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	1888 - Lord Kelvin
		Scotland made a considerable contribution to modern science.
		This drawing and instruction note is dated June 1888 and shows part of the process of designing and building a 50,000-volt electrometer.
		It is from a long correspondence, 1879-1907, with his Glasgow instrument-makers, the firm of Kelvin and James White, Ltd.
	www.nls.uk /scotlandspages/timeline/1888.html (171 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Guglielmo Marconi
		Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather wealthy Italian father and Irish mother.
		The article suggested the possibility of using radio waves to communicate without wires.The year was 1894, and the most modern way to send a message was over telegraph wires.
		In 1909 he won the Nobel Prize in physics, shared with Karl Ferdinand Braun whose modifications to Marconi's transmitters significantly increased their range and usefulness.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btmarc.html (285 words)

	1888 in science - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		1888 in science - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The year 1888 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
		January 3 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is first used.
	www.music.us /education/1/1888-in-science.htm (373 words)

	Science/AAAS \| Science Magazine: Previous Issues
		Science, January 1997 to present -- abstracts/summaries, full-text HTML, and full-text PDF.
		Science Classic, July 1880 to December 1996 -- full-text PDF access to all issues of Science before December 1996 (separate institutional subscription may apply).
		How to access: The full text of Science issues since January 1997 is available online to AAAS members, to users at subscribing institutions, and on a pay-per-article basis.
	www.sciencemag.org /archive (1641 words)

	Science Audio Books, Podcasts, and Videos
		Science Friday, as heard on NPR, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow.
		We strip down science and lay the facts bare answering your science questions, interviewing top scientists and catching up with the latest top science news stories.
		On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...
	www.learnoutloud.com /Catalog/Science (0 words)

	WER: History of the University of Wisconsin-Chapter 10
		It was in 1888, also, that the new Science Hall, the Chemical Building and the Machine Shops were opened--an event of marked importance in the history of the University.
		The college of letters and science shall embrace liberal courses of instruction in language, literature, philosophy and science, and may embrace such other branches as the regents of the university shall prescribe.
		The college of agriculture shall embrace instruction and experimentation in the science of agriculture and in those sciences which are tributary thereto, and may embrace such additional branches as the board of regents shall determine.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/Thwaites/Chapter10.html (3223 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 1888 in science (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a young man Sillanpää studied natural science at Helsinki and came under the influence of an artistic circle that included the composer Sibelius.
		He was a minister of the Free Church and from 1877 a lecturer on science in Free Church College, Glasgow.
		Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker, working assiduously to remove all vestiges of Victorian social, moral, and religious attitudes from 20th-century life.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=1888+in+science (876 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Turning a Modern Eye Toward an Old Investigation
		Science as a whole was advancing as new discoveries were made and the police were only beginning to realize that those advances could help them in their fight against crime.
		The science of fingerprinting will be discussed now, and again later, because the theories behind the science were known and being used in a limited fashion during the fall of 1888.
		Fingerprinting did not become widely accepted as a science until the 1890's and was not considered a positive method for identifying offenders until the New York State Prison at Sing Sing established their fingerprint division in 1903.
	www.casebook.org /dissertations/dst-cozart.html?printer=true (6130 words)

	Science - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
		Biographic studies of 24 married couples in the sciences, including Marie and Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric, and others.
		Historical overview of women in science, with biographies of 50 female scientists.
		Development of science and scientific method from ancient times to 1600; includes biographical sketches.
	encarta.msn.com /readings_761557105/Science.html (482 words)

	'Poetry vs. Science': Positions
		The real sufferers were those whose instinct led them to the natural sciences and to nothing else, who were born observers, and went straight to the details of out-door knowledge as a bee goes to a flower.
		"Science is probably unfavourable to the growth of literature because it does not throw man back upon himself and concentrate him as the old belief did; it takes him away from himself, away from human relations and emotions, and leads him on and on.
		Science concerns itself with the telephone and the electric light; art does not concern itself with the telephone and the electric light; therefore, art and science are incompatible."
	www.mith.umd.edu /courses/amvirtual/science/80.html (1736 words)

	A Lost Chapter in Science (Vaccinations group)
		Science, dimly perceiving the truth, may find Bacteria and other infinitesimals in the human body, and see in them but occasional and abnormal visitors to which diseases are attributed.
		That equally monstrous, ridiculous, and disastrous delusions have existed in science, and especially in medicine, such as the bleeding craze which caused the death of George Washington and untold thousands of lesser persons, can be denied by no man of medicine, though discreetly passed over by him.
		The Theosophist, to whom so many of the methods of modern science originated or sponsored by Pasteur are fallacious, dangerous, or abhorrent, has, however, special reason to examine this god for clay feet.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ImmunizationAndVaccinations/ALostChapterInScience.html (895 words)

