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  mike king | writings | Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Science
Science itself was not born with the Greeks (much of their 'science' was just plain wrong); its origins came with the Renaissance, but some of the ground for it was laid in the mathematics and logic of Greek thinkers.
We might say that the science (such as it was), art, and religion were closely integrated in the lives of the Greek thinkers and that their outlook on life was very different to ours today.
In fact modern science is generally hostile to the aspirations of the Theosophists because of its occult overtones; it is, as we shall see, more sympathetic to the transcendent, and more recently to the conventionally religious (or so it seems on the surface).
www.jnani.org /mrking/writings/essays/essaysukc/csasukca.html   (5091 words)

  
 Science Fiction: The Early History
Therefore science fiction is the only literature capable of exploring the macrohistory of our species, and of placing our history, and even our daily lives, in a cosmic context.
For science fiction, like other forms of literature typical of industrial society, is propagated in mass-produced magazines and books, which require advanced manufacturing and distribution as well as a large literate audience.
The period of modern science, technology, and science fiction, which began with the Industrial Revolution just over 200 years ago, would then be equivalent on our spatial scale to.024 inches, about the thickness of a line made by a medium ball point pen.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~hbf/sfhist.html   (2084 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - 1852
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Science kits, science lessons, science toys, maths toys, hobby kits, science games and books - these are some of many products that can help give your kid an edge in their science fair projects, and develop a tremendous interest in the study of science.
Science Fair Projects for students of all ages
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/1852   (630 words)

  
 Thoreau and Science
But even as he tracks science beck to the scientists, and recalls his earlier, Baconian belief that the "poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions," he goes on now to formulate his clearest understanding of the importance of method.
Whitehead observes, in Science and the Modern World, that idealism "has conspicuously failed to connect, in any organic fashion, the fact of nature with their idealist philosophies." This conflict was particularly severe for Thoreau during 1852 and 1853.
His attitude toward science is now quite complex, indeed two-sided, because he is, from this time in his life onward, both a person interested in science and scientific methods, interested in knowing nature, and a writer or artist whose main aim is to express, describe or tell nature.
www.wesleyan.edu /synthesis/Synthesis/Thoreau.html   (5401 words)

  
 University of Cincinnati - Undergraduate Programs
The Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences offers students the opportunity to pursue undergraduate coursework in the area of health science with applications to biomechanics, sports, exercise, wellness, gerontology, marketing, administration, industry, ergonomics and research.
Because of the need to include college coursework in the science and math areas, successful completion of 2 years of high school algebra, one year of high school geometry, one year of high school chemistry and one year of high school biology is recommended.
The College of Allied Health Sciences is a component of the University of Cincinnati.
www.uc.edu /programs/viewprog.asp?progid=1852   (767 words)

  
 Chronology of Science in the United States 1850-1859
The New Orleans Academy of Sciences was established.
The organization that came to be known in 1868 as the California Academy of Sciences was founded at San Francisco as the California Academy of Natural Sciences.
The Academy of Science of St. Louis was established.
home.earthlink.net /~claelliott/chron1850.htm   (2238 words)

  
 R.T. BROWN (1852) - Lecture on the Geology of the State of Indiana
Ages and centuries of the history of our race passed away before the eye of science detected any order or uniformity in the strata composing the solid crust of our globe, or the relation which exists between these several strata and the mineral treasures that lie embosomed therein.
Geology is a younger sister in the great family of human sciences, though it treats of facts and incidents which, in point of antiquity, render the remotest events recorded in history as the deeds of yesterday.
It is on the uniformity of this law of position that the science of Geology is built.
www.indiana.edu /~libgeol/reprints/brown1852.html   (3605 words)

  
 Complexity Digest 2005.13: A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence
Excerpts: Advances in the life sciences, especially in molecular biology and informatics, and the potential for misuse of scientific research (the "dual-use" dilemma) raise the possibility that an act of terrorism could involve biological agents.
One such step is to ensure that all people and institutions involved in science are aware of their ethical obligations.
Paint Additive Hammers Coral, 05/03/26, Science News, A pesticidal additive in the paint applied to ship hulls may be contributing to the worldwide decline of corals.
www.comdig.org /index.php?id_issue=2005.13   (7512 words)

  
 VIII. The Literature of Science: Bibliography. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On scientific writers in the last half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century: Brougham, Henry, lord, Lives of Men of … Science of the time of George III, 1845.
On the general progress in physical science during the first half of the nineteenth century to about 1875: Nichol, John Pringle (1804–1859).
The Connection of the Physical Sciences, 1834, and many later edns.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/224/0800.html   (2927 words)

