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Turner, Steven

Fellowship Advisor Inactive National Museum of American History staff

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Turner, Steven

Fellowship Advisor Inactive National Museum of American History staff

History of astronomy; history of physics; science education.

Background And Education

Education And Training

B.S., University of Nebraska

Publications

Selected Publications

Article
- Reconstructions: Recreating Science and Technology of the Past, edited by Klaus Staubermann. Science & Education. 22:733-736. 2013
- Changing Images of the Inclined Plane: A Case Study of a Revolution in American Science Education. Science & Education. 21:245-270. 2012
Book
- The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century. Proceedings of the Symposium in Honor of the Reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program. Ed. Vekerdy, Lilla. 2015
Chapter
- Turner, Steven C. 2015. "The Case of the “Forgotten” Telescope." In The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. Vekerdy, Lilla, editor. 71–79. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2015
- Presenting Science Experiences on the Web: non-formal learning in a museum context. Enabling Scientific Understanding through Historical Instruments and Experiments in Formal and Non-Formal Learning Environments. 251-266. 2013
- Changing Images of the Inclined Plane, 1880-1920: A Case Study of a Revolution in American Science Education. Learning by Doing: Experiments and Instruments in the History of Science Teaching. 207-242. 2011

Contact

Location

National Museum of American History Department