	Introduction to Science Fiction in Academe Issue
		The courses were seen by the reporters and their readers as making a kind of breakthrough, as breeching the walls of the literary establishment so that worthwhile books different from those students had been restricted to could be studied.
		Sam Moskowitz of course deserves the credit for teaching the first college-level course in science fiction, but it should be noted that this was an extension course carrying no credit toward a degree and with the primary purpose of introducing students to the world of science-fiction professionals.
		We are grateful to all those who submitted course descriptions and/or essays on the teaching of science fiction, utopian literature, and fantasy, with special thanks to those who assisted in the gathering of the course descriptions.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/70/intro70.htm (1788 words)

	ipedia.com: 1888 Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors.
		1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).
		November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
	www.ipedia.com /1888.html (753 words)

	CSEC -- The Christian Science Standard 9-2
		Science and Health states, “This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word.
		In Christian Science chemicalization means a changing of base on the part of the individual from the material to the spiritual.
		It was mistakenly said in higher circles in the Christian Science Movement that this new teaching at the turn of the century was in advance of Mrs.
	www.endtime.org /standard/vol9no2.html (6454 words)

	Faith, Science, and Technology
		Both science and faith cannot help but be viewed through the lenses of culture; and our contemporary culture offers multiple lenses for the looking.
		Religion is the antithesis of science; science is competent to illuminate all the deep questions of existence, and does so in a manner that makes full use of, and respects the human intellect.
		Science attends to objective knowledge about objects in the penultimate realm, whereas religion attends to subjective knowledge about transcendent dimensions of ultimate concern.
	www.elca.org /faithandscience/covalence/story/content/06-06-15-peters-1.asp?ArticlePrefix=content/06-06-15-peters&Pages=1 (4536 words)

	Lehmann, Inge (1888-1993): World of Earth Science
		Lehmann continued her research well after her retirement in 1953, exploring the nature of the planet's interior in Denmark, in Canada at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa and in the United States at the University of California at Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
		She was a named a fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Edinburgh and was named to the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters and the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft.
		In 1971, she was awarded the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and unselfish cooperation in research." She was also awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Copenhagen and Columbia University.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/lehmann-inge (657 words)

	Divine Science History - learn about the history of Divine Science and New Thought
		In contrast to Religious Science which draws heavily on the teachings of Christ but does not call itself a Christian denomination, Divine Science, like Unity, is a Christian denomination that teaches practical, reasonable living based on the omnipresence of God.
		Divine Science is a love based teaching based on the premise that God is Spirit, omnipresent, the one and only Spirit behind, in, and through all things, visible and invisible.
		The Brooks sisters were enthusiastically greeted by the laity of Denver but the hierarchy of their local church became concerned with this demonstration of the power of Divine Healing and thus rejected the sisters despite the evidence.
	www.divineunity.net /beliefs/ds_history.htm (1599 words)

	forensic.e-symposium.com - Forensic Science Society Information Centre
		Forensic science is simply the application of science to the law.
		In criminal cases forensic scientists are often involved in the search for and examination of physical traces which might be useful for establishing or excluding an association between someone suspected of committing a crime and the scene of the crime or victim.
		On-the-job training tends to be best catered for by suppliers of forensic science services to police and other law enforcement agencies as it is in these organisations that there is the breadth and depth of casework to provide the necessary experience.
	www.forensic.e-symposium.com /fsscareers.html (808 words)

	Science -- Kerr 283 (5409): 1826
		For decades researchers have debated whether the mantle is more like a giant layer cake, neatly divided at a depth of 660 kilometers into two layers that never mix, or a boiling pot of water, churning from top to bottom over the eons.
		On page 1888, seismologists Satoshi Kaneshima of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and George Helffrich of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom offer another hint of a deep boundary.
		They present seismic evidence of a thin, chemically distinct slice of rock between 1400 and 1600 kilometers down that could be a very old crustal slab come to rest on the top of the lowermost mantle layer.
	equake.geol.vt.edu /acourses/3114/00Daily_maps/S990319-DeepEarth.html (966 words)

	Founders of Divine Science (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her spiritual experience not only changed her mind and body, it transformed her into a dynamo of energy who began a healing ministry as well as informal classes to teach these new spiritual insights to friends and acquaintances.
		She established the Home College of Divine Science in 1888 with Primary, Theological and Normal courses she herself wrote, and taught.
		She was the founder and guiding force behind the International Divine Science Assoc., the precursor of the International New Thought Alliance.
	www.dsschool.org /founders (688 words)

	Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Nietzsche's final active year, 1888, saw the completion of The Case of Wagner (May-August 1888), Twilight of the Idols (August-September 1888), The Antichrist (September 1888), Ecce Homo (October-November 1888) and Nietzsche Contra Wagner (December 1888).
		The doctrine also functions as a measure for judging someone's overall psychological strength and mental health, since Nietzsche believed that the doctrine of eternal recurrence was the hardest world-view to accept and affirm.
		The work is a brilliant display of Nietzsche's talents as a music critic, and includes memorable mockings of Wagner's theatrical style, reflections on redemption via art, a "physiology of art," and the virtues associated, respectively, with ascending and descending life energies.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche (4700 words)

	Multiverse by Reed Carson -BlavatskyNet
		Science and Theosophy also differ on the cause and the process of the origination of these universes, and that difference should not be minimized in a desire to find congruence between these two viewpoints.
		Science says the cause of the universe is a random quantum fluctuation.
		Biologists are now searching for their homogeneous protoplasm and chemists for their protyle, while science is looking for the force of which electricity, magnetism, heat, and so forth, are the differentiations.
	www.blavatsky.net /science/other/multiverse.htm (2261 words)

	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI): Research
		This new laboratory would be governed by scientists, and its focus would be basic research and education with economic interests having a much lower priority.
		The Woods Hole Research Center was founded in 1975 by Dr. George M. Woodwell to address the great issues of environment through scientific research and education and through applications of science in public affairs.
		Climate change and the warming of the earth are at the core of the Center's Science Program, and the Center specializes in global forests because of their controlling influence on climate.
	www.whoi.edu /science/woodshole_research.html (1394 words)

	Amazon.de: The Founding of Christian Science: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy 1888-1900 (The Womanhood of God Series Vol. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is definitely aimed at the student of Christian Science and reveals tremendous insights into the experiences and lessons which Mrs.
		While many from within and without the Christian Science movement will disagree with both Grekel's approach and her credentials, few readers will deny that this book is nothing short of a loving "Ode" to Mrs.
		A reader is encouraged to read the primary sources on Christian Science, the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Manual of the Mother Church.
	www.amazon.de /Founding-Christian-Science-1888-1900-Womanhood/dp/1893107248 (1175 words)

	Divine Science
		Divine Science is called a science because it can be learned and applied in our lives with sure results that can be duplicated by anyone who is willing to apply these laws.
		Although she had already been teaching for some years, she officially founded the Divine Science Home School on May 4, 1888, later organizing the International Divine Science Association on May 17, 1892 which was the forerunner of today's International New Thought Alliance.
		The moment that a practitioner, minister or member embarks upon the path of prayer without taking into account the highest good of all beings is the moment that this person, regardless of his or her spiritual path has deviated into sorcery.
	divinescience.com /bio_malindaCramer.htm (841 words)

	Deity, Cosmos and Man by Geoffrey Farthing
		Yet Esoteric Science has a significant contribution to make both to the natural sciences and to the domain of psychology, as well as to metaphysics in such questions as the nature of matter, time, space and causation.
		Esoteric Science affirms the existence of invisible and subjective realms of being that are not yet within the purview of today's sciences.
		This is the science underlying the affirmation that runs through the sacred literature of India, "THAT art thou", the recognition that man in his essential nature is identical with the One Life.
	www.theosophical.ca /DeityCosmosMan-Book2.htm (15515 words)

	Science Fiction
		For example, if we require that "science fiction" be in some sense fiction about modern science and technology (which seems a reasonable demand), then the genre could not have begun until the late18th century.
		And the first bonafide science fiction classic is probably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)--a gothic tale of technoscientific aspiration, hubris, and retribution that continues to gain fans not only in Hollywood (five different productions in the 1990s!) but among contemporary SF readers as well.
		Although the label "science fiction" was never actually applied to literary products until the 1920s (when it was used, as Vonnegut implies, to identify exotic tales of imagination and adventure published in juvenile-oriented pulp magazines), the genre can easily be expanded to include some of the oldest and most distinguished works of world literature.
	condor.depaul.edu /~dsimpson/awtech/scifi.htm (1096 words)

	Divine Science
		Divine Science is the convergence of the "laws of science, the opinions of philosophy, and the revelations of religion applied to the needs and the aspirations of humankind." E.Holmes
		Divine Science is as old as humanity and certainly as old as New Thought itself.
		Featured on the left and in the flash are leaders of a 19th Century Movement which also used the name "Divine Science".
	divinescience.com (229 words)

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