History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2007-04-14 | Author:Joseph Mazur

THE GHOST OF Zeno appeared in 1734 as George Berkeley, the Anglican Bishop of Cloyne in County Cork, Ireland. In Berkeley’s view, calculus, the new mathematics, failed to conform to ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:David P. Barash [Barash, David P.]

We do not have a stem linking us to our mother anymore, but when we were in her womb we had a long stem, an umbilical cord. The oxygen and ...
( Category: Religious Studies April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Demetris Nicolaides

GEOCENTRIC VERSUS HELIOCENTRIC: THE RELATIVE TRUTH Pythagorean Cosmology Being a great geometer who understood well the relationships of spheres, flat surfaces, and lines, Pythagoras was probably the first to deduce ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Jonathan Marks

Notes 1 The call to remove the experimenter from the analysis is so powerful that young scientists are often instructed to write in the passive voice – “the temperature was ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 14,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marion Dolan

13A manuscript of Adelard’s treatise on the astrolabe still survives, De opere astrolapsus, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean MS 165; see also Tester p. 43 for more information on this manuscript. ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:David Harker [Harker, David]

Are there more reliable ways of generating data than those I’m relying upon? Are emotional considerations crowding out more relevant information? Is my memory of certain events or data clouded ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-14 | Author:Paley, William; Eddy, Matthew D.; Knight, David

CHAPTER XIX OF INSECTS WE are not writing a system of natural history;* therefore, we have not attended to the classes, into which the subjects of that science are distributed. ...
( Category: Philosophy April 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-24 | Author:Peter J. Bowler & Iwan Rhys Morus [Bowler, Peter J.]

FIGURE 11.3 Niels Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom in which an electron could only orbit the central nucleus in orbits defined by Planck’s Constant, h. A young Danish physicist, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 14,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-20 | Author:Clark Blaise [Blaise, Clark]

The Victorian mantra is simple and ringing: Be of practical use to society, serve mankind. What good is theory if it does not improve the lives of common man? This ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy Morton

3 Subscendence It is believed that one cannot be more than man. Rather, one cannot be less! —Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own Idris: Are all people like this? ...
( Category: Philosophy April 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:David Grimm [Grimm, David]

A Meeting of the Minds The day after Joyce Tischler’s pep talk at the Benson Hotel, the Animal Law Conference begins in earnest. Lewis & Clark has been the host ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Christian, David [Christian, David]

Rates of Innovation We have seen that population growth, increasing state power, and increasing commercialization all stimulated innovations and growth in the era of agrarian civilizations. But each of these ...
( Category: Evolution April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:DeWitt, Richard

Chapter Twenty-Two The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700–1900 As with the Aristotelian worldview, the Newtonian worldview is not a static set of beliefs. It developed and changed in the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:Michael S. Walker

We are now going to demonstrate this using a thought experiment. Imagine that we hook the two batteries together in series (negative terminal of one to the positive terminal of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2017-05-03 | Author:Doug Millard [Millard, Doug]

First sealed-off travelling wave tube, made by Rudolf Kompfner, England, 1945–6. The Telstar 1 satellite used a travelling wave tube to amplify the signals being relayed across the Atlantic. Replica ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 13,2018 )