Backward Science

Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780711249882

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Backward Science by Clive Gifford Pdf

This book is backward! It starts at the end, ends at the beginning, and travels back in history to show you what life was like before major inventions and discoveries. Step into a time before smartphones, television, cars, or even the toilet; then learn about the major invention or discovery that changed the world. Explore bright, detailed, humorous scenes from different eras that will spark discussion and make you think about what life was like in history. Learn about the clever inventors, the accidental discoveries, and how people managed without the everyday things that we take for granted. Detailed, humorous scenes of different eras to explore Key topics of science, technology, and inventions

Author : Clive Gifford
Publisher : QEB Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711249905

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Backward Science by Clive Gifford Pdf

This book is backward! It starts at the end, ends at the beginning, and travels back in history to show you what life was like before major inventions and discoveries. Step into a time before smartphones, television, cars, or even the toilet; then learn about the major invention or discovery that changed the world. Explore bright, detailed, humorous scenes from different eras that will spark discussion and make you think about what life was like in history. Learn about the clever inventors, the accidental discoveries, and how people managed without the everyday things that we take for granted. Detailed, humorous scenes of different eras to explore Key topics of science, technology, and inventions

Author : Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780889207936

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Science, Pseudo-Science and Society by Marsha Hanen,Margaret Osler,Robert Weyant Pdf

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on “Science, Pseudo–science and Society,” sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities and held at the University of Calgary, May 10–12, 1979. More than many such collections, this one preserves some trace of the intellectual excitement which surrounded this gathering of scholars. A primary inspiration for the symposium on “Science, Pseudoscience, and Society” was a growing awareness of the crucial role the study of pseudo–science plays in the areas of contemporary scholarship which are concerned with the nature of science and its relationship to broader social issues. This volume is organized around three major questions concerning the relationships among science, pseudo–science, and society. The papers in the first section address the question of whether it is possible to draw a sharp demarcation between science and pseudo–science and what the criteria of that demarcation might be. The papers in the second section, recognizing the historical importance of various of the pseudo–sciences, consider their impact—positive or negative—on the development of the sciences themselves. The papers in the third section deal with the question of the relationship between the sciences and pseudo–sciences, on the one hand, and social factors on the other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101007966110

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. H. Sayce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429805325

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Introduction to the Science of Language by A. H. Sayce Pdf

First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and provided an introduction to theories on the nature, behaviour and development of languages along with the morphology and physiology of speech. In it, Sayce was the first to emphasize the principle of partial assimilation and the linguistic principle of analogy. This 4th edition, ten years after the first, reflected on the limitations of science revealed since 1890, in an era when languages, like other humanities subjects, still idealised scientific approaches. Archibald Henry Sayce was one of the greatest comparative linguists of the time, being proficient in Accadian, Arabic, Cuneiform, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Hittite, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Phoenician, Sanscrit and Sumerian. He had a good knowledge of every Semitic and Indo-European language and could write good prose in at least twenty languages. Sayce's first major contribution to scholarship was a highly significant translation of an Accadian seal, a 'bilingual text' from which to translate cuneiform, similar to the Rosetta Stone. Here then, no doubt, the reader learns from a master of comparative linguistics.

Author : Meera Nanda
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813533589

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Prophets Facing Backward by Meera Nanda Pdf

The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization". These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In this passionate and highly original study, Indian-born author Meera Nanda reveals how these well-meaning but ultimately misguided ideas are enabling Hindu ideologues to propagate religious myths in the guise of science and secularism. At the heart of Hindu supremacist ideology, Nanda argues, lies a postmodernist assumption: that each society has its own norms of reasonableness, logic, rules of evidence, and conception of truth, and that there is no non-arbitrary, culture-independent way to choose among these alternatives. What is being celebrated as "difference" by postmodernists, however, has more often than not been the source of mental bondage and authoritarianism in non-Western cultures. The "Vedic sciences" currently endorsed in Indian schools, colleges, and the mass media promotes the same elements of orthodox Hinduism that have for centuries deprived the vast majority of Indian people of their full humanity. By denouncing science and secularization, the left was unwittingly contributing to what Nanda calls "reactionary modernism." In contrast, Nanda points to the Dalit, or untouchable, movement as a true example of an "alternative science" that has embraced reason and modern science to challenge traditional notions of hierarchy.

Author : Patrick Grim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438404980

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Philosophy of Science and the Occult by Patrick Grim Pdf

This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully compelling. Divergent views on astrology, parapsychology, and quantum mechanics mysticism emphasize topics standard to the philosophy of science. Such issues as confirmation and selection for testing, causality and time, explanation and the nature of scientific laws, the status of theoretical entities, the problem of demarcation, theory and observation, and science and values are discussed. Significantly revised, this second edition presents an entirely new section of quantum mechanics and mysticism including instructions from N. David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics. A more complete and current review of research on astrology has been included in this new edition, and the section on the problem of demarcation has been broadened.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015030249083

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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports by Anonim Pdf

Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137456786

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Utopian Literature and Science by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Evolution
ISBN : HARVARD:HW26PB

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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based on the Doctrine of Evolution by John Fiske Pdf

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Evolution
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1X95

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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy by John Fiske Pdf

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11189708

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Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms of the Positive Philosophy by John Fiske Pdf

Author : Ronghuai Huang,Bing Xin,Ahmed Tlili,Feng Yang,Xiangling Zhang,Lixin Zhu,Mohamed Jemni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811669552

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Science Education in Countries Along the Belt & Road by Ronghuai Huang,Bing Xin,Ahmed Tlili,Feng Yang,Xiangling Zhang,Lixin Zhu,Mohamed Jemni Pdf

This book aims to highlight science education in countries along the Belt and Road. It consists of 30 chapters divided into three main parts, namely Arab and African countries, Asian countries and European countries,. We invited science education experts from 29 “Belt and Road” countries to introduce the current status of science education in their countries and the new requirements with the rapid evolution of Information Technology. The major contributions of this book include: 1) Provide the current status of science education in countries along the Belt and Road as well as the requirement for developing and improving science education in these countries; 2) Discuss new insights of science education in future years; 3) Inspire stakeholders to take effective initiatives to develop science education in countries along the Belt and Road.

Author : Dionysius Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNWSYK

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Popular Lectures on Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner Pdf

Author : Zheng Yi Jiang,Chun Liang Zhang
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 4720 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783038134114

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Manufacturing Science and Engineering I by Zheng Yi Jiang,Chun Liang Zhang Pdf

This book brings together the latest advances in, and applications of, manufacturing science and engineering. It comprises 976 papers, selected from among 3062 papers which were submitted by universities and industrial laboratories all over the world. All of chosen papers were subjected to strict peer-review.