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University Of Basel Academy Of Science
2,249 wordsLeonhard Euler's father was Paul Euler. Paul Euler had studied theology at the University of Basel and had attended Jacob Bernoulli's lectures there. In fact Paul Euler and Johann Bernoulli had both lived in Jacob Bernoulli's house while undergraduates at Basel. Paul Euler became a Protestant minister and married Margaret Bruce, the daughter of another Protestant minister. Their son Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, but the family moved to Riehen when he was one year old and it was in Riehen, no...
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Steam Engine One Problem
1,762 wordsAnother worker in applied mathematics belonging to the period under consideration was Heron of Alexandria. His much disputed date, with possibilities ranging from 150 BC to 250 AD, has recently been plausibly placed in the second half of the first century AD. His works on mathematical and physical subjects are so numerous and varied that it is customary to describe him as an encyclopedic writer in these fields. There are reasons to suppose he was an Egyptian with Greek training. At any rate his ...
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York Franklin Watts Peoples Lives
846 wordsContent Area: Persuasive Speaking, and writing components Integrated Area: Art / drama , science, and social studies -that technology affects peoples lives-past, present, and future. -that as technology changes, peoples lives change. Objectives: The students will be able to: -evaluate the change of a certain invention from the past to the future; -work as a group to complete a task or assignment. Ben censored , J. (1978). The first book of automobiles. New York: Franklin Watts. Ben censored , J....
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Quantum Mechanics Main Issue
1,046 words... derivation and decision making. The same applies to the couplets: order / disorder, element / system, evolution / revolution and not alive / alive. The latter is at the heart of the applied ethical issue of abortion: when should a foetus begin to be considered a live thing? Life springs suddenly. It is not more of the same. It is not a matter of quantity of matter. It is a qualitative issue, almost in the eye of the beholder. All these are problems that call for a non-continuum approach, for...
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Quantum Mechanics Truth Value
1,498 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? Jose Ortega y Glasses said (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurr...
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Academy Of Science Petersburg Academy
571 wordsLeonhard Euler, (born April 15, 1707, died Sept. 18, 1783), was the most prolific mathematician in history. His 866 books and articles represent about one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800. In pure mathematics, he integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis; refined the notion of a function; made common many mathematical notations, including ...
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University Of Pisa Galileo Galilei
2,094 wordsGalileo We live in time of dusk's of Christianity, when majority of sociologists agree that it is only a matter of 50 - 100 years, before this religious doctrine extinct. Even in present time, going to church became a shallow ritual for the most of Christians, who think of this religion as another comforting thing in life. Yet, there were times when promoters of good news used not to just exercise a spiritual authority over people in Europe, but also impose their views in the field of empirical ...
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Scientific Method Scientific Theories
2,278 wordsScientific Method Compared to Other Ways of Learning in the World The scientific method is the process by which scientists, collectively and over time, endeavor to construct an accurate (that is, reliable, consistent and non-arbitrary) representation of the world. Recognizing that personal and cultural beliefs influence both our perceptions and our interpretations of natural phenomena, we aim through the use of standard procedures and criteria to minimize those influences when developing a theor...
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Garden Of Eden Boys And Girls
1,704 words/ 5 / 4 Discuss Margaret Laurence "The Loons" and Alice Munro The Found Boat." How do they depict Canadian/Western Canadian landscapes, characters, and values? O temporal, o mores! (Oh, different times, or different values! ) Greek philosopher I would like to start by saying that Alice Munro is well known for her strength of the fiction based on the regional focus with most of her stories speaking about Huron County, Ontario, that makes her a famous Canadian writer. She has gained recognition ac...
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1,741 words/ 5 / 4 Discuss Margaret Laurence "The Loons" and Alice Munro The Found Boat." How do they depict Canadian/Western Canadian landscapes, characters, and values? O temporal, o mores! (Oh, different times, or different values! ) Greek philosopher I would like to start by saying that Alice Munro is well known for her strength of the fiction based on the regional focus with most of her stories speaking about Huron County, Ontario, that makes her a famous Canadian writer. She has gained recognition ac...
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Faith In God Iambic Pentameter
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Archimedes Syracuse Quot
372 wordsArchimedes (287 - 212 BC), preeminent Greek mathematician and inventor, who wrote important works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he anticipated many of the discoveries of modern science, such as the integral calculus, through his studies of the areas and volumes of curved solid figures and the areas of plane figures. He also proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the...
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Steam Engine S B
1,801 wordsAnother worker in applied mathematics belonging to the period under consideration was Heron of Alexandria. His much disputed date, with possibilities ranging from 150 BC to 250 AD, has recently been plausibly placed in the second half of the first century AD. His works on mathematical and physical subjects are so numerous and varied that it is customary to describe him as an encyclopedic writer in these fields. There are reasons to suppose he was an Egyptian with Greek training. At any rate his ...
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Level Of Reality Subatomic Particles
2,410 wordsIn autumn of 1992, one of the worlds greatest contemporary physicists passed away. David Bohm, whose work inspired many people all over the world, died in London. David Bohm's contributions to science and philosophy are profound, and they have yet to be fully recognized and integrated on the grand scale. David Bohm was born on December 20, 1917, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bohm was fascinated by the dazzling concepts of cosmic forces and vast expanses of space that lie beyond our understandin...
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Royal Society White Light
1,996 wordsNewton, Sir Isaac (1642 - 1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he went to school, he began to attend Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and a Lucasian mathematics professor in 1669. He stayed at the university, lecturing most of the years, until 1696. During these Cambridge years, in which Newton was at the top of his creative power, he si...
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World Report Volume U S News 038 World
1,236 wordsA Quantum Computer a future technology By the strange laws of quantum mechanics, Folger, a senior editor at Discover, notes, an electron, proton, or other subatomic particle is in more than one place at a time, because individual particles behave like waves, these different places are different states that an atom can exist in simultaneously. Ten years ago, Folger writes, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, argued that it may be possible to build an extremely powerful computer based...
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University Of Cambridge Nobel Prize
1,250 wordsYazan Fahmawi T 3 IBS Chemistry Ms. Redman Historical Development of Atomic Structure The idea behind the " atom" goes back to the Ancient Greek society, where scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller, more fundamental particles called elements. They called these particles atoms, meaning " not divisible. " Then came the chemists and physicists of the 16 th and 17 th centuries who discovered various formulae of various salts and water, hence discovering the idea...
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2,208 wordsIsaac Newton Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to our site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta. I INTRODUCTION Newton, Sir Isaac (1642 - 1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. He...
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History Of Time Space And Time
2,624 wordsMany people think of science as a collection of facts and ideas about the world around us. But science is more than of how human beings have brought their individual strengths and weaknesses to the ever going struggle to learn more about our world. Stephen Hawking is one of the best-known and most admired scientists in the world today. His life and work have been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles, television documentaries, and even a movie. Part of Hawking s fame comes from hi...
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