History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Bernd Brunner [Brunner, Bernd]

Earlier selenologists believed the lunar mountains to have sharp pointy edges. This illustration is taken from Recreations in Astronomy (1879) by H. D. Warren. Anyone who, armed with this understanding ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 4,2018 )
epub |fra | 2009-11-25 | Author:Nikola Tesla [Tesla, Nikola]

In Fig. 16 III., a similar motor M 3 with two energizing circuits A1 and B1 is illustrated. A primary P, connected with one of its ends to the line ...
( Category: Physics April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roger Joseph Boscovich [Boscovich, Roger Joseph]

let the vertical line BO represent gravity, draw from the point O, to meet the straight lines BH, BF, the straight lines OR, OI parallel to BF, BH ; also ...
( Category: Physics April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel J. Fairbanks

THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV), WHICH CAUSES AIDS, IS RAPIDLY EVOLVING. Let's now turn our attention to one of the most feared modern-day viruses—the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-09 | Author:Nigel M. de S. Cameron

Thinking clearly about the future So, how should we think about the future? We need to take it seriously, even if we are not sure which future it is likely ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-23 | Author:G. Harry Stine

FIG. 8-5: The NASA Skylab pioneered the sort of food that’s eaten in space today: freeze-dried, foil packed, or put up in pull-top cans. The food was heated in a ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Donald R. Prothero

FIGURE 8.3. The bottom-dwelling (benthic) foraminifera known as fusulinids were about the size and shape of a grain of rice and extraordinarily abundant in late Paleozoic limestones, where they may ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Allen M. Hornblum

Regardless of whether clinical trials during the Cold War were designed to learn more about radiation or the nature of disease, institutions holding impaired and orphaned children often became the ...
( Category: Experiments, Instruments & Measurement April 4,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Robert Peter Gale [Gale, Robert Peter]

IS IRRADIATED FOOD DANGEROUS? It is difficult to arrive at a worldwide figure for incidence of food poisoning, but the World Health Organization estimates that more than 2 billion cases ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaufman, Allison B.; Kaufman, James C.; & James C. Kaufman

The OPERA Experiment and Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos One of the most exciting physics stories of 2011 was the September announcement that an experiment in Italy had observed neutrinos traveling faster than ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Ingeborg Boyens

* * * — It is tempting to believe we can get the irritants of farming under control. An exhibit at the Epcot Center in Florida’s Disney World imagines a ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard B. Primack [Primack, Richard B.]

A Farm Diary Concurrent with our work in Concord and at Manomet, we tried to locate other useful data sets, especially the diaries of bird arrival dates kept by individuals. ...
( Category: Engineering April 4,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:P. G. Maxwell-Stuart [Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.]

7 The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath The early seventeenth century continued to see people’s constant attempt to produce gold by transmutation, and their ever more intricate experiments with a ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Gallentine

Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Burke sipped coffee, pushing through the week's tribulations. He approached things in much the same ...
( Category: Engineering April 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Hervé This;Jody Gladding

Sauces CREAMY, SATINY, FLAVORFUL Neither a Juice nor a Purée Before they sang of Trojan heroes or the adventures of Ulysses, the Greek poets invoked the Muses, who were supposed ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference April 3,2018 )