Chapter ID: CBB001510157

Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication (2013)

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Denning, Kathryn (Author)


Pages: 301-312
Publication date: 2013
Language: English


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Authors & Contributors
Davidson, Keay
Badash, Lawrence
Dick, Steven J.
Dörries, Matthias
French, A. P.
Guthke, Karl S.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
British Journal for the History of Science
Cold War History
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Texas at Austin
University of Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
The MIT Press
University of Arizona Press
Wiley
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Extraterrestrial life; exobiology
Metaphors; analogies
Science and politics
Cold War
Popularization
People
Sagan, Carl
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Armstrong, Neil
Asimov, Isaac
Bode, Johann Elert
Einstein, Albert
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Rome (Italy)
Soviet Union
Institutions
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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