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Islamic Views on Contemporary Cosmology
ZygonHere, I present classical and contemporary Islamic views on cosmology in both its ancient or medieval and modern definitions. I briefly review the main ideas of Muslim thinkers (philosophers, exegetes, Sufis, etc.) from over a thousand years ago to today.
Nidhal Guessoum
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SOCIETY, SCIENCE, AND ECONOMICS: THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE CONCEPT OF FAIRNESS [PDF]
Ideological Dominance and Epistemological Relevance; Modelling and Theory Formulation; Instrumentalism; Free Market and Regulated Market; Theory of Imperfect Competition, Fairness, Consensual Correctness, Representational Correctness.
Stanley C. W. Salvary
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Elements of natural history in Sidereus Nuncius [PDF]
, 2014 Scholars often saw 'Sidereus nuncius' as inaugurating a novel genre of scientific writing; one that mixes elements of astronomy and natural philosophy, mixed-mathematics and travel reports, cosmography and the conventions of baroque drawing, elements of ...
Jalobeanu, Dana
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Learning from Bad Teachers: Leibniz as a Propaedeutic for Chinese Philosophy [PDF]
, 2016 One of the challenges facing instructors of Chinese philosophy courses at many Western universities is the fact that students can often bring orientalizing assumptions and expectations to their encounters with primary sources.
DeLapp, Kevin
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, 2016 When Newton articulated the concept of absolute time in his treatise, Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), along with its correlate, absolute space, he did not present it as anything controversial ...
Kochiras, H.
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Memories: Fun and Poignant [PDF]
, 2005 Five retirees share fond memories of their ...
Linfield Magazine Staff
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History of science in basic physics education: what topics are part of this history?
Revista Internacional de Formação de Professores, 2017 Taking as theme the use of the history and philosophy of science as a strategy for the physics teaching in high school, we aim to investigate which topics of physics have already been the object of proposals and investigations in this sense. For this, we
Andre Coelho da Silva +1 more
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Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions
, 2015 Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications, transcription errors, and omissions in these records.
Hamacher, Duane W.
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Stargazing: Observatories at Gettysburg College, 1874-Present
, 2006 Astronomy has long been a subject which has attracted the interest of man. Examples of early astronomers can be found in many ancient civilizations, including but not limited to, the Egyptians, the Chinese and the Greeks.
Carlson, Andrew A.
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Book Review: Galactic Encounters
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2016 Georgios eBalasis
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