History & Philosophy
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1985-04-25 | Author:Thomas L. Hankins [Hankins, Thomas L.]

Fig. 5.1. Physiology as mechanical philosophy. G. A. Borelli, in his De motu animalium [On the motion of animals] (1680) studied the human body as a machine. The mechanical philosophy ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Rupert Spira

* From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. CHAPTER 11 THE WHITE RADIANCE OF ETERNITY In Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-27 | Author:Dean H. Hamer

Seven How the Brain Sees God The faith state may hold a very minimum of intellectual content. —William James One afternoon while we were weeding the vegetable garden at the ...
( Category: Religious Studies November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Susan B. Martinez

Moment of Birth Astrology portrays the newborn as some sort of sensitive photographic plate whose destiny is decided by the stellar influences that converge at the moment of his first ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 4,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Leon Lederman & Dick Teresi

Lawrence worked out the theory of the cyclotron in 1929 and 1930. Later he designed, on paper, a machine in which the protons made a hundred turns with a generation ...
( Category: Physics October 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Alexander Unzicker

ON THE CLIFF ABOVE THE OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM THEORY In the spring of 1925, Werner Heisenberg was tormented by a severe attack of hay fever. He fled to ...
( Category: Creativity October 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Moore, Wendy [Moore, Wendy]

11 The Chaplain’s Neck ‘Dr Dodd seemed to be willing to die, and full of hopes of happiness.’ James Boswell1 London, June 1777 ON SUNDAY, 22 June 1777, the Reverend ...
( Category: Historical October 26,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2001-01-17 | Author:Richard P. Feynman & Ralph Leighton [Feynman, Richard P. & Leighton, Ralph]

( Category: Physics October 25,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:John Gribbin

The next 10 billion years A little more than half an hour after t = 0 (at t = 34 minutes and 40 seconds, to be precise), almost all of ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

September 13th.—We left the baths of Cauquenes, and, rejoining the main road, slept at the Rio Claro. From this place we rode to the town of San Fernando. Before arriving ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould [Shermer, Michael & Gould, Stephen Jay]

PART 4 We believe we can construct a past that is veritable, that is accurate in terms of actual past events, since the past has left its mark in the ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 24,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Thomas Metzinger

At the same time, the dream self creates intense emotional experiences—some aspects of the self are clearly stronger in the dream tunnel than in the tunnel of waking consciousness. Anyone ...
( Category: Philosophy October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:Henry Schlesinger

EDISON WAS NOT THE FIRST to light a city, though he was the best marketer of city lighting. Two years before he revved up the dynamos for this first power ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

Belief in Belief 237 Or did he? When Philby first showed up in Moscow, he was (apparently) suspected by the KGB of being a British plant—a triple agent, if you ...
( Category: Religious Studies October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1993-08-14 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: Evolution October 24,2017 )