Lynn Thorndike (24 July 1882, in Lynn, Massachusetts, US – 28 December 1965, New York City) was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy...
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Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia...
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Babylonia and the Bible. Styx Publications, 2000. Limited preview online. Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science. The eagle-stone is defined...
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as one of scientific backwardness. Historians like George Sarton and Lynn Thorndike criticized how the Renaissance affected science, arguing that progress...
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of Boston John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer Joseph J. Thorndike (1913–2005), an American editor and writer Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an...
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to climb a mountain for pleasure since antiquity, was disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943.: 69–74 Mount Ventoux was climbed by Jean Buridan, on his way...
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clergyman Edward R Thorndike, and the brother of Lynn Thorndike, an American historian of medieval science and alchemy, and Edward Lee Thorndike, known for being...
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to climb a mountain for pleasure since antiquity, was disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg describes...
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1468-0289.1962.tb00059.x. JSTOR 2591885. Thorndike, Lynn; Johnson, F.R.; Kristeller, P. O.; Lockwood, D.P.; Thorndike, L. (1943). "Some Remarks on the Question...
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Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian. He was a professor of medieval history at Princeton from 1933 to 1937...
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by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, p. 26, Aryan theosophical press, 1888 Lynn Thorndike (1958). A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Columbia University...
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until the 19th and 20th centuries. According to medieval historian Lynn Thorndike, people in Medieval Europe probably bathed more than people did in the...
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the term renaissance to describe this period is contested, notably by Lynn Thorndike, due to the majority of changes brought about by this period being confined...
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James G. Randall (1952) Louis R. Gottschalk (1953) Merle Curti (1954) Lynn Thorndike (1955) Dexter Perkins (1956) William L. Langer (1957) Walter Prescott...
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George Sarton, Henry E. Sigerist, Charles Singer, Karl Sudhoff, and Lynn Thorndike. Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences (formerly Archeion)...
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Hellman of the Pratt Institute, and later CUNY's Queens College; and Lynn Thorndike of Columbia University, Boyer was instrumental in the 1953 founding...
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period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative...
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Thorndike, Lynn (1914), "Roger Bacon and Experimental Method in the Middle Ages", Philosophical Review, vol. 23, pp. 271–298. Thorndike, Lynn (1915)...
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identified as significant for its interests in natural philosophy by Lynn Thorndike, in a chapter "The Circle of Melanchthon" in his multi-volume History...
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James G. Randall (1952) Louis R. Gottschalk (1953) Merle Curti (1954) Lynn Thorndike (1955) Dexter Perkins (1956) William L. Langer (1957) Walter Prescott...
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commentary" by Julianus (the Theurgist.), Ruth Dorothy Majercik, ed., p.38 Lynn Thorndike (1958). A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Columbia University...
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instance in the monumental A History of Magic and Experimental Science by Lynn Thorndike (see online). Self-produced overview of the Leopoldina (accessed 29...
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Interpretation". Colloquia Copernicana III. Wrocław: Ossolineum: 59–76. Thorndike, Lynn (1949). The Sphere of Sacrobosco and its Commentators. Corpus of mediaeval...
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his dissertation, the intellectual historian of magic and medicine Lynn Thorndike pronounced him the “court physician” of Theodosius I, but the evidence...
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James G. Randall (1952) Louis R. Gottschalk (1953) Merle Curti (1954) Lynn Thorndike (1955) Dexter Perkins (1956) William L. Langer (1957) Walter Prescott...
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James G. Randall (1952) Louis R. Gottschalk (1953) Merle Curti (1954) Lynn Thorndike (1955) Dexter Perkins (1956) William L. Langer (1957) Walter Prescott...
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Achs) from 1965 to 1977. Since 1982, Foner has been married to historian Lynn Garafola. They have a daughter.[citation needed] Free Soil, Free Labor, Free...
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Thunder's Mouth Press. pp. 461–467. ISBN 1568582838. Thorndike, pp. 392–393. *Lynn Thorndike, in a chapter "The Circle of Melanchthon" in his multi-volume...
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Robert Thorndike, the founder of Rockport, Maine, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Augustus Thorndike, Edward Thorndike, Israel Thorndike, Lynn Thorndike, Robert...
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James G. Randall (1952) Louis R. Gottschalk (1953) Merle Curti (1954) Lynn Thorndike (1955) Dexter Perkins (1956) William L. Langer (1957) Walter Prescott...
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