Charles A Ziegler
Biographic Data
| ID | 703946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles A Ziegler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziegler |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEGLER C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On affirmations of the realities of religion and atheism
How Big is Kiriwina
Interpretations of political and economic organization in ethnographic accounts often depend on assumptions about or estimates of the relation between a population and the area it inhabits and/or exploits. While some attention has been given to factors contributing to the unreliability of demographic data in anthropology, less has been directed to the possible unreliability of information on land area. The purpose of this paper is to present an i…
Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency
This paper suggests that biological factors ought to be considered in attempting to explain distributions of theism and atheism across populations. In advancing our argument, we consider two recent efforts to explain atheism. The first, entered by William S. Bainbridge, is in the tradition of sociological theorizing. The second, proffered by Justin L. Barrett, is an example of theorizing within the framework of the recently developed cognitive sc…
UFO Crash at Roswell
UFO Crash at Roswell
Spying without Spies
Weapons Development in Context
In 1918, the United States Army carried out a program to develop unmanned, wind-driven balloons as bomb-carrying attack vehicles. The objective was to blanket all of Germany with incendiary bombs and canisters of lethal gas by launching bombers in enormous numbers from bases in France where prevailing winds would carry them eastward. The program succeeded, and preparations for the balloon bomber offensive were under way when the armistice interve…
The Moby Dick Project
Technology and culture Book Reviews 833 other words, the book could have benefited from going substantially farther. Barton C. Hacker Dr. Hacker is historian at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons over Russia. By Curtis Peebles. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 250; illustrations, notes. $40.00. Rapid demobilization in the wake of World War II left the United St…
The Moby Dick Project
Edward Teller
Rand's Role in the Evolution of Balloon and Satellite Observation Systems and Related U.S. Space Technology
This report, prepared as part of RAND-sponsored research, was originally intended to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Project RAND (now Project AIR FORCE), a long-term research effort that began in April 1946 with a study of the utility and feasibility of space satellites. RAND research on space technology continued, for the next two decades, to emphasize the primacy of photoreconnaissance and the communication to earth of remotely sensed …
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery: The Case of Cosmic Rays CHARLES A. ZIEGLER In 1909 ballooning, a technology that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1780s, began to play the role of midwife in the birth of a new branch of science, cosmic-ray physics. This role has not been fully explicated in histories of either scientific ballooning or early cosmic-ray research.1 In describing the nexus between ballooning and cosmic ra…
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery
In 1909 ballooning, a technology that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1780s, began to play the role of midwife in the birth of a new branch of science, cosmic-ray physics. This role has not been fully explicated in histories of either scientific ballooning or early cosmic-ray research.' In describing the nexus between ballooning and cosmic rays, histories of ballooning focus narrowly on the way certain advances in balloon technology we…
Waiting for Joe-1
Events that led to the successful identification by the US of the 1949 test of a Russian atomic bomb are analyzed in terms of three decisions that involved, respectively, the management, development and deployment of the monitoring system that detected the Russian test. Analysis of these decisions focuses on the way public and `insider' beliefs about atomic bombs influenced the decision-making process, and on how technical and organizational fact…
Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency
This paper suggests that biological factors ought to be considered in attempting to explain distributions of theism and atheism across populations. In advancing our argument, we consider two recent efforts to explain atheism. The first, entered by William S. Bainbridge, is in the tradition of sociological theorizing. The second, proffered by Justin L. Barrett, is an example of theorizing within the framework of the recently developed cognitive sc…
UFO Crash at Roswell
Weapons Development in Context
In 1918, the United States Army carried out a program to develop unmanned, wind-driven balloons as bomb-carrying attack vehicles. The objective was to blanket all of Germany with incendiary bombs and canisters of lethal gas by launching bombers in enormous numbers from bases in France where prevailing winds would carry them eastward. The program succeeded, and preparations for the balloon bomber offensive were under way when the armistice interve…
Waiting for Joe-1
Events that led to the successful identification by the US of the 1949 test of a Russian atomic bomb are analyzed in terms of three decisions that involved, respectively, the management, development and deployment of the monitoring system that detected the Russian test. Analysis of these decisions focuses on the way public and `insider' beliefs about atomic bombs influenced the decision-making process, and on how technical and organizational fact…
Waiting for Joe-1
Events that led to the successful identification by the US of the 1949 test of a Russian atomic bomb are analyzed in terms of three decisions that involved, respectively, the management, development and deployment of the monitoring system that detected the Russian test. Analysis of these decisions focuses on the way public and `insider' beliefs about atomic bombs influenced the decision-making process, and on how technical and organizational fact…
Rand's Role in the Evolution of Balloon and Satellite Observation Systems and Related U.S. Space Technology
This report, prepared as part of RAND-sponsored research, was originally intended to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Project RAND (now Project AIR FORCE), a long-term research effort that began in April 1946 with a study of the utility and feasibility of space satellites. RAND research on space technology continued, for the next two decades, to emphasize the primacy of photoreconnaissance and the communication to earth of remotely sensed …
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery: The Case of Cosmic Rays CHARLES A. ZIEGLER In 1909 ballooning, a technology that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1780s, began to play the role of midwife in the birth of a new branch of science, cosmic-ray physics. This role has not been fully explicated in histories of either scientific ballooning or early cosmic-ray research.1 In describing the nexus between ballooning and cosmic ra…
Technology and the Process of Scientific Discovery
In 1909 ballooning, a technology that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1780s, began to play the role of midwife in the birth of a new branch of science, cosmic-ray physics. This role has not been fully explicated in histories of either scientific ballooning or early cosmic-ray research.' In describing the nexus between ballooning and cosmic rays, histories of ballooning focus narrowly on the way certain advances in balloon technology we…
Edward Teller
The Moby Dick Project
Technology and culture Book Reviews 833 other words, the book could have benefited from going substantially farther. Barton C. Hacker Dr. Hacker is historian at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons over Russia. By Curtis Peebles. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 250; illustrations, notes. $40.00. Rapid demobilization in the wake of World War II left the United St…
The Moby Dick Project
Weapons Development in Context
In 1918, the United States Army carried out a program to develop unmanned, wind-driven balloons as bomb-carrying attack vehicles. The objective was to blanket all of Germany with incendiary bombs and canisters of lethal gas by launching bombers in enormous numbers from bases in France where prevailing winds would carry them eastward. The program succeeded, and preparations for the balloon bomber offensive were under way when the armistice interve…
Spying without Spies
UFO Crash at Roswell
UFO Crash at Roswell
Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency
This paper suggests that biological factors ought to be considered in attempting to explain distributions of theism and atheism across populations. In advancing our argument, we consider two recent efforts to explain atheism. The first, entered by William S. Bainbridge, is in the tradition of sociological theorizing. The second, proffered by Justin L. Barrett, is an example of theorizing within the framework of the recently developed cognitive sc…
How Big is Kiriwina
Interpretations of political and economic organization in ethnographic accounts often depend on assumptions about or estimates of the relation between a population and the area it inhabits and/or exploits. While some attention has been given to factors contributing to the unreliability of demographic data in anthropology, less has been directed to the possible unreliability of information on land area. The purpose of this paper is to present an i…
On affirmations of the realities of religion and atheism
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