History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Strogatz

The dotted line at x marks the current position of this imaginary roller as it rolls to the right. Meanwhile, to ensure that the region is painted neatly, the roller ...
( Category: Calculus February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-14 | Author:Steven Weinberg [Weinberg, Steven]

The size of the sea is so vast that the difference between the size of a convoy and the size of a single ship shrinks in comparison almost to insignificance. ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

What is social Darwinism? Social Darwinism is a social movement—one of a number of perversions of the Darwin–Wallace theory. These movements attempt to use evolutionary mechanisms as excuses for social ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Michael D. Gordin

The illness affecting Austrian higher education was again diagnosed as von Stürgkh, whose hostility to the Jews—in contrast to his Prussian equivalent Friedrich Althoff’s efforts to expand official quotas in ...
( Category: Scientists February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-29 | Author:Zhang, Yanhua.

As discussed in chapter 3, a persistent tendency in Chinese thinking is to see motion and change (dong ) as generative of “the myriad things” of the world. In this ...
( Category: Chinese Medicine February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Bruno, Giordano;Gatti, Hilary;

[Fig. 5 © The British Library Board, C.37.c.14.(2.) p. 75.] SMITHUS. I would like to know if those who are near very high mountains would suffer from this impediment. THEOPHILUS. ...
( Category: Renaissance February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Matthew Stanley

How star images in the Hyades are deflected from their positions by the sun’s gravity. Detail from the Illustrated London News, November 22, 1919. COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR The path ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Marder, Michael.

The problems of ancient psychology I have raised here are still our problems, not because nothing has changed in human subject-formation over the period that has elapsed between Plato or ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cyril Aydon

11 FORCED INTO THE OPEN Three weeks after Annie’s death, Emma gave birth to a son, who was christened Horace. She had hoped that caring for a new-born child might ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Al Cimino

In 2011, a memorial to the Polish codebreakers was unveiled at Bletchley Park. Bletchley Park, headquarters of Station X, the most secret site in Britain during World War II. CHAPTER ...
( Category: Encryption February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Josh Reeves

Conclusion Like the Lakatosian project of Nancey Murphy, McGrath’s project is a prominent example of a Christian theologian looking to science to show the legitimacy of theology. For McGrath, science’s ...
( Category: Science & Religion February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lars Q. English

4.3 Phases, Protectorates, and Emergence An adherent of strict reductionism might say, “In the final analysis, it is always microscopic law that determines macroscopic phenomena.” To which we can now ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Norbert Wiener

V I have said that the reprobation attaching in former ages to the sin of sorcery attaches now in many minds to the speculations of modern cybernetics. For make no ...
( Category: Science & Religion February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Whitehead, Alfred North; [North Whitehead, Alfred]

(1). Let a rectangular Cartesian system of coordinates in the permanent space of the ‘x’ time-system be (x1, x2, x3) and let the lapse of x-time since zero time be ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Morriss, Andrew, Desroches, Pierre, Meiners, Roger

9. Agricultural Revolutions and Agency Wars: How the 1950s Laid the Groundwork for Silent Spring Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss Silent Spring has acquired iconic status in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 28,2020 )