Essays Tagged: "History of science"
Analysis of the different theories about the nature of space held by Isaac Newton, Carl Leibniz, and Emmanuel Kant
Throughout the history of science there has always been competition among rival theories. An unusual case of intere ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Gregor Johann Mendel
say about Gregor Mendel None...Gregor Johann MendelGregor Mendel was one of the first people in the history of science todiscover genetics. He independently discovered his work and lived in Brunn,Czec ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Basic limitations in modern sciences.
sts itself with the experimental devices, there are basic limitations in the scientific description of nature. The presence of chaotic systems in nature places a limit to apply deterministic laws base ... nature places a limit to apply deterministic laws based upon linear systems established at the core of modern science, which is justified by experimental sciences. The other reason deterministic appro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Al-Razi.
The well-known writer George Sarton says in his Introduction to the History of Science that "Rhazes was the greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages." And the ... he kidney and bladder. Al-Razi wrote a monograph on children's diseases - probably the first in the history of pediatrics. A special feature of his medical system was that he greatly favored cure thro ... could not understand the aims of science" (Galal, M. Pg. 128).Like other great scholars of Islamic history, Razi's erudition was all embracing and his scientific work remarkable. The foregoing descri ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Cultural Significance of Extraterrestrials.
ertainments featuring extraterrestrials are not just entertainments; they are signs.Think about the history of science fiction for a moment. H.G. Wells's classic The War of the Worlds establishes a ce ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Human Cloning
ent of the successful cloning of the sheep "Dolly" in 1997 was one of the major developments in the history of science. It raised an immediate public outcry in both the political and religious media a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Anyone can make things bigger and more complex. What requires real effort and courage is to move in the opposite direction--in other words, to make things as simple as possible.
d to work out a rule over the multiplication by simplifying its awkward computation. Throughout the history of science, there are thousands of good examples like these illustrating the point that, sim ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
"Our Technologies Establish the Truth of many of our Scienttific Laws." Is there any Comparable means of Establishing Moral Rules and Norms?
Throughout the history of science, there have always been experiments to verify scientific theories. For example, a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The Microscope: Science's Greatest Invention?
The microscope has been one of the greatest inventions in the history of science and has had the most impact on the course of science. Ever since the first micros ... ranslated into a picture.The invention of the microscope has definitely been a turning point in the history of man. With a microscope, we can now explain many phenomena we always thought were the crea ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Science Fiction And Gender:
In his book Billion Year Spree; the True History of Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss wrote that Science Fiction is an "all-male escapist power f ... Although the time does not seem too far off.Works Cited Aldiss, Brian. Billion Year Spree; the True History of Science Fiction. New York: Doubleday, 1973.Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness. Ne ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Nansen
e "Fram" ship in the then unknown region of the Arctic Ocean was a kind of a finishing touch to the history of great geographical discoveries of the XIXth century and the starting point of anew era of ... tarting point of anew era of exploring Central Arctic. Nansens expedition is a special event in the history of science. It seems to be incomparable as to the originality and substantiation of the idea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Influences of socratic philoso
s of Socrates, who was an Athenian philosopher and possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy.To begin, after about 450 B.C., Athens was considered the cultural center of t ... r physical world and it's processes. This concept gives the pre-Socratics a central position in the history of science.After the pre-Socratics, emerged the sophists, whose name meant in definition, "w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Isaac Newton
giants.” – Isaac Newton, 1675Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most famous physicists in all history. In fact, in a 2005 poll of the Royal Society, Newton was determined to have had a greater e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Theories in Science
our origins has been probably one of the oldest and most controversial issues faced throughout the history of science. Are humans merely creations of a greater being as written in religious books, or ... same circumstances or continue the research through trial and error.To delve a little more into the history of theories in science, a few examples can be traced back to several scientific theories tha ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Sir Isaac Newton
the foundations of classical mechanics. It is regarded as one of the most influential books in the history of science.Born as a premature child on Christmas day 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Newton was the so ... are in its way.In conclusion, Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most important figures in scientific history. His Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation dominated the scientific view of the physical ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Culture and Genetics Relationship
ongoing traffic between the map and the mapped territory. It has become a common observation in the history of science that models and tools have a life of their own and may profoundly transform the p ... rue for maps in general and genetic maps in particular. As discussed in the previous volume of this history of mapping this form of biological research could only take off when geneticists worked out ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology