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Cosmological thinking: cultural heritage and challenge [PDF]
, 2010 The limitations of current technology do not allow one to foresee the expansion of the humankind beyond our planet for at least a few decades. Furthermore, the laws of physics, as for as they are known, preclude any form of traveling beyond the speed of ...
Bertolami, Orfeu
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020 This research concentrates on the condition of in the land of Kurds between (6-9 Hi|12-15 AC). In other words, this research demonstrates the role of scientists and scientific institutions in the development of mental sciences.
Hussein Abdulrahman Hussein +1 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]
, 2012 The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro – between science and public
Tyragetia, 2014 Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro (MAST) was opened in 1985 and is now one of the most popular institutions of this type in Brazil. It stores artifacts related to the Brazilian science and technology.
Lucia Marinescu-Tonu
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Juedi Tiantong: The Religious Basis of the Relationship between Tian and Man in Ancient China
ReligionsJuedi Tiantong occurred in ancient China and was the critical foundation for understanding the relationship between Tian and man in China. From the perspective of conceptual history, Juedi Tiantong not only shaped the metaphysical dimension of the ...
Zhejia Tang, Xuedan Li
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Nowe widzenie – astrologiczny i astronomiczny wymiar wizji fotograficznej
Artium Quaestiones, 2018 The paper focuses on the New Vision – one of the most important developments in the history of the twentieth-century photography, whose ambition was to modernize human perception, hence also society.
Dorota Łuczak
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Conniving With Continuations: Representing Goals in a Domain‐Specific Language of Thought
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Wanting composes flexibly with knowing: we can want to know, want to know what someone wants, and so on. In this paper, we develop a goal representation that allows for this type of rich integration between goals and other theory‐of‐mind concepts.
Kartik Chandra +3 more
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Order/Disorder Dichotomies and the Structure of Matter
Philosophy of PhysicsConceptions of order and disorder date back to antiquity and colour modern understanding of the universe, matter, beauty in art, and social organization.
Mira E. P. Sheahan, Greg van Anders
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