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  Dear Lina: All my papers are printing, with the postscript and all, and are allowed to be very valuable.


id: 35489
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  A General Index of Reference to every Observation of every star in the above mentioned British Catalogue


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  the Mechanical Heart for a Complete Bypass of the Right Heart in a Patient with Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis


id: 40782
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  Determinations of Gravity and the Magnetic Elements in Connection with the United States Scientific Expedition


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  On the Correction of a Pendulum for the Reduction to a Vacuum, Together with Remarks on Some Anomalies Observed in Pendulum Experiments


id: 22085
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  ''The Oscillating Recorder for Automatic Tracing of Plant Movements'' before the New York Academy of Sciences


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id: 34912
title: Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman''s Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
author: Zahm, J. A. (John Augustine)
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  learned men and women of her time? idea of writing a book on woman''s work in things of the mind. a certain number of women the following words: "Great will be your glory women of ancient Rome, who gave to the world so many and so great men in learned of women"; but her literary work, it is probable, did not extend pharisaical men of the time, who looked askance at all learned women and attention--women who attained eminence in physical and natural science, knowledge of Latin, but were far from being able, like the Italian women women of an opportunity of acquiring knowledge, men work against the quotes of women "illumined of great sciences," and consider the "it is a work which few men are able to read and which only one woman Why men, rather than women, should have achieved this work of was a most dangerous thing for women; that no woman should study science


id: 19080
author: Hubbard, Elbert
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  People go to church to watch and pray, but a man I know says that women ragweed, while all the time the young man was under the hedge working work in the town making furniture and earn a man''s wage," he said. The year after Galileo issued his book, Porta put out a work much more right for a man to believe what he wished, but to teach others things studied, and worked for years, and I know so little--all I can do is to Just about this time, Humboldt, taking the cue from Goethe, said: "Man wrote a book of three hundred pages called "Darwinism, or the Man-Ape." This time love saw things that the learned men of Upsala failed to life-work, and it so placed him before the world that all he said or did No man ever knew so much about his work as John

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  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists


id: 35489
title: Famous Men of Science
author: Bolton, Sarah Knowles
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  because his father thought this study was a waste of time for a man who reading old books, till the time came for him to go home, the servant After this great work was published, Cuvier went with his family to Years later, Caroline gave this picture of that early life: "My brothers He was now forty years old,--not young to begin the study of a new and Paris, devoting his time to his great work. At this time, a young man came to board at the house of Mrs. Davy, He says: "At that time I painted all day, and sold my work during During the last twelve years of his life, he devoted much time to our "The time had come," said he, years afterward, "when even the small working in the water at this time of year, the cold to the hands and


id: 37427
title: Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions
author: Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons)
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  somewhat large experience in teaching physical science to college brilliant results show so great scientific merit or such eminent power will not gain the new culture you seek unless you study science in the value of scientific studies as a means of education. great is the educational value of the physical sciences, when properly electrical science, without whose unselfish labors the great result education of young minds to present any department of physical science the great interest with which scientific men have looked for some direct few great cardinal principles which form the basis of physical science. Professor Rogers''s scientific knowledge, and his large experience in But the natural sciences should be studied as useful familiar with the methods of natural science as are the students of To the scientific student the powers of observation and conception are physics, and the two sciences ought to be studied to a great extent in


id: 1705
title: A History of Science — Volume 1
author: Williams, Henry Smith
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  knowledge force us to speak of as the dawn of history, man had reached discovery, the scientific ideas of primitive man may be roughly listed 2. Primitive man must, from a very early period, have observed that the observation of historical man in antiquity makes it somewhat doubtful prove that the Egyptian of that early day had attained a knowledge of new year''s day was accomplished through observation of the time of the fact that the Babylonian new year dates from about the period of the the Greeks borrowed certain measures of time from the Babylonians. The Sun in a Years time, and the Moon in the space originated long before the time of the Greek philosophers. had conceived sun, moon, stars, and earth to be of one substance might habitable earth, as known to the Greeks of that day, was a relatively for the later period of Babylonian history--the time when the Greeks


id: 34067
author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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  in science than those of any man of his time, and whose idea of the wrote his historical scientific study [Footnote 2] of the great The greatness of Copernicus''s life-work can best be realized from the which he lived and did his work, we are sure that a great original in the Roman University at the time, says that "Father Kircher''s book these modern times to consider that scientific progress in the interest in many sciences and by various scientific works that showed ideas into the science as the first great observer. science generally in his time, Steno''s discussions of the reason for Stensen worked out the remaining years of his life. the development of modern science possible, came in earlier centuries, great {172} scientific geniuses of all time--one of the men who Like many another advance in science, Haüy''s first great original step has been well said--for science a new century begins every second.

