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FAMILY HOUSE AND SCHOOL OF DANIEL GABRIEL FAHRENHEIT
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FAMILY BACKGROUND, BIRTH AND BAPTISM OF DANIEL GABRIEL FAHRENHEIT
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The problem of scientific greatness and the role of ordinary scientists [PDF]
Textbooks in physics use science history to humanize the subject and motivate students for learning, but they deal exclusively with the heroes of the field and ignore the vast majority of scientists who have not found their way into history. What is the role of these invisible scientists --- are they merely the worker ants in the colony of science ...
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Supernova 1572 and other newly observed stars in the literature of the time [PDF]
SN 1572, also known as the Tycho's Nova, was a supernova largely reported and discussed in the literature of the time. Here we talk about this literature. In the latest texts, we find also mentioned the Kepler's Nova, today known as SN 1604, and other newly observed stars. We discuss them too.
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Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space [PDF]
Astrobiology is the field of science devoted to searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. It is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating results from multiple fields of science, and in this respect has strong synergies with 'big history'. I argue that big history and astrobiology are both acting to widen human perspectives in intellectually and ...
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The cognitive science of the history of science [PDF]
By looking at the case where science and religion come into direct contact, Leonardo Ambasciano's book An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge (2019) provides a way into the tangle of issues involved in understanding the cultural and cognitive mechanisms that underlie science and religion. In doing
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Historia matheseos. Early development stage history of mathematics, historiography [PDF]
This article focuses on evolvement of the history of mathematics as a science and development of its methodology from the 4th century B.C. to the age of Enlightenment.
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SOCIETAS PHYSICAE EXPERIMENTALIS – THE FIRST PHYSICS SOCIETY IN POLAND. THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIETY
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Epistemological Distinctions Between Science and History [PDF]
This article describes epistemological distinctions between science and history. Science investigates models of natural law using repeatable experiments as the ultimate arbiter. In contrast, history investigates past events by considering physical evidence, documentary evidence, and eyewitness testimony.
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