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Diagrammatic Reasoning and Modelling in the Imagination: The Secret Weapons of the Scientific Revolution [PDF]
, 2000 Just before the Scientific Revolution, there was a "Mathematical Revolution", heavily based on geometrical and machine diagrams. The "faculty of imagination" (now called scientific visualization) was developed to allow 3D understanding of planetary ...
Franklin, James
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Lessons from the history and philosophy of science regarding the Research Assessment Exercise [PDF]
, 2007 The Research Assessment Exercise (henceforth abbreviated to RAE) was introduced in 1986 by Thatcher, and was continued by Blair. So it has now been running for 21 years.
Gillies, D.
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, 2021 Kinds that share historical properties are dubbed “historical kinds” or “etiological kinds,” and they have some distinctive features. I will try to characterize etiological kinds in general terms a..
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today [PDF]
, 2018 This book describes the state of astrobiology in Europe today and its relation to the European society at large. With contributions from authors in more than 20 countries and over 30 scientific institutions worldwide, the document illustrates the ...
Capova, Klara Anna +3 more
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Philosophia Scientiæ, 2022 The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction” (and of obsolescence), to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate
Jan Maršálek
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Aristotle’s Division of Theoretical Sciences [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the division of theoretical sciences made by Aristotle in several parts of the Corpus. Although there are several possible ways to interprete this division, we have opted for a possible unified one.
Vega González, Camilo
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The Depth of the Heavens – Belief and Knowledge During 2500 Years
Open Astronomy, 2003 For Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) the spiritual cosmos contained the Heavens, Earth and Hell, and it was compatible with the physical cosmos known from Aristotle (384-322 B.C.).
Høg Erik
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The physical tourist. Physics in Glasgow: a heritage tour [PDF]
, 2006 I trace the history of the physical and applied sciences, and particularly physics, in Glasgow. Among the notable individuals I discuss are Joseph Black (1728-1799), James Watt (1736-1819), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872), William Thomson ...
Johnston, S.F.
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Analysing the Coruña Corpus: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Markers
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2022 This paper aims to analyse the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in scientific writing through the use of stance adverbs perhaps and possibly.
Crespo Begoña
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Cry "Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George"? Essay Review of Mary Jo Nye (Ed.); The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) [PDF]
, 2004 FIRST PARAGRAPH This volume is the third thus far published of The Cambridge history of science, planned in eight parts over the last decade by Cambridge University Press.
Gooday, G.
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