Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance Vol II: The branches of learning
1982
by Machlup and Machlup
Fritz MachlupKnowledge EconomicsHuman CapitalEducationEpistemologyAristotleThomas AquinasThomas HobbesAuguste ComteGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelHerbert SpencerImmanuel KantJeremy BenthamPositivismPlatoNapoleon BonaparteKlemens von MetternichAnthropologyWoodrow Wilson
Table of Contents · 38 segments
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Title Page and Publication Dataessay
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Contents and Analytical Table of Contentsessay
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Prefaceessay
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Chapter 1: Introductionchapter
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Part One Overview: The Branches of Learningessay
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Chapter 2: The Taxonomy of the Branches of Learningchapter
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Chapter 3: Classical and Medieval Synopsis of Doctrineschapter
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Chapter 4 Introduction: The Tree of Knowledgechapter
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Bacon’s Divisions of the Sciences: History, Poësy, Philosophy, Natural and Moral Knowledgetheoretical
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Bacon’s Main Outline, Hobbes’s Consequences, and Descartes’ Treetheoretical
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Chapter 5 Introduction: Encyclopaedias and Alsted’s Classificationchapter
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Leibniz, Chambers, and Diderot-d’Alembert on the Circle of Learningtheoretical
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Chapter 6: The Mapping of the Scienceschapter
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Chapter 7: Unified Science and the Propaediachapter
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Part Two Front Matter: The Departments of Eruditionessay
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Chapter 8: Academies of Sciences—Introduction and Distinctionschapter
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European Academies: Chronology and Italychapter
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France: The Institut de France and Its Academieschapter
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England: The Royal Society and the British Academychapter
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Germany: Leibniz, Regional Academies, and East-West Reorganizationchapter
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Russia and the Soviet Union: Academy as Research Systemchapter
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Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austriachapter
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United States Academies and the American Philosophical Societychapter
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American Academy of Arts and Scienceschapter
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National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Councilchapter
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American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Councilchapter
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AAAS and the American Association for the Advancement of the Humanitieschapter
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Chapter 9: Libraries and the Practical Problem of Classificationchapter
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The Dewey Decimal Systemchapter
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Alternative Library Classification Systemschapter
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The Library of Congress Classification Systemchapter
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Chapter 10: Universities, Faculties, and Departments — Early European Universitieschapter
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Early American Colleges: Harvard, Classical Curricula, and Practical Studieschapter
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Developments in Europe: Oxbridge and German Universitieschapter
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American Universities Since 1876: Research Universities, Graduate Education, and Applied Schoolschapter
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Departments, Interdisciplinary Programs, HEGIS, and Educational Subject Classificationchapter
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Indexbibliography
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Library of Congress Cataloging Data, Author Note, and Library Stampbibliography