Activity – Chaokang Tai – Humanities Commons

Chaokang Tai's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
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Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Science in the group Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Introduction to the book Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Chaokang Tai deposited The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon: Perception and Photography in the Drawings of Anton Pannekoek in the group Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

One of Anton Pannekoek’s main scientific projects was to provide a representation of the appearance of the Milky Way – an object he believed to be an optical illusion. This paper elucidates how Pannekoek thought the Milky Way appearance was formed by a combination of human psychology and physiology, and why he attributed such significance to it.…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Introduction to the book Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Chaokang Tai deposited The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon: Perception and Photography in the Drawings of Anton Pannekoek on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

One of Anton Pannekoek’s main scientific projects was to provide a representation of the appearance of the Milky Way – an object he believed to be an optical illusion. This paper elucidates how Pannekoek thought the Milky Way appearance was formed by a combination of human psychology and physiology, and why he attributed such significance to it.…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Science in the group Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Science in the group History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960), prominent astronomer and world-renowned socialist theorist, stood at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science and the arts of the early twentieth century. His astronomy was uniquely visual and highly innovative, while his politics were radical. Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society collects…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Marxist and Astronomer on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago

Description of my archival research trip to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives of the American Institute of Physics in College Park, MD, and the Harvard University Archives in Cambridge, MA. This research trip was partially funded by the AIP’s Grant-in-Aid.
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek’s Epistemic Virtues in Astronomy and Socialism: Personae and the Practice of Science in the group Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was both an innovative astronomer and an influential Marxist. In this article we will investigate both his Milky Way research and Marxist philosophy, with special focus on his ideal scholarly persona and the epistemic virtues he advocated in his research. This focus allows us to place Pannekoek in the larger development…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Scientific and Socialist Virtues of Anton Pannekoek in the group Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873–60) was both an influential Marxist and an innovative astronomer. This paper will analyze the various innovative methods that he developed to represent the visual aspect of the Milky Way and the statistical distribution of stars in the galaxy through a framework of epistemic virtues. Doing so will not only emphasize the u…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Left Radicalism and the Milky Way: Connecting the Scientific and Socialist Virtues of Anton Pannekoek on Humanities Commons 8 years ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873–60) was both an influential Marxist and an innovative astronomer. This paper will analyze the various innovative methods that he developed to represent the visual aspect of the Milky Way and the statistical distribution of stars in the galaxy through a framework of epistemic virtues. Doing so will not only emphasize the u…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai deposited Anton Pannekoek’s Epistemic Virtues in Astronomy and Socialism: Personae and the Practice of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years ago

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was both an innovative astronomer and an influential Marxist. In this article we will investigate both his Milky Way research and Marxist philosophy, with special focus on his ideal scholarly persona and the epistemic virtues he advocated in his research. This focus allows us to place Pannekoek in the larger development…[Read more]
Chaokang Tai's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago

Chaokang Tai

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