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Natural philosophy and the development of mechanics and engineering from the 5th century B. C. to Middle-Ages [PDF]
FME Transactions, 2017 Development of logic into a science served as an instrument for the progress in natural philosophy and the scientific method in the 6th and 5th Centuries BC in China, India, and the Arabian world, the Middle East, the Ancient Greece and Rome.
Chondros Thomas G.
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« Very much in the dark about light » : Franklin, lumières et critiques
Transatlantica, 2009 This essay discusses a critical account of Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity published anonymously in London in 1777. The fundamental question raised was whether Franklin’s famous experiments constituted legitimate natural philosophy in ...
James Delbourgo
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The Natural Philosophy of Economic Information: Autonomous Agents and Physiosemiosis. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Herrmann-Pillath C.
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Anscombe on the mesmeric force of ‘ought’ and a spurious kind of moral realism [PDF]
, 2017 I discuss the second of the three theses advanced by Anscombe in ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’. The focus is the nature of entities to which – if Anscombe’s diagnosis is correct – ought and cognate modals are assumed by modern moral philosophers to refer.
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Quantum Nanomedicine and Quantum Biomaterials
Advanced Science, EarlyView.In this perspective, we define quantum nanomedicine and quantum biomaterials as a paradigm that harnesses quantum effects in nanomedicine and biomaterials, including quantum superposition, quantum coherence, quantum tunneling, topological quantum effects, and spin polarization, to achieve either spatiotemporally precise modulation of physiological ...
Xinyue Dai +3 more
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Confluenze, 2012 This article examines the action of the Lusitanian crown, to promote, in 1783, the travel of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira into America, to collect and describe animals, plants and minerals, besides delimiting frontiers in litigation with Spain.
Eulália Maria Aparecida de Moraes +2 more
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Causality in Islamic Philosophy: The Arguments of Ibn Sīnā [PDF]
, 2012 This article is intended to provide insight into aspects of Ibn Sīnā’s natural philosophy. It will summarize his interpretation of the Aristotelian four causes, explicate his theory of efficient and necessary causal linkage, and analyze his arguments for
Arif, Syamsuddin
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A mechanically adaptive polyimide interface dynamically stabilizes single‐crystal cathodes in sulfide all‐solid‐state batteries. By integrating robust chemical coordination with viscoelastic compliance, this smart coating suppresses parasitic reactions and accommodates cyclic volume expansion.
Jiatao Wu +8 more
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The History of Science and Theology
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022 This entry offers a history of the different ways in which the formal study of the natural world has been related to theological considerations in the Western Christian tradition.
Peter Harrison
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ʿAlī Qūshjī on the Earth’s Motion and Bīrjandī’s Critique [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and SciencesIn his commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād, ʿAlī Qūshjī (d. 879/1474) took s eral radical positions. One notable argument was his insistence that astronomy did not need Aristotelian natural philosophy.
F. Jamil Ragep
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