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‘The border problems of science and philosophy’: Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider and post-World War 2 science in Australian academia and society
Published 2022Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1891–1990), a refugee immigrant to Australia in 1938, was a student of Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Einstein, Planck, and von Laue. She combined a background in physics, especially relativity ...Open AccessArticle -
Remaining Human in COVID-19: Dialogues on Psychogeography
Published 2021Post-COVID-19 environments have challenged our embodied identities with these challenges coming from a variety of domains, that is, microbiological, semiotic, and digital. We are embedded in a new complex set of relations, ...Article -
Llara subsoil constraint prediction dataset
Published 2021-04-14This dataset holds covariate data that was used for predicting subsoil constraints across the University of Sydney farm "Llara", Narrabri, NSW Australia. It includes terrain attributes, gamma radiometrics from an aerial ...Open AccessDataset -
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science
Published 2010-01-01It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated ...Open AccessBook -
The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view.
Published 2011-01-01Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute existence’. We demonstrate that ...Open AccessArticle