  
 Wharton School - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1852, has a distinguished reputation for the quality of its programs.
The School of Arts and Sciences provides a foundation for the scholarly excellence that has established Penn as one of the world's leading research universities.
The Arts and Sciences faculty includes Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel laureates, along with numerous elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.
www.wharton.upenn.edu /whartonfacts/news_and_events/newsreleases/2002/p_2002_10_32.html   (551 words)

  
 National Science Foundation Budget Comes Into Focus
As he predicted, the numbers in the House Budget Resolution are being used by House Science Committee Chairman Robert Walker (R-PA) to set budget ceilings for his subcommittees to use as they write their bills.
So while the figures in H.R. 1852, the "National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1995" are not final, they are likely to be in the ballpark.
Mathematical and Physical Sciences FY 1996 Authorization (a component of the R&RA budget funding physics, astronomy, and materials research): $632.20 million.
www.aip.org /fyi/1995/fyi95.083.htm   (645 words)

  
 Member Biographies
From 1852 to 1867, he headed the longitude department of the
The Council lost, and Gould was forcibly evicted from the director's residence early in 1859 by a policeman and a "gang of toughs" in the employ of the trustees.
This celebrated and furious conflict, though it distracted much of America's scientific community and entertained the country, and was also symptomatic of the growing professionalism of science, had little long-term consequence, but Gould was unable to obtain another institutional position in the United States.
www.unionclub.org /focus.html   (1009 words)

  
 Princeton University - A brief history of Princeton degrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Candidates for this degree were required at entrance to be proficient in Latin, but not Greek; both languages were required for the bachelor of arts.
Some students pursued the bachelor of science degree to escape Greek rather than to pursue science.
was eliminated when Greek was dropped as an entrance requirement for the A.B. • In June 2002, 886 students earned bachelor of arts degrees and 202 earned bachelor of science in engineering degrees.
www.princeton.edu /pr/home/02/0628_degrees/hmcap.html   (161 words)

  
 Westminster College: Alumni: The Westminster Fund: 1852 Society
The 1852 Society is Westminster's most prestigious annual recognition club for alumni, parents and friends.
The Society was established to recognize those individuals who provide major support through their gifts for the Westminster Fund for operating expenses or for capital projects for the College.
1852 Society members helps provide the financial foundation to ensure Wesminster's proud heritage and traditions.
www.westminster.edu /alumni/fund/fund_1852.cfm   (196 words)

  
 Degrees
The Bachelor of Science degree was introduced in the 1870s with the expansion of the science curriculum.
It was found not uncommon for a B.S. candidate to major in art and archaeology or English, or for an A.B. candidate to concentrate in chemistry or biology, so that the difference in the degree related more to what the student had studied in secondary school than to what he had done in college.
It was decided in 1930 that, in view of the nontechnical nature of undergraduate study in all the liberal arts and sciences, the same degree would be appropriate for work in every department.
etc.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/degrees.html   (848 words)

  
 No. 1273: Science and Technology in 1852
It gives a neat snapshot of thinking just before a wholly new modern science rose up in the late 19th century.
In practical, hands-on, 19th-century America, science meant both less and more than it does today.
I believe that the change we faced in 1852 was almost as dramatic as the change we face today.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi1273.htm   (496 words)

  
 Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame
The New York Times Science Times section, Tuesday, October 21, 1997 page B9 shows two DNA helices, one associated with nucleosome "spools" and the other associated with a baby sucking a pacifier and holding a teddy bear.
CT technology advances: no longer just science, it is now involved in world business.
Library of Science (A Newbridge Book Club) Advertisement flyer for molecular biology books, 1997 December 31, shows a spectacular right handed DNA switching midstream into a left handed one, and a large left handed one in between the "bible for molecular biologists" and "[almost] an entire library of contemporary molecular biology [squeezed] into one volume".
www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov /~toms/Leftyear1997.html   (2070 words)

  
 Historical Timeline - Tufts University
Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy is established.
The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences is established.
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy is named for its benefactors.
www.tufts.edu /source/timeline/html/1852-p-charles.html   (367 words)

  
 History of Fluorescence.
Fluorescent effects have been observed for thousands of years but it was not until recently that we analyzed it, controled it, and put it to use.
In 1852 the true science of fluorescence was brought to light by Sir George Stokes.
He applied the scientific method to fluorescence and developed the 'Stokes Law of Fluorescence', which dictates that the wavelength of fluorescence emission must be greater than that of the exciting radiation.
www.blacklite.com /Technical/history_of_fluorescence.htm   (388 words)