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  Catholic Churchmen in Science [First Series] Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science


id: 1708
title: A History of Science — Volume 4
author: Williams, Edward Huntington
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  more important than his discoveries of chemical properties in general had Watt taken the steps to demonstrate his theory, the great "Water of the air uniting with the hydrogen to form water, leaving the nitrogen Until the time of Scheele the great subject of organic chemistry had hydrogen, for example, combine with one volume of oxygen to form water. regard the plant and animal organisms as chemical laboratories in which experiments it had long been observed that when animal or vegetable the forms of organized bodies of different kinds, by which each may be cell-like character of certain animal tissues had come to be matter of theory takes its place as the great central generalization in physiology form of organism has developed from another; that different species the entire organic world, animal and vegetable, must be in a state of The decade that followed that discovery was a time of great activity in


id: 30495
title: A History of Science — Volume 5
author: Williams, Edward Huntington
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  CHAPTER III--THE ROYAL INSTITUTION AND LOW-TEMPERATURE RESEARCHES radio-activity upon heat-giving life of the sun and the earth, p. origin of such institutions as the British Museum, the Royal Society, can best gain a present-day idea of this famous institution by attending little more than a century ago, the Royal Institution of Great Britain work, namely, of Professor James Dewar on the properties of matter at work has made the Royal Institution again the centre of low-temperature all the recent low-temperature work would have been mere scientific famous scientific institution and the work that is being accomplished Another important result of Professor Lockyer''s very recent studies has case, make up the work of the laboratory student of general biology. laboratory in which to study zoology that exists in the world to-day, or the German method of working, and in this regard Professor Haeckel is during which time he fully organized the work of the institution along


id: 36343
title: The Universe a Vast Electric Organism
author: Warder, Geo. W. (George Woodward)
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  Electricity must be light, heat, life and creative force, like an electric clothing of light and life, leaped into power, force of his electric organism, so simple and universal are the laws of Thus by electrical forces nature builds all human and animal life-forms electric center of life-force, or magnetic core, which, under the law of force as the electric life-giving currents that come from the sun electric belt which surrounds the earth, sun and planets is light, heat atmosphere of suns and planets where the life-giving electric currents currents of electric power and magnetic force, weaving forms and It is a universal law of nature that wherever great electric power is the sun furnishes the electric power and the earth heats itself. substance and electric power of suns and planets to our own world leads formed in the electric currents of life and power, which are the first


id: 1707
title: A History of Science — Volume 3
author: Williams, Henry Smith
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  James Hutton and the study of the rocks--His theory of the earth--His that water exists in the air as an independent gas--Hutton''s theory of nature of heat--Causing water to boil by the friction of the borer--His final determination that heat is a form of motion--Thomas Young and the time, it is obvious that to these observers the sun will appear to be lifted above the surface of the water to form new continents? originally been formed, by the known laws of nature, in their present elevation of the bodies of land above the water on the earth''s surface and from this time on it had been known that heat is taken up when water He did not speak of heat, light, electricity, as forms thing be true of all those other forms of "force"--light, electricity, is that all the known forms of radiant energy-heat, light,


id: 1706
title: A History of Science — Volume 2
author: Williams, Edward Huntington
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  scientific field whatever for about a thousand years after the time of times, written from the practical experience of the physician, and not a Like other philosophers in all ages, he had observed a great number of as known at that time, comprised Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, makes the sun the centre of all the planetary motions, the earth being be the all-important body in the universe, and the sun a luminary placed fact that his entire body was in some way influenced by the motion of force generates in a given time, when it puts the body in motion, is different forces, operating at the same time upon a moving body, be the history of most great discoveries for all time. after having given it a new electricity, repels it a second time, which experiment to determine the effects of electricity upon the body.


id: 22085
title: Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
author: Bose, Jagadis Chandra
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  Waves on different kinds of matter, Dr. Bose invented a new type of present wireless system." Practical application of the results of Dr. Bose''s investigations appeared so important that the Governments of showing electric response for certain portions of the plant organism, unity of physiological effects of drugs on plant and animal tissues and "These new contributions" made by Dr. Bose on Plant Response "were Hitherto Dr. Bose detected the various excitatory effects of plants by January 1909, he delivered a lecture on ''Growth Response of Plants'' Dr. Bose showed not only that the nervous impulse in plant and in man is University Hall, Dr. Bose of Calcutta dealt with "Plant Response." He life, as is seen in the plant, we shall be able to make the science of The last experiment was in regard to the effect of electricity on plant different as the life activities in plants and in animals.


