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Life and Contributions of Sir Isaac Newton

(Hall, 1999). * Insistence on the experimental basis of true science (Hall, 1999). His major works: * Philosophiae naturalis pri...

Personal Point of View on Stem Cell Transplantation Issues

The controversy surrounding stem cell transplantation is rooted in the fact that stem cells must be harvested from human beings. ...

Leadership of BMW

supervisory board (aufsichtsrat), and the management board (vorstand). This has a strong historic presence and has mandatory since...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

Sociology's Father Auguste Comte

"a system that was built on an intellectual and moral basis and allowed for science...

Human Behavior and the Effects of the Full Moon

very ancient ancestors, experts theorize. Experts tracked the biorhythms of various individuals and found that the new moon and th...

Thales' Philosophy

in his approach, believing in a grand truth beyond our own reality (Eklor, 2003). By determining the basic component of life, Th...

Ancient Alchemy and Its Progress

have causes to which they can be traced, the causes in themselves can be classified into four principles of explanation: material...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Europe of the 1930s and the Relationships Between Government and Science

commune for the people of Germany. The need to establish communes and become self-supporting nations is a Marxist princip...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Atkins Diet Success

effect can be seen almost everywhere. Atkins has influenced the commodities market, advertising, marketing and even changed the w...

An Artificial Intelligence Overview

in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...

Discussion of Extra Solar Planets

(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...

British Scientist John Frederic Daniell's Life and Work

only due to contacts, but also dui to the reputation he had already been establishing for himself. Daniell had been conduc...

Science That Changed the World

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

Antarctic Research and What is Learned from the Connection Between Politics and Science

the changes in the worlds political and economic foundation (Elzinga, 1991). Looking at the area today, there are twenty four co...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...

Quaternary Geology Field and Dendrochronology

the next years new growth cells that make this tree ring and make the dating possible(Easerbro 2004). Working backward through...

Organizational Structure and the Perspectives of Frederick Taylor and Max Weber

modern society and the expansion of the meaning of class through an integrated view of individuals separation within a culture. ...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

Smoking Cessation Speech Example

anything to us anymore. However, when placed in a new perspective, such as in the role of a mass murderer, then the statistics tak...

Time and Philosophy

When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Rockets and Scientist Robert Goddard

In six pages this paper discusses the life of Robert Goddard and the impact of his scientific contributions upon the American spac...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

Western Religion - Trends

faith, new scientific discoveries and theories appear to be offering support for many traditional religious views, particularly in...