Robert P Multhauf

Datos Biográficos

ID679898
NOMBRERobert P Multhauf
NOMBRESRobert P
APELLIDOMulthauf
FIRMAMULTHAUF R P
AFILIACIONESSmithsonian Institution
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS98
TOTAL DE CITAS19
TOTAL COMO AUTOR98
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1954
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
ÍNDICE H3

  • Communicating Chemistry

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    I would consider this book indispensable to institutional libraries, worth owning by persons interested in the histories of science and technology, and even rewarding to the more general reader. It seems important to say this at the outset, for neither the topic nor the title are very exciting. Indeed, the editors' brief preface includes an apology for the "boring, dogmatic, conservative" reputation of the subject

  • Eloge

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLEIsis1998

  • Gunpowder

    Robert P Multhauf, Robert MulthaufARTICLEIsis1998

  • Water Which Does Not Wet Hands

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLEIsis1997

  • In Memoriam

    John M Staudenmaier, Robert P Multhauf et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    In Memoriam MELVIN KRANZBERG (1917-1995) Spring of 1977 brought the NCAA basketball finals to Atlanta the same week that Mel welcomed me as his house guest. He celebrated my first evening with a party, wanting his circle of friends to meet the young man who was writing a dissertation on Technology and Cul­ ture and had come for research in thejournal’s files. Next morning, Mel set me up at a work table, gave me access to the Xerox machine, and le…

  • Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5

    Robert P Multhauf, Joseph Needham et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

  • Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 621 Pamela O. Long Dr. Long s publications include a study of the ideal of openness in 16th-century mining literature, an investigation of the concept of intellectual property in late medieval Europe, and (with Alex Roland) a study of the concept of military secrecy in ancient and early medieval Europe. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technol­ ogy. Pt. 6: Military Technology: M…

  • Operational Practice and the Emergence of Modern Chemical Concepts

    Open AccessRobert P MulthaufARTICLEScience in Context1996Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    The ArgumentBoth "early chemistry" and "modern concepts" are imprecise. The earliest references to the materials involved in metallurgy, painting, ceramics, and the like, reveal an awareness that one group of materials were called "salts" because of their similarities. I consider this a chemical "concept." Seeking another example I claim to have found it in the so-called "mineral acids." The evidence for the existence of this concept is cumulativ…

  • Joseph Needham (1900-1995)

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

    JOSEPH NEEDHAM (1900-1995) ROBERT P. MULTHAUF Joseph Needham was born in London on December 9, 1900, un­ der the name (according to the obituary in TheIndependently Mansel Davies) NoëlJoseph Terence Montgomery Needham. This fulsome name reminds us that he arrived in the well-ordered, and now leg­ endary pre-1914 world, an age of science and innocence, that took him to Caius College, Cambridge, where he “read” medicine and, from 1920 to 1942, “mad…

  • Science Has No National Borders

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1055 ahead of full-blown theoretical understandings and to developing designs with large margins for error. And some scientists recognized this, as when the authors note that George Kistiakowsky stopped sub­ mitting progress reports in May 1945 with the comment, “The activi­ ties of X-Division have lost all semblance of research and have become so largely production and inspection and testing that their brief s…

  • Science Has No National Borders

    Robert P Multhauf, Hideo Yoshikawa et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

  • The "Summa perfectionis" of Pseudo-Geber

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLESpeculum1994

  • Iron and Steel in Ancient China

    Robert P Multhauf, Donald B WagnerARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

  • Iron and Steel in Ancient China by Donald B. Wagner

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    Book Reviews Iron and Steel in Ancient China. By Donald B. Wagner. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. Pp. xiv+573; illustrations, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, f 320.00; $183.00. “Ancient China” in this book signifies the time span from the more or less prehistoric “Neolithic and Shang” to the third century b.c.—that is, the beginning of the Han dynasty. After a summary of the more familiar bronze age in China, the narrative text occupies…

  • Salt Production Techniques in Ancient China

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLEIsis1994

  • Das deutsche Salinenwesen 1550-1650

    Robert P Multhauf, Peter PiaseckiARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • Das deutsche Salinenwesen 1550-1650

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 515 centralized structure played in diffusing both technological and artistic innovations in medieval Europe. Third, Karlsson provides some new evidence of the importance of monasteries in diversifying the use of waterpower beyond grain milling. He argues convincingly that in certain regions of Sweden waterpower was used on a signifi­ cant scale in the medieval period by some monasteries for iron production (vo…

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. 2

    Robert P Multhauf, M M Postan et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • Der Freiberger Bergbau

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    674 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The royal interest in medicine is the final theme. Here, as in mining, the crown attempted to assert itsjurisdiction. Spanish military medicine is portrayed as far ahead of the efforts of Spain’s neighbors. The king promoted the search for medicinal plants in his empire, with public health outweighing economic gain as a motive. Medical care, like much of the technological enterprise in Philip’s reign, was b…

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. 2

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    TECHNOLOGY AND CUL TURE Book Reviews 1041 of the material related to Italy, for example, or to pivoting front axles. If one has to leaf through to find what one wants, however, the abundance of excellent illustrations makes it a pleasure to do so. Richard W. Bulliet Dr. Bulliet is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. 2: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. 2d ed. Edited …

  • Frederick E. Brasch and the History of Science . Henry Lowood

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLEIsis1989

  • Die Song-Dynastie (960 bis 1279)

    Robert P MulthaufARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    152 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ibly large ratio of arch opening to pier thickness never fails to amaze anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with the problems of thrust in bridge piers under construction. Some of the details suggest the inventive means used to achieve this ratio, and whet the appetite for more information than it has been possible to include in a general survey. The reader is left with a distinct need for more of th…

  • Die Song-Dynastie (960 bis 1279)

    Robert P Multhauf, Dieter KuhnARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • A Brief History of Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History

    Gerard L''E Turner, Gerard L'E Turner et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5

    Robert P Multhauf, Joseph NeedhamARTICLETechnology and Culture1988