Essays Tagged: "discoverer"
Ponce de leon
nd ships to search for the infamous "fountain of youth".In his unwise quest, he became the European discoverer of Florida, which he named "Pascua de Florida" (feast of flowers) after a Spanish Easter ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Tin
TinTin's discoverer is unknown but one thing is known. Tin has been used anddiscovered by the ancients. Tin w ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
The Exploration and Empires to America from foreign countries.
the Far East. Other Europeans called this unexplored area the New World and honored Columbus as its discoverer.- Europeans also called the Western Hemisphere America, after Amerigo Vespucci. An Italia ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Biography on Galileo Galilei
Venus going through phase. Galileo was an Italian physicist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, discoverer, and an astronomer.Galileo was the oldest son of Vincenzo Galilei (his dad). Vincenzo Gal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
What Is Rickettsia.
bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas , lice and ticks. Rickettsias are named after their discoverer, the American pathologist Harold Taylor Ricketts, who died of typhus in Mexico after conf ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology
The the denial of the 'american dream' that was set upon slaves.
m he brought slaves from Africa to serve as the lower class ship hands. Columbus was not the heroic discoverer that we depict him as today. He tried to enslave the Arawak Indians of the Americas, but ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Iron- about its elemental properties and history of the metal.
e-59 54.5 daysFe-60 1,500,000 yearsDiscovery and Origin: Iron's discovery is unknown along with its discoverer. It was discovered in ancient times. The name origin was from Latin and came from the Lat ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences
A Famous Discoverer - The Story of Howard Carter
ard Carter, usually associate it with the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb. As an excavator and discoverer of the famous tomb of King Tut, Howard Carter has won a place in the archaeologist's hall ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt
Christopher Columbus
1451, a boy named Christopher Columbus (See Appendix A), who was born in Genoa, became a sailor and discoverer of a new continent. He spoke Castilian with a little Portuguese. Although he received lit ... itants, are perfect examples of his failures. This is related to how everybody thinks of him as the discoverer of a continent that he never reached. Look in children's books, find a heroic discoverer. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Double Helix
e in the right place at the right time is enough to propel a curious person into the spotlight as a discoverer, developer, or inventor.For instance, Watson joined Francis Crick in bio-molecular resear ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry
The History Of The Atomic Theory and Michael Farraday, including his discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Michael Faraday was the discoverer of the relationship between electricity and magnetism, and that one could not exist witho ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Element Mercury
eters, barometers, electrical devices, etc. Mercury is rarely found out in the open, but an unknown discoverer obtained Mercury from cinnabar ore in Egypt in about 1500 BC. Mercury is member of the tr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Frederick Banting Biography
ou cannot help but remember the one man who made that a defining decade in Canadian history, the co-discoverer of insulin, Sir Frederick Grant Banting. Banting was born on November 14th, 1891 in Allis ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Columbus
Indians, that's hardly what people would consider heroic. The movie portrayed Columbus as a discoverer interested in the Americas solely because it offered new opportunties and freedom in a ne ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Carbon Family
nd electrons.Carbon is classified as a non-metal. Carbon was known to the ancients, and its discoverer is unknown. Carbon is used for steel and filters. (Bentor, Yinon. Chemical Elements. com- ... ons, and 69 neutrons, it is classified as an other metal.Tin was also known to the ancients and the discoverer is unknown. It is used to coat steel cans. (Bentor, Yinon. Chemical Elements.com-Tin) Las ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Mercury
resistant to corrosion. Mercury's name derived from the Latin word Hydragyrum or liquid silver. The discoverer of mercury is unknown but it is a known fact that mercury was well known to the Chinese a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Svante August Arrhenius
dissertation containing the new theo ry to his advisor, Professor Cleve, an eminent chemist and the discoverer of the elements holmlum and thulium. Cleve's unlnterested response was what Arrhenius had ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Wireless Technology
??????????7 Wireless Technology The Beginning/Background: ?A gentleman named Heinrich Hertz was the discoverer of electromagnetic waves, the technical foundation of radio itself. By 1880, Hertz had de ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Does Language Play Roles of Equal Importance in Different Areas of Knowledge?
y information to one another. Without a written document, the knowledge gained will be lost after a discoverer or a researcher of the respective fields of studies dies. For instance, in History, certa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Double Helix Paper
Pursuing the Double HelixThe Double helical structure of DNA was a great discovery. Jim Watson, co-discoverer of the structure, goes on and tells the story of how he and his partner Francis Crick rac ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology