History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:William Rankin [Rankin, William]

I INTEND TO ADDRESS YOU TODAY ON THE THEORY OF COLOURS. A Bare Bodkin In 1665 Robert Hooke published his Micrographia. It contained excellent drawings of fleas by Christopher Wren, ...
( Category: Physics August 20,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Rankin

I INTEND TO ADDRESS YOU TODAY ON THE THEORY OF COLOURS. A Bare Bodkin In 1665 Robert Hooke published his Micrographia. It contained excellent drawings of fleas by Christopher Wren, ...
( Category: Physics August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cherry Lewis

The fossil tubipore in limestone from Derbyshire (centre) on which Parkinson performed his experiment. Top left, a cross-section of the coral and, top right, the ‘animal membrane’ which remained after ...
( Category: History August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Newitz, Annalee [Newitz, Annalee]

An artist’s conception of what the ancient city of Çatalhöyük might have looked like. There were no streets, and people entered their homes through holes in the roofs. (illustration credit ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Andrew Shtulman

ESSENTIALISM, FOR ALL its trouble, allows us to map different physical states to the same organism across development: from calf to cow, piglet to pig, gosling to goose. We can ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling August 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-30 | Author:Dick Teresi [Teresi, Dick]

8 Technology: Machines as a Measure of Man Mesopotamia Mesoamerica Africa India China Notes 1 A History of Science: Rediscovered 2 Mathematics: The Language of Science 3 Astronomy: Sky Watchers ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 19,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-18 | Author:Ian Crofton

LAND, LABOUR AND POWER From the early days of settled agricultural societies, control over land was a crucial feature of economics, society and politics in many parts of the world. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carol Ann Rinzler [Rinzler, Carol Ann]

The idea was scientifically wrong, but like most of Hippocrates’ theories, a giant step forward nonetheless. With “germs” a concept still centuries in the future, Hippocrates challenged the prevailing view ...
( Category: Evolution August 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-17 | Author:Loren Coleman

The Big Muddy Monster The rest of the summer months of 1973 were taken up with the events near the Big Muddy River. The creature—which would quickly be called the ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Hofstadter [Hofstadter, Douglas and Sander, Emmanuel]

What is San Francisco’s Loveliest Spot? Union Square? Chinatown? Twin Peaks? The Great Highway? The Cliff House? Pacific Heights? The Golden Gate Bridge? Fisherman’s Wharf? Golden Gate Park? The Presidio? ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Livio, Mario [Livio, Mario]

Figure 22 There was one thing that the B2FH paper did not achieve. No matter how hard they tried, Hoyle and his collaborators did not manage to account for the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 17,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.P. McEvoy [J.P. McEvoy]

The second law states that if a gas or vapour composed of a single element is heated, it will emit bright lines at definite wavelengths. The third law states that ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:S. Josephine Baker

CHAPTER VII BABY HEALTH STATIONS, AS WE CALLED THEM, were among the Bureau’s earlier achievements and, as I look back on our work, were the place at which we first ...
( Category: Medical August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Kitty Ferguson [Ferguson, Kitty]

IN GRAZ, later that same month, on April 27, Johannes Kepler and Barbara Müller were wed in a splendid celebration at Barbara’s own residence. In spite of Kepler’s less than ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

Fracastoro’s was the first scientific statement of the true nature of contagion, infection, disease germs, and modes of disease transmission. Fracastoro’s theory was widely praised during his time, but its ...
( Category: Evolution August 16,2017 )