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Heavenly Intrigue by Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder
epub |eng | 2005-06-13 | Author:Joshua Gilder & Anne-Lee Gilder

CHAPTER 15 CONFRONTATION IN PRAGUE ON HEARING OF KEPLER’S UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE, BRAHE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED HIS ELDEST SON, TYGE, AND SOON-TO-BE SON-IN-LAW, Franz Tengnagel, in a carriage to the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 9,2017 )
On the Origin of Species by Darwin Charles; Beer Gillian; Beer Gillian
epub |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Darwin, Charles; Beer, Gillian; Beer, Gillian

CHAPTER IX ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day—On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number—On the vast ...
( Category: Political January 8,2017 )
What's a Dog For? by John Homans
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:John Homans

Ten Mixing the Lab The site of another of Stella’s beginnings, only a few centuries back, is a few hundred miles north of New York. On a flight to Europe, ...
( Category: Anthropology December 9,2016 )
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:Dava Sobel

PART THREE In the Depths Above I saw in the stars a chance to observe phenomena beyond terrestrial scope. Nothing seemed impossible in those early days; we were going to ...
( Category: State & Local December 8,2016 )
Polynesian Researches by William Ellis
epub |eng | | Author:William Ellis

"Mr. Goodrich and myself visited the volcano again, and, with a line, measured the upper edge of the crater, and found it to be seven miles and a half in ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions December 3,2016 )
Chernobyl 01:23:40
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Andrew Leatherbarrow

Chapter 7 RADIATION My alarm interrupts an unbroken eight-hour sleep. Feels more like two. Staggering out of bed, I gather my discarded clothes from the floor, rub the sleep from ...
( Category: General December 2,2016 )
The War on Science by Shawn Lawrence Otto
epub |eng | 2016-06-01 | Author:Shawn Lawrence Otto

One of the first things these men developed was the concept of “balance.” They argued that the science was “not settled” and that the details were still open to debate. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 22,2016 )
Time Travel by James Gleick
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:James Gleick

That’s Lucifer, per Lord Byron, on good authority. Luke 4:5: “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 30,2016 )
Primitive Culture Volume I by Tylor Edward Burnett;
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Tylor, Edward Burnett; [Edward Burnett Tylor]

Dooe saltee 2d. due soldi. Tray saltee 3d. tre soldi. Quarterer saltes 4d. quattro soldi. Chinker saltee 5d. cinque soldi. Say saltee 6d. sei soldi. Say oney saltee or setter ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2016 )
Neofinalism by Raymond Ruyer
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Raymond Ruyer [Ruyer, Raymond]

15 The Neomaterialist Theories In a certain superficial sense, we can say that contemporary science has realized the hopes of the old materialism concerning the problem of life. We can ...
( Category: Epistemology September 25,2016 )
What the F by Benjamin K. Bergen
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Benjamin K. Bergen

7 How Cock Lost Its Feathers A thousand years ago, people living in the British Isles spoke various manifestations of Old English, the language that would evolve over the subsequent ...
( Category: Linguistics September 24,2016 )
The Philosophy of Physics by Rickles Dean;
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Rickles, Dean;

Fig. 6.4 Worldlines of the two particles from the previous movies, which you can think of as a photographs with a ten-second exposure time. Naturally, this picture would be the ...
( Category: Gravity September 23,2016 )
The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Mario Livio

Figure 56 Figure 57 With the exception of the influential work of Pacioli and the mathematical/artistic interpretations of the painters Leonardo and Dürer, the sixteenth century brought about no other ...
( Category: Mathematical Analysis September 23,2016 )
Mind Over Matter: The Necessity of Metaphysics in a Material World by Wayne Rossiter & Brian Rossiter
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Wayne Rossiter & Brian Rossiter [Rossiter, Wayne]

Argument: “Christianity was dreamed up by a bunch of Iron Age peasants.” Examples: “The point is that our current understanding of nature has changed; we’ve learned things, it’s changed and ...
( Category: Apologetics September 17,2016 )
Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski
epub |eng | | Author:Witold Rybczynski

Paimio lounge chair (Alvar and Aino Aalto) Most of the Paimio furniture made its way into production. The two lounge chairs, the waiting room armchair, and the reading room chair ...
( Category: Furniture Design September 5,2016 )

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