622 results for "Science"

A Short Textbook of Physics Not Involving the Use of Higher Mathematics

Wilhelm H. Westphal
This book is a translation of the 6th to 8th edition of the author's Kleines Lehrbuch der Physik. The circle of readers to which it hopes to appeal and the author's purpose in writing it have been set out in the Preface to the first German edition, published in 1948. The present book consistently follows the principles of the theory of quantities, the beginnings of which date back to James C. Maxwell. This means that in all equations in this book the symbols invariably stand for physical quantities and not for the numerical values of quantities. Only then are the equations gene rally valid and independent of the choice of units used in their evaluation. The units used are always the "metric" units which have been gaining ground increasingly also in the English-speaking countries. A conversion table for some of the more important Anglo-American units is given on page XIV. I would like to record my sincere gratitude to Mr. Ewald Osers for his pains taking work in making this translation and to Mr. P. C. Banbury, Ph. D., of the Department of Physics, University of Reading, England, both for the advice he has given hirn throughout and for devising the problems specially for this edition.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1968 347 pages

A Study of Gersonides in His Proper Perspective

Nima H. Adlerblum
""A Study of Gersonides in His Proper Perspective"" by Nima H. Adlerblum is a scholarly work that explores the life, philosophy, and contributions of Levi ben Gershon, also known as Gersonides. Gersonides was a Jewish philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and commentator who lived in Provence, France, during the 13th century. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Gersonides' philosophical ideas, including his views on metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. It also examines his contributions to mathematics and astronomy, particularly his work on the Jewish calendar. The author contextualizes Gersonides' ideas within the broader intellectual and historical context of medieval Europe and the Jewish tradition. The book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of medieval philosophy, Jewish studies, and the history of science.This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Literary Licensing, LLC 2013-10 152 pages

The Last Temptation of Max Gold

Max Gold
In The Last Temptation of Max Gold, it's god who visits Earth. Over the course of 4 days and 4 nights, god challenges and tempts Max Gold's resoluteness. With the aid of a few cases of Corona and a carton of cigarettes, Max Gold supports and defends the logic imparted to him from Satan. Upon realizing his futility, god vanishes and humanity's salvation finally becomes a possibility.
Four Corners Press 2014-04-23 60 pages

The Mechanistic Conception of Life

Jacques Loeb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2022-10-26 240 pages

Inquiries and provocations: selected writings, 1929-1974

Feigl, Herbert
The title is his own. Herbert Feigl, the provocateur and the soul (if we may put it so) of modesty, wrote to me some years ago, "I'm more of a catalyst than producer of new and original ideas all my life . . . ", but then he com pleted the self-appraisal: " . . . with just a few exceptions perhaps". We need not argue for the creative nature of catalysis, but will simply remark that there are 'new and original ideas' in the twenty-four papers selected for this volume, in the extraordinary aperrus of the 25-year-old Feigl in his Vienna dissertation of 1927 on Zufall und Gesetz, in the creative critique and articulation in his classical monograph of 1958 on The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'; and the reader will want to turn to some of the seventy other titles in our Feigl bibliography appended. Professor Feigl has been a model philosophical worker: above all else, honest, self-aware, open-minded and open-hearted; keenly, devotedly, and even arduously the student of the sciences, he has been a logician and an empiricist. Early on, he brought the Vienna Circle to America, and much later he helped to bring it back to Central Europe. The story of the logical empiricist movement, and of Herbert Feigl's part in it, has often been told, importantly by Feigl himself in four papers we have included here.
D. Reidel Pub. Co 1981 453 pages

Star Myths of the World, Volume Three Star Myths of the Bible

David Warner Mathisen
The most complete guide to the ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor, sometimes called Astro-theology, which forms the foundation for virtually all of the scriptures, myths, and sacred stories of humanity -- including the texts we call the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible. Explore the scriptures and myths of humanity in a new light as you learn to hear the language in which they are all actually speaking: the language of the stars. Star Myths of the World and How to Interpret Them is a series of volumes exploring the amazing evidence of an ancient, world-wide system of metaphor which underlies all of the world's myths, and points to the conclusion that they are all closely related. Learn how to understand the clues and symbols in the stories which point to specific constellations, and how the constellations fit into the larger heavenly cycles, all of which are used by the ancient wisdom given to our ancestors as a precious inheritance, with information for our benefit and blessing. Volume One explored evidence that this system is worldwide, sampling a few representative myths and stories from ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, ancient China and Japan, and myths from various cultures in Australia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Volume Two explored the massive evidence that the Greek myths are built on the same worldwide system, examining specific myths, gods, and goddesses -- as well as both the Iliad and Odyssey in depth, for their celestial patterns. Volume Three provides a broad survey of the celestial foundations of some of the most well-known stories and characters in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, complete with hundreds of full-color illustrations and star charts.
Beowulf Books 2016-08-03 766 pages

