic principles of Soviet philosophy (as of 1958).Józef M. Bochenski (ed.) - 1963 - Dordrecht, Holland,: D. Reidel Pub. Co..
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    Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VIII. The Water Clock in Babylonian Astronomy.O. Neugebauer - 1947 - Isis 37 (1/2):37-43.
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    Science Communication in the Soviet Union: Science as Vocation and Profession.Svetlana V. Shibarshina & Evgeny V. Maslanov - 2020 - Social Epistemology 34 (2):174-183.
    ABSTRACTThis study reconsiders scientists’ identity in terms of vocation vs. profession, proceeding from Max Weber’s differentiation between science as profession and science as an inner calling fo...
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    “Innovation Systems in Transition: Preconditions for Success”: The Electronics Sector in the Former Soviet Union.Heidi Smith - 2002 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 22 (6):496-512.
    During the Soviet period, the microelectronics industry in the former Soviet Union (FSU) owed its existence to the political and military objectives of the Communist Party. Consequently, investment in the industry was planned to meet the security needs of the Cold War international environment. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, there has been a reduction in emphasis away from the mass production of electronic devices suited to military and defense needs. The emergence of a huge rise (...)
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    Basic trends in soviet philosophy.John Somerville - 1946 - Philosophical Review 55 (3):250-263.
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    Something New Under the Sun in Anaximenes’ Astronomy?Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs - 2024 - Apeiron 57 (4):519-552.
    Anaximenes famously taught that the sun and other ‘stars’ do not move under the flat earth but around it and explained the night thereby. What he had in mind remains conjectural; the testifying fragments are ambiguous and apparently contradictory. The past 200-odd years have seen a plethora of dissenting interpretations. The bulk of these are here categorised into three groups: that the sun circles at a fixed height above sea level; that it follows the familiar inclined path by day and (...)
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    Economic Reform and the Soviet National Question.Joseph C. Brandt - 1990 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1990 (84):58-68.
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    Tat'yana Zaslavskaya and Soviet Sociology: An Introduction.Archie Brown - 1988 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 55.
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    Making stars physical: the astronomy of Sir John Herschel: by S. Case, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, viii + 319 pp., 13 plts, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-4530-7.Lee T. Macdonald - 2019 - Annals of Science 76 (2):227-230.
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    Galileo and Copernican Astronomy: A Scientific World View Defined.Clive Morphet - 1986 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 6 (5):429-502.
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