  
 Internet History of Science Sourcebook
From the late 17th century until the late 19th century that vision of the cosmos was developed and filled in by what we now call "classical science".
The achievements of this period have not been negated by the discoveries and theories of the late 19th and 20th centuries, but are now seen as accurate only with certain boundaries.
This is one of the most successful, and early, statements on Materialism stemming from the conclusions of the New Science.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/science/sciencesbook.html   (2827 words)

  
 Keely and Science - Part 2 of 2 - by Kelly and Clara Jessup Moore
Keely's experiments in disintegrating water prove that incalculable amounts of latent force exist in the molecular spaces; but in the opinion of scientists, molecular aggregation is attended with dissipation of energy, not with absorption of energy.
If the men of science are right, then there must be an absolute creation of energy, for only by admitting its absorption in aggregation, could molecular dissociation supply the force witnessed.
Such a view, far from being contrary to the canons of science, is even the necessary complement of science.
www.theosophical.ca /KeelyAndScienceP2.html   (4458 words)

  
 Exercise Science Homepage
The overarching purpose of the Exercise Science emphasis area within the Department of Health and Physical Education is to provide the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical competencies for our students to be effective and competitive in clinical, corporate, community, and commercial fitness settings.
In designing the Exercise Science emphasis area, the behavioral objectives and standards established by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) were employed (see Plan of Study and Suggested Schedule for 2006).
The Exercise Science emphasis area is not an open option for a degree (i.e., program application and approved admission are required).
www.ngcsu.edu /Academic/Educate/Hpe/Exercise_Science/exscihome.shtml   (395 words)

  
 House Science Committee Marks Up NSF Reauthorization Bill
It was approaching midnight on June 28 when the House Science Committee completed about 40 minutes of consideration of H.R. the National Science Foundation Authorization Act.
When they were finished, NSF funding authorization levels remained the same as those in the subcommittee bill (see FYI #83) although several policy and structural changes were made.
This is widely viewed as being aimed at the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate.
www.aip.org /fyi/1995/fyi95.091.htm   (415 words)

  
 WAW Moll Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
All science begins with astonishment (PLATO), but the human behind the instrument is much more important than the instrument itself.
To day,given once a decade by the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences [REF:56], a prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to the study of microbiology.
Modern science was to a large degree established in the seventeenth century, and Huygens was one of the persons who brought this about.
www.euronet.nl /users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html   (11570 words)

  
 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution home page
Considered as one of the leading philosphers of science.
Richard MacCormac, Architect, Former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Fellow of the Royal Academy, Architect of the New Addition of the Science Museum.
The Institution was founded in 1824 with the aim of furthering "the advancement of literature, science and art".
www.brlsi.org   (378 words)

  
 David S. Armstrong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CERN Courier article written by Kandice Carter (JLab Science writer) and myself on strangeness in the nucleon.
PhysOrg.com article on Sarah Phillips and Quantum Diaries (reprint of the W and M News feature).
Science news article in which I am quoted at the end.
physics.wm.edu /~armd   (219 words)

  
 Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov /multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1852   (282 words)

  
 Science -- 302 (5653): 2040
Science's editors prognosticate about which research and policy areas are in for big changes next year.
Three craft are expected to touch down around the turn of the year: The European Space Agency's lander Beagle 2 on Isidis Planitia and NASA's rovers Spirit in Gusev crater and Opportunity on Meridiani Planum.
The oohs and ahs will come shortly after touchdown with panoramic views of new martian landscapes, but the science will dribble out during the 90-day missions and long after.
cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn /news/report/2003/breakthrough2003/Science/Watch2004.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Penn Engineering - About the School
The School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1852, has a distinguished reputation for the quality of its programs.
Penn Engineering provides an extraordinary and broad group of professional masters programs' that extend the bounds of traditional education in their flexibility and adaptability to student goals.
Our campus is growing with the addition of the new Levine Hall for Computer Science and the proposed Skirkanich Hall for bioengineering.
www.seas.upenn.edu /history/index.html   (444 words)

  
 Hunt, Mary Hannah Hanchett
She taught school for a year before attending the Amenia Seminary, Amenia, New York, and then the Patapsco Female Institute near Baltimore, Maryland.
After graduating from the latter, she remained for a time as a science teacher and collaborated with Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, principal of the school, on a series of science textbooks.
In 1852, after a year as a governess on a Virginia plantation, she married Leander B. Hunt, with whom she settled in Massachusetts.
www.britannica.com /women/articles/Hunt_Mary_Hannah_Hanchett.html   (484 words)

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