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The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel by Clifford J. Cunningham
epub |eng | | Author:Clifford J. Cunningham

Fig. 4.39Close-up showing the aperture stops used by John Herschel on the 20-ft front-view during his observations in the 1830s in Southern Africa. On left is what appears to be ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2020 )
Epistemology of Decision by Mario Graziano
epub |eng | | Author:Mario Graziano

2.3 The Role of Social Cognition In general, social cognition is the process that allows people to think about and give meaning to themselves, others and social situations (Fiske and ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
Scientific Explanation by Erik Weber Jeroen Bouwel & Leen Vreese
epub |eng | | Author:Erik Weber, Jeroen Bouwel & Leen Vreese

S2 Animal a has inherited a B-gene from its mother LAll guinea pigs that inherit a B-gene from their father and from their mother are black _______________________________________________________________________ ExpAnimal a (which ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context by Timothy Ferris
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-15 | Author:Timothy Ferris [Ferris, Timothy]

But violence is a catalyst of wit, not its final product. A joke that arouses anger but then dispels it is very different from a cruel joke that leaves the ...
( Category: Cosmology March 22,2020 )
Science Slept Sixteen Centuries - And What It Achieved When It Woke: From Greek Science to Quantum Systems by Karson Allan
epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:Karson, Allan [Karson, Allan]

Radiation (to the outside of the atom) arises because of the electron’s jumps between these states (different sized orbits) Other important points to be made concerning that ‘memorandum’: The quantitative ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 22,2020 )
Buried Glory by Hargittai Istvan;
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Hargittai, Istvan;

Alexei Abrikosov and his third wife in 2004 in their home in Lemont, Illinois. Source: Photograph by and courtesy of the author. Abrikosov had always had heroes, but they changed ...
( Category: Scientists March 22,2020 )
Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony by Marcia Bartusiak
epub |eng | | Author:Marcia Bartusiak

Richard Isaacson, the NSF’s former program director of gravitational physics, in 1995. Photograph by Tatiana Divens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Divens Collection. With this decision, gravity-wave astronomy moved ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2020 )
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Fleck Ludwik
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Fleck, Ludwik [Fleck, Ludwik]

Then the procedure would be repeated for transparency and for all other properties. If one were to compare the data in the two tables with each other and to place ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 22,2020 )
Epidemics (Medical Library) by Hippocrates
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Hippocrates

Explanation of the characters. It is probably that the great discharge of urine brought about the resolution of the disease, and the cure of the patient on the fortieth day. ...
( Category: Medieval March 22,2020 )
Depression, Emotion and the Self by Matthew Ratcliffe & Achim Stephan
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Matthew Ratcliffe & Achim Stephan

2 I am not critical of the medical need to measure dysfunction, but I think it is important to appreciate the effect this has on the ill person. 3 ‘Turmoil’ ...
( Category: Depression March 22,2020 )
Physical (A)Causality by Karl Svozil
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Svozil

(III)Noncollapse Schrödinger-type quantum jellification without observation or measurement: in Schrödinger’s own words [457, pp. 19,20], “He [[the quantum physicist]] thinks that if the laws of nature took this [[von Neumann’s ...
( Category: Philosophy March 22,2020 )
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions [2008, 2011] by David Berlinski
epub |eng | 2008-03-31 | Author:David Berlinski [Berlinski, David]

In the years that followed—roughly from the late 1970s until the present—string theory expanded and grew great. Difficulties appeared and were surmounted, whereupon new difficulties appeared. Physicists were obligated to ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 22,2020 )
Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

about three weeks after the discovery of the blanket with the scalp, a park visitor reported finding an abandoned camp in the same area. Ranger Tom Cherry was dispatched to ...
( Category: Conservation March 22,2020 )
The Power of Stars by Bryan E. Penprase
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan E. Penprase

The sophisticated mathematics of the Arabic and European astronomers combined with their abilities in metalwork provided some of the world’s most beautiful sundials, which also came in portable varieties, used ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2020 )
The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-04 | Author:Matthew Cobb

* Look it up. It’s exactly the right word. † ‘Engram’, meaning the physical trace of a memory, was coined in German in 1904 by the zoologist Richard Semon, and ...
( Category: Biology March 22,2020 )

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