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  Museums Of Science - LoveToKnow 1911
Many of the national museums of continental Europe had their beginnings in collections privately acquired by monarchs, who, at a time when the modern sciences were in their infancy, entertained themselves by assembling objects which appealed to their love of the beautiful and the curious.
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, established in 1812, is the oldest society for the promotion of the natural sciences in the United States.
The Carnegie Institute is a complex of institutions, consisting of a museum of art, a museum of science, and a school for the education of youth in the elements of technology.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Museums_Of_Science   (4575 words)

  
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Political economy is even yet one of the youngest sciences, and it was still younger in the time of the classical economy, which, in spite of its name "classical," given, as the event proved, too soon, was only an incipient, embryonic science.
It has never happened in any other case that the whole of a science was discovered, at the first attempt, even by the greatest genius; and so it is not surprising that the whole of political economy was not discovered, even by the classical school.
Menger has put a logical implement into the hands of science in his conception, as simple as it is suggestive, of the subordination of goods (Guterordnungen),(20*) a conception which will be useful in all future investigation.
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bawerk/austrian   (5945 words)

  
 The Hotchkiss School - Academics - Departments - Science
The science department seeks to instill in students an excitement about the discipline, a solid body of knowledge and competency, and a sense of challenge and responsibility to use their science education positively and proactively throughout their lives.
We are committed as a department to underscoring the interaction between the sciences and the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences.
Throughout the science curriculum, we begin to further our students' commitment to environmental stewardship and to strengthen their understanding of their responsibilities in a global society.
www.hotchkiss.org /Academics/Depa_Science.asp   (240 words)

  
 The Christian Science University - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eddy wanted Science and Health to be in the public domain at the earliest possible time and she had made no provision for the 1906 copyright renewal, nor had she copyrighted the vital changes made in her last fourteen editions.
She wanted Science and Health to be given at once to the people, and expressed utter dismay at the prospect of any copyright legislation that would impede the greatest world-wide distribution of Science and Health, knowing that such legislation would do incalculable harm to the prosperity of her book.
She apparently believed strongly that the 418 editions of Science and Health should remain in the public domain, and that the 1906 should also be allowed to go into the public domain along with the 14 subsequent editions, having had 65 years of copyright protection.
ucsinc.org   (12117 words)

  
 MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE - Online Information article about MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Atlantis (1627) broadly sketched the outline of a great national museum of science and art.
object lessons the most important truths of science were capable of being pleasantly imparted to multitudes.
American universities, who are doing excellent work in the biological and allied sciences.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOS_NAN/MUSEUMS_OF_SCIENCE.html   (4725 words)

  
 Biography: James Chadwick 1891-1974, Nobel Prize in Physics
A. The moon does have a far side which is impossible to see from the earth, but it doesn't mean that it's always dark.
Chadwick was born in 1891 in Manchester, England.
During World War II, he worked with the British atomic bomb project, and was a science advisor to Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project.
www.light-science.com /chadwick.html   (629 words)

  
 Princeton Public Library - African American History - 1891 Deaths
Died suddenly on Jan. 11th, 1891, Judith Roberts at the advanced age of 85 years.
She was long known in Princeton as belonging to the very old family of Mr.
He was a faithful member of the A. church, a steward and class leader twenty-six years, was an earnest worker and a minister's friend; his place cannot be easily filled.
www.princeton.lib.nj.us /history/1891death.html   (1395 words)

  
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Her inherent breadth of view was evidenced by the fact that when in her girlhood she joined the Congregational Church, she refused to subscribe to the doctrine of unconditional elec tion or predestination.
Her aversion to the dissecting room prevented her from obtaining an expert knowledge of surgery and from completing her course, but her experiments in homeopathy were valuable in directing her attention to the proposi tion that all causation is mental.
Eddy arrived at the hall, she not only found a great assembly, which occupied every seat and every foot of standing-room, extending out even into the corridors, but she was also astounded to learn that she was announced as the only speaker.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc10/htm-old/0307=289.htm   (891 words)

  
 'Poetry vs. Science': Bibliography
Guyau, M.M. "Are Science and Art Antagonistic?" The Popular Science Monthly December, 1877: 357-65.
"Literature and Science." Prose of the Victorian Period, Ed.
"Science and Culture." Prose of the Victorian Period, Ed.
www.mith.umd.edu /courses/amvirtual/science/bib.html   (385 words)

  
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Abstract: The Tacoma Academy of Science was established in 1891 to promote science, literature, and art in Tacoma, WA.
Background: The Tacoma Academy of Science was established in Tacoma in 1891.
Fragmentary, mostly relating to library acquisitions, etc. One letter, 13 June 1898, is from G. Wharton James, offering for sale his collection of photographs and artifacts from Indian tribes of the Southwest.
www.wshs.org /wshs/research/finding_aids/mssc189.doc   (474 words)