Die Grundlagen Des Physikalischen Begriffssystems: Physikalische Groessen Und Einheiten

Westphal, Wilhelm H
1. Kapitel. Einführung in die Größenlehre.- 1. Physikalische Größen.- 2. Einheiten.- 3. Größensysteme.- 4. Einheitensysteme.- 5. Physikalische Gleichungen.- 2. Kapitel. Größensysteme und Einheitensysteme.- I. Geometrie.- II. Kinematik.- III. Dynamik.- 1. Masse und Kraft.- 2. Physikalische Einheitensysteme der Dynamik.- 3. Das Technische System.- 4. Gravitation.- IV. Elektrodynamik.- 1. Das Größensystem der Elektrizitätslehre.- 1.1. Elektrostatik.- 1.2. Magnetostatik.- 1.3. Elektromagnetismus.- 1.4. Die Feldkonstanten.- 1.5. Die Basisgrößen der Elektrodynamik.- 2. Einheitensysteme der Elektrodynamik.- 2.1. Die Internationalen Einheiten.- 2.2. Die Mieschen Einheiten.- 2.3. Die Wallotschen Einheiten.- 3. Die sogenannten CGS-Systeme der Elektrodynamik.- V. Molekularmechanik.- 1. Teilchenanzahlen.- 2. Die Entwicklung des Molbegriffs.- 3. Die Stoffmenge und das neue Mol.- VI. Wärmelehre.- 1. Temperatur.- 2. Temperaturskalen.- 3. Wärmemenge.- VII. Schlußwort zu den Größen- und Einheitensystemen.- 3. Kapitel. Naturgesetze und Definitionen.- Anhang: Die Geschichte des metrischen Systems.- Literaturhinweise.
Vieweg+teubner Verlag 2012-07-04 48 pages

Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct

Jacques Loeb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Creative Media Partners, LLC 2022-10-27 212 pages

Problems of Physiological Psychology

Jacob Robert Kantor
""Problems of Physiological Psychology"" is a comprehensive book written by Jacob Robert Kantor that delves into the various issues and challenges faced in the field of physiological psychology. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the structure and functions of the nervous system, sensory and perceptual processes, learning and memory, motivation, emotion, and personality. Kantor also explores the various methods and techniques used in physiological psychology research and discusses the ethical considerations involved in conducting experiments on human subjects. The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to both students and professionals in the field of psychology. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of the human mind and the physiological processes that underlie behavior.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Literary Licensing, LLC 2012-05-12 416 pages

The social origins of modern science

Zilsel, Edgar
Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) lived through the best of times and worst of times, through the renewal of scientific optimism and humane politics, and through the massive social collapse into idolatrous barbarism. With it all, and with his per sonal and family crises in Vienna and later in America, Zilsel was, I believe, a th heroic, indeed a model, scholar of the first half of the 20 century. He was widely admired as a teacher, at high schools, in workers education, in research tutoring and seminars. He was an original investigator on matters of the methodology of science, and of the history of the sciences. He was a social and political analyst, as a critical Marxist, of the turmoil of Vienna in the 20s. Above all, he achieved so much as a sociological historian who undertook re search on two central facts of the early modern world: recognition of the cre ative individual, and the ideal of genius; and the conditions and realities of the coming of science to European civilization.
Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000-09-30 267 pages

The Regulation of the Dental Profession by the General Dental Council - The John McLean Archive A Living History of Dentistry Witness Seminar 1

Nairn Wilson,Stanley Gelbier
This transcript of a witness seminar, one of a series of five, provides an intriguing and instructional collection of memoires and insights from senior members of the dental profession and others, especially since the inception of the NHS. Such seminars capture the knowledge of 'witnesses' to the events discussed. These seminars and associated activities form part of a history of dentistry made possible by a significant donation from the eponymous sponsor of the John McLean Archive of Living Dental History. Dr John McLean was a unique icon of British dentistry. He was a leader of the profession, holding many prestigious positions, including President of the BDA, and an expert on dental materials, operative dentistry and prosthodontics. He authored over 100 papers for peer-reviewed journals. The seminars are part of a fitting memorial to a great man and provide information that cannot easily be obtained in books and clinical and research journals.
Lulu.com 2013-12-05 98 pages