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Copernican Revolutions Revisited in Adam Smith by way of David Hume
Revista Empresa y Humanismo, 2010 This paper revisits Adam Smith’s treatment of Copernicanism and Newtonianism in his essay “The History of Astronomy”. I will provide a detailed analysis of all the comments that Smith makes on the Hume’s oeuvre, noting their concordances and differences.
Eric Schliesser
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Weather, Volume 80, Issue 12, Page 414-418, December 2025.Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long‐term trends and variations in rainfall with high spatial detail for the whole of the UK since 1836, and longer for certain regions.
Ed Hawkins +10 more
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Early Career Recommendations for the Equitable Growth of a Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Sector
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract In addition to steep carbon emission reductions, all modeled pathways to reach global climate goals require carbon removal. Marine carbon dioxide removal has the potential to play a large role in drawing down legacy anthropogenic emissions due to the scalability and durability of proposed methods.
G. D. Kitch +22 more
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Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract My life in science, as a faculty member in Higher Education (The Academy), and as a proud member of AGU, reflects the fact that I am one of the very fortunate ones in the Geosciences who went through undergraduate and graduate years during the true blossoming of the science in the early years after the acceptance of Plate Tectonics.
John W. Geissman
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AGU Advances, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2025.Abstract Understanding how compound extremes affect terrestrial ecosystems is a major challenge in Earth system science. Although the combined effects of stressors are recognized, the manner in which the prestress state determines the basic response mechanism remains unclear.
Wei Pan +9 more
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Classes and problems of natural philosophy of P. Francisco Mendoça SJ
Humanitas, 2016 The author presents De floribus Philosophiae written by the famous Jesuit Francisco Mendoça (†1626), professor of Philosophy and rector of the College of Arts in Coimbra in the first years of the XVIIth century.
Carlota Miranda Urbano
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Lack of Scientific Expertise in US Courts Is a Cause of National Concern in the Post‐Chevron Era
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract Much of the economic growth of the U.S. in the past century is a result of scientific and technological advancements. In disregard for science, the US Supreme Court recently overruled the Chevron doctrine (known as the Loper decision) that mandated courts to defer to an administrative agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
T. Prabhakar Clement +2 more
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Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2019 In 2018, Izvori published another two volumes by academician Žarko Dadić, the eminent Croatian historian of science, and author of a score of books and large number of articles and papers on the history of mathematics, physics and astronomy.
Marijana Borić
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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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