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Introduction: Women’s voices in Renaissance and early modern scientific culture
GalilæanaThis focus section reassesses the overlooked yet meaningful role of women in shaping early modern scientific culture during the late Renaissance and the seventeenth century. By foregrounding marginal spaces and manuscript sources, these six essays offer
Meredith K. Ray, Natacha Fabbri
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What if reality has no architecture? [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this paper is to show that we can deny that reality is neatly segmented into natural kinds and still give a plausible view about what science is supposed to do – and the way science in fact works does not rely on the dubious metaphysical ...
Nanay, Bence
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]
, 2013 Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan +4 more
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QCD and Natural Philosophy [PDF]
Annales Henri Poincaré, 2003 QCD sheds considerable light on several of the most basic features of the natural world including the origin of mass, the feebleness of gravity, the extent to which the properties of matter can be determined conceptually, the possible utility of the anthropic principle, and the metatheoretic notions of effectiveness and computability.
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A Perspective on Interactive Theorem Provers in Physics
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Into an interactive theorem provers (ITPs), one can write mathematical definitions, theorems and proofs, and the correctness of those results is automatically checked. This perspective goes over the best usage of ITPs within physics and motivates the open‐source community run project PhysLean, the aim of which is to be a library for digitalized physics
Joseph Tooby‐Smith
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The Didactic, Persuasive and Scientific Uses of Illustrations After Descartes
Noctua, 2015 The aim of this article is to unveil the ways of teaching new philosophical paradigms in Dutch Universities between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century, by means of an analysis of the uses of illustrations in Cartesian and Newtonian natural-philosophical ...
Andrea Strazzoni
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The Excellency of Theology: A Critique of Robert K. Merton\'s \"Puritan Thesis,\" with Reference to the Works of Robert Boyle [PDF]
, 2012 Robert K. Merton's "Puritan Thesis" asserts a direct correlation between Puritan theological beliefs and participation in natural philosophy (what today would be known as science).
Patton, Elizabeth
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A synergistic electron transfer (ET) optimization strategy modulating conformational dynamics, ET pathway, and substrate orientation is proposed for self‐sufficient cytochrome P450s. Guided by this strategy, a P450 variant with improved ET and catalytic efficiency was identified, and the underlying molecular basis was revealed by computational analysis.
Ziqi Liang +9 more
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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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