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ChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Issue 7, July 2024.The alchemical symbols for metals, acids, bases and salts were still in everyday use in much of the 18th century. The modern notation, which we use today, is due to Berzelius, but the transition was long and arduous and took place between ca. 1775 and 1820 roughly simultaneously with but distinct from the Chemical Revolution.
Curt Wentrup
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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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Relaciones entre Poesía didáctica y Filosofía. Hesíodo, Parménides y Empédocles
Heródoto, 2017 El proyecto del presente trabajo consiste en recuperar cierta función didáctica que parece darse en los vínculos que podemos establecer entre poesía y filosofía.
Maria Cecilia Colombani
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Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen: A Delicate Balance of Health. By Hynek Bartos [PDF]
, 2020 Hynek Bartos does the field of ancient philosophy a great service by detailing the influence of early Greek thinkers (such as Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Diogenes of Apollonia) on the Hippocratic work On Regimen, and by ...
Johnson, Monte Ransome
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Size dependent line broadening in the emission spectra of single GaAs quantum dots: Impact of surface charges on spectral diffusion [PDF]
, 2015 Making use of droplet epitaxy, we systematically controlled the height of self-assembled GaAs quantum dots by more than one order of magnitude. The photoluminescence spectra of single quantum dots revealed the strong dependence of the spectral linewidth ...
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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The Value of Time for Daharis [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2014 Dahar’ is the Arabic word for time and means age or eon. The term ‘Dahari’ was coined by Arabs, near the end of the Sassanid era, to refer to the followers of Zorvanism.
Yahya Solati Cheshmemahi +1 more
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Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi [PDF]
, 2019 The concept of kosmos did not play the leading role in Aristotle’s physics that it did in Pythagorean, Atomistic, Platonic, or Stoic physics. Although Aristotle greatly influenced the history of cosmology, he does not himself recognize a science of ...
Johnson, Monte
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The Anthropic Principle and the Duration of the Cosmological Past [PDF]
, 2004 The place of an anthropic argument in the discrimination between various cosmological models is to be reconsidered following the classic criticisms of Paul C. W. Davies and Frank J. Tipler. Different versions of the anthropic argument against cosmologies
Cirkovic, Milan M.
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Des racines empédocléennes chez Platon ?
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 The way Plato constructs his concept of psukhè appears to be inscribed in a controversy against Empedocles. A plethora of echoes to the agrigentine poem can be read in the Timaeus, the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, such as references to the harmonic summetria
Anne-Laure Therme
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