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The Customs records refer not to Ogbourne, but Ogburn, while Jens received some drawings done by an artist named Osborne.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in 1922, and they found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the multiple pattern.
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The Customs records refer not to Ogbourne, but Ogburn, while Jens received some drawings done by an artist named Osborne.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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"If sociologists had the two-billion-dollar fund, which the physicists and engineers had to finance constructing the bomb," Ogburn wrote, "then in several years 'time, they could advise adequately on the social adjustments to this new source of power."
Book review of "Be Very Afraid," by Robert Wuthnow and "How Risky Is It, Really?," by David Ropeik Peter Carlson 2010
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For Ogburn and Thomas, the sheer number of multiples could mean only one thing: scientific discoveries must, in some sense, be inevitable.
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The Customs records refer not to Ogbourne, but Ogburn, while Jens received some drawings done by an artist named Osborne.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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“There were four independent discoveries of sunspots, all in 1611; namely, by Galileo in Italy, Scheiner in Germany, Fabricius in Holland and Harriott in England,” Ogburn and Thomas note, and they continue:
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Ogburn was a sociologist, and again very much a member of the American school.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Ogburn does not use it to construct any theory of technology or of its evolution, which he easily could have.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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Ogburn gave no theoretical reasoning to back his exponential claim, but we can supply some with a little simple logic.
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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