History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | 1972-01-15 | Author:John Drury Clark

2. The classification of hydrogen, as a fair contributor of energy even though it, naturally, has a zero heat of formation, is explained by the fact that the molecule is ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Headrick, Daniel R.; [Headrick, Daniel R.;]

The Gutenberg Bible, the first large book printed with movable type, came from the Mainz print shop of Johann Gutenberg in the mid-1450s. It was printed on a wooden press, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Ruse, Michael [Ruse, Michael]

CHAPTER NINE Human Evolution TAKE UP AGAIN our trichotomy—Plato, Aristotle, Kant. In respects, since these are such long-standing traditions, one expects to find merits in all three. Why else would ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stamos, David N. [Stamos, David N.]

Contextualist History of Science There are different ways of doing history, and they need not converge given the very same topic. One way is history of ideas, which is popular ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-06 | Author:Alexander Boxer

THE HOUSES OF HEAVEN As a practical matter, computing the stars’ judgments requires that last group of astrological elements which we’ve yet to properly introduce: the Houses of Heaven. These ...
( Category: Astrology January 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

IV Thoreau had loved nature as intensely as Darwin and perhaps more personally. He had seen with another set of glasses. He was, in an opposite sense to Darwin, a ...
( Category: Cosmology January 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

FIVE How Human Is Man? Be not under any Brutal Metempsychosis while thou livest and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE OVER A HUNDRED years ...
( Category: Organic January 18,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...
( Category: Paleontology January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clifford A Pickover

A lightning discharge involves a flow of electrons. The leading edge of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 130,000 miles per hour (60,000 meters/second) and can reach ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Tove Jansson [Tove Jansson]

Ham and I spent ten days: See Letters to Vivica Bandler, Unknown date in a snowstorm. 1950. Started writing the first Moomin story: The date of writing Småtrollen och den ...
( Category: Scandinavian January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:L. S. Fauber

It was not enough to be a critical reader. Every work that civilization had ever created must be assumed false. Regarding certain knowledge as a mode of demonstration and discourse ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-30 | Author:Jeremy Bernstein [Bernstein, Jeremy]

Q. Let me interrupt you for a moment. You have seen the Commission's letter of December 23, 1953, which suspended Dr. Oppenheimer's clearance. A. I have. Q. So far as ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Andrew Brown [Brown, Andrew]

GEORGE HOLT PHYSICS LABORATORY, The University of Liverpool. 5th December 1939 Dear Appleton, The examination of the uranium fission experiments and the calculation of the possibilities of an explosive chain ...
( Category: Particle Physics January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-27 | Author:Kunal K Das [Das, Kunal K]

Figure 11.1 Newton’s second law of motion states that acceleration is proportional to the applied force if the mass or weight of the object is unchanged. (a) A light spring ...
( Category: Pop Culture January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-27 | Author:Kaplan, Robert [Kaplan, Robert]

The triumph of the Arabic numerals Yet Adam Riese was right: people skilled in arithmetic on an abacus, or with their fingers, calculate much more quickly than do those who ...
( Category: Number Theory January 14,2020 )