id: 5694
title: The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
author: Various
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  the great artery, appear springing from the heart. OF THE QUANTITY OF BLOOD PASSING THROUGH THE HEART FROM THE VEINS quantity of blood which the left ventricle of the heart will heart, for it is the only organ in the body which contains blood the human subject so like the cow-pox that, in many cases, it the great number of cases occurring in his practice, "The cause Fermentation soon takes place in them, and the carbonic acid gas first case, and 1 of yeast to 89 of fermented sugar in the the day when fermentation first appears in the production of a yeast sufficient to cause the first appearance of fermentation Fermentation by means of yeast appears, therefore, to be whilst in the other case the ferment consists of cells of yeast. and constitute their ferment, live without air or free oxygen; pure sugar, caused to ferment by means of yeast, contains none of


id: 15905
title: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  belief in the Gospel theory of the universe failing them, is the fact, adequate account of the life and work of Jesus, it is evidence of the respect to the nature and order of things in the theological world denoted a thing--as if a "law of nature," as science understands it, In the same way, a law of nature, in the scientific sense, is the expression of the laws of nature in accordance with the new facts. of natural law; and the Duke of Argyll says that he believes my same breath, "In this sense the laws of nature are simply those facts use "law" in the sense of a statement of the order of facts, this is a that general law or statement of the order of facts, called the simply a question of evidence." In science, we think Up to the present time, so far as I know, that evidence has


id: 39713
title: The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
author: Poincaré, Henri
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  Why, then, does science actually need general theories, despite the fact confirm by definite experience the objective validity of the principles mean of that space which is the object of geometry and which I shall Finally, I shall suppose that a body transported from one point to Like Newton''s laws, and, for an analogous reason, the principle of the Experiment gives us only a certain number of isolated points. shall only have to let the law of great numbers act. effect of great numbers, the mean phenomena, alone observable, obey the if, placing myself at the objective point of view, I observe a certain space we can in fact define in magnitude and direction a certain force relative position of this object with regard to our body has changed. know the points of space, or more generally the final situation of our Knowing force, it is easy to define mass; this time the definition


id: 15884
title: Young Folks'' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
author: nan
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  Natural History, Wonders of Earth, Sea [Illustration: SEA CLIFFS SHOWING A SERIES OF STRATIFIED ROCKS.] places remains of sea-animals are found in mountain heights, as much and at the same time the floor of the ocean, animals lived and died rocks were all formed in very early ages, and that only water-made the solid inside or "nucleus," a sea of melted rock long existed, the In all ages of the world''s history up to the present day, rock-making all the said layers of water-built rocks signs of past life. by the ocean-waters, with fresh remains of sea-animals buried in with times, we have preserved only the rocks formed in the seas. In the sea animals of this time we find many changes. In this time of the earth''s history we have the first bird-like forms. case of two suns like those forming a double star.


id: 14565
title: Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
author: Humboldt, Alexander von
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  a. Form of the earth, its mean density, quantity of heat, electro-magnetic volcanic rocks, spring water forms, by precipitation, strata of limestone. barometrical height at the level of the sea in different zones of the earth. existing among the facts observed, can not form a conception of the present times that of the Earth; period of revolution, 217.387 years; mean long., according to the different degrees of distance from the Sun, appears very obedience to the laws of general gravity in conic sections round the Sun. When these masses meet the Earth in their course, and are attracted by it, [footnote] *Argelander, in the important observations on the northern light accurate observations on the temperature of the sea at different latitudes [footnote] *See the series of observations made by me in the South Sea, observed in different portions of the earth''s surface, to manifest such a


id: 40782
author: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
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  American engineers and mechanics were working diligently to develop [Illustration: FIGURE 8.--DRAWING OF 1885 BENZ engine, showing [Illustration: FIGURE 20.--PISTON AND CONNECTING ROD of second engine. [Illustration: Figure 1.--THE DIAL PLATE of the Borghesi clock, showing [Illustration: Figure 8.--THE BORGHESI CLOCK in the Museum of History Borghesi was working on yet another astronomical clock, this time [Illustration: Figure 20.--TWO VIEWS OF BOLLMAN-BUILT "water-pipe truss" [Illustration: Figure 3.--SCALE MODEL of _Steam Battery_, showing double [Illustration: Figure 11.--HOOSAC TUNNEL survey crew at engineering [Illustration: Figure 12.--WORKS AT THE CENTRAL SHAFT, HOOSAC TUNNEL, [Illustration: Figure 6.--THE RESULT of early pendulum experiments was pendulum in front of a seconds clock and determined the time of swing by [Illustration: Figure 12.--THE KATER CONVERTIBLE PENDULUM in use is [Illustration: Figure 17.--REPSOLD-BESSEL REVERSIBLE PENDULUM apparatus [Illustration: Figure 19.--THREE PENDULUMS USED IN EARLY WORK at the [Illustration: Figure 20.--SUPPORT FOR THE PEIRCE PENDULUM, 1889. [92] "Pendulum Apparatus for Gravity Determinations," _Engineering_

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  Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology


