History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Milam, Erika Lorraine

FIGURE 25. Resistance to secular humanism gathered steam in the following decades. Here, Tim LaHaye illustrates the three platforms of humanism—amorality, evolution, and atheism— resting on the work of (from ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iain McCalman

The discovery of Barbara Thompson proved to be a watershed in Huxley’s intellectual growth. What he learnt from her would underpin much of his later writing as a Darwinian ethnographer. ...
( Category: Scientists March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-24 | Author:Wells, Linda [Wells, Linda]

In the meantime, reduce the cooking liquid to about half. Pour the reduced liquid, walnuts, onions and cranberries over the wings and serve. Per Serving Calories: 240.3; Fat: 4.8g; Saturated ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:G. Stephenson & C. W. Kilmister

3 . Equations of Motion The Lorentz transformation was found in Chapter 1 as a transformation leaving Newton’s first law invariant. This was a first step towards a satisfactory formulation ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tinniswood, Adrian; [Tinniswood, Adrian]

A meeting of the Society at Somerset House, c.1844. Members and visitors sit on benches facing the president; the mace rests on a table in the centre of the room. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Csiszar

I should hardly call those scientific works; they are compilations; they are hardly works of discovery, but rather entertaining miscellanies. I am not aware of a single new fact or ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carolyn M. King

The original poem, first published in 1922, has three more verses, the last recommending that nations aiming to attain global leadership should do the same. Many critics at the time ...
( Category: Ecology March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-10 | Author:Asma, Stephen T.

I wandered a bit more through Cuvier’s collection and eventually found Heidi staring at a shockingly bright orange-and-red orangutan specimen. The glass case was part of the “Respiratory” series, and ...
( Category: Natural History March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Leon M. Lederman;Christopher T. Hill [Leon M. Lederman;Christopher T. Hill]

FIGURE 29: Chemistry in action. These are the three smallest members of the simplest family of hydrocarbons, called "aliphatic (in-line) hydrocarbons," methane, ethane, and propane. (The sequence continues with additional ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 11,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Steven Weinberg [Weinberg, Steven]

1. Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (New York: Harper, 2008); Ian Stewart, Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry (New York: Basic Books, ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-11 | Author:Robert M. Hazen

SCHERZO—Useful Stuff Hot Fire! Fire is the key to refining coal and oil, themselves rich remains of buried life baked and compressed into complex mixtures of countless thousands of different ...
( Category: Mineralogy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Thomas Troward [Unbekannt]

If we realize that all visible things must have their origin in spirit, then the whole creation around us is the standing evidence that the starting-point of all things is ...
( Category: New Thought March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Robert Kaplan

The “math is discovered”/“math is invented” dichotomy used to be innocent, the latter view naturally accompanying times of great mathematical ferment, the former, times of consolidation—and both leaving their traces ...
( Category: Study & Teaching March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stella Cottam & Wayne Orchiston

On 24 December there was an article on the many successes of Princeton College that included Professor Young’s expedition to observe the solar eclipse of that year, “… one of ...
( Category: Astronomy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Powell

Observation of the Transit Practical experience had taught both Horrocks and Crabtree that cosmological truths were not to be found in the tabular computations, but only in the direct observation ...
( Category: Astronomy March 11,2020 )