  
 AAAS News and Notes -- 312 (5782): 1891 -- Science
Over the years, AAAS's Science and Human Rights program has pioneered a number of initiatives to develop and promote the use of scientific methods to advance human rights, including forensic sciences, statistics, and social science methods.
Last September, Rea was one of nine volunteers who entered seven middle schools and a high school in Montgomery County, Maryland, to help students with their science lessons, support teachers with a little extra information, and even build a few experiments.
Rea said the idea was to broaden science's appeal to the first generation of the 21st century.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/312/5782/1891   (1857 words)

  
 1891 in science (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
of ID, where did the title "ID is leading edge science" come from...
The year 1891 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
See also: 1890 in science, other events of 1891, 1892 in science and the list of years in science.
publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/1/18/1891_in_science.html   (139 words)

  
 A word on "unpublished" statements from Mary Baker Eddy or her students.
Certainly the answer would be no, if their accuracy is questionable, or if by doing so the By-Law in the Manual is broken that forbids the use of aught but the Bible and Mrs.
It must be true that she wished to remain as the standard teaching of Christian Science only that which she had a chance to revise until it was letter perfect.
She is clear on this in her published writings, and quite explicit in the "tip-in" sheet she put in the July, 1891, Christian Science Journal.
www.christianscience.org /UnpubStmts.htm   (678 words)

  
 Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images
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.
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov /multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1891   (351 words)

  
 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: From Magnetic Mines to DNA and Consciousness -- Orgel 313 (5795): 1891 -- Science
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: From Magnetic Mines to DNA and Consciousness -- Orgel 313 (5795): 1891 -- Science
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In this latest addition to the "Eminent Lives" series, the author offers nonspecialists a concise account of Crick's life and multi-disciplinary science.
www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/summary/313/5795/1891   (169 words)

  
 USC: USCMap: LeConte College
This science building is named for the LeConte brothers, John and Joseph, nineteenth-century faculty members who were among the most renowned scientists of their day.
A building on the campus of the University of California, where they later taught is also named for the two.
John LeConte (1818-1891) taught science and physics at Franklin College, moved to the chair of physics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1856 accepted the chair of physics at South Carolina College.
www.sc.edu /uscmap/bldg/leconte.html   (271 words)

  
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The Church of Christ, Scientist, later known as the " mother church," was organized by her in Boston in 1879.
She also founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, which received its charter in 1881, and in 1883 established the Christian Science Journal.
She has written Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures (the text-book of her system; many subsequent editions; Boston, 1875); Christian Healing (1886); People's Idea of God (1886); Unity of Good (1891); Rudimental Divine Science (1891); No and Yes (1891); Retrospection and.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc04/htm/0089=73.htm   (804 words)

  
 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University
Computer science is associated with the development and analysis of computer software, computer algorithms, and computing technologies.
Today, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science grants Bachelor of Science degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science, with either an electrical or computer concentration offered as part of the electrical engineering degree.
Faculty are actively involved in government- and industry-sponsored research through the Avionics Engineering Center — the only facility of its kind in the U.S. — and the Center for Intelligent, Distributed and Dependable Systems.
www.ohio.edu /eecs   (245 words)

  
 CSDirectory.com - Read Science and Health in a Year Discussion Group
We've now completed Science and Health and are about to begin reading and discussion PROSE WORKS by Mary Baker Eddy.
Started on May 30th, 2005, the Read Science and Health group completed reading and discussing Science and Health on October 25, 2006.
You don't have to be a member of the Christian Science church to join, just have a desire to learn more and talk about the Science and Health and Christian Science.
csdirectory.com /community/readscienceandhealth.html   (636 words)

  
 Telltale Weekly: Wells, HG Audiobook Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc..
"Science is a match that man has just got alight." An important early essay on science and philosophy, offering insight into the unfettered mind that would a few years later belong to "The Father of Science Fiction." Read by Alex Wilson.
As James Patrick Kelly writes in this month's (September 2004 issue) Asimov's Science Fiction, "What makes this the first science fiction time travel story is that the Time Traveler actually builds his machine." Previous fictitious time travelers (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) didn't have a choice in the matter.
www.telltaleweekly.org /audiobooks/author/wells_hg   (637 words)

  
 A partial bibliography of works by Baldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"The Psychology Laboratory at the University of Toronto." Science, 19, (1892): 143-144.
"Heredity and Instinct (II)." Science, NS III, (1896): 558-561.
Fragments in philosophy and science: being collected essays and addresses.
spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Baldwin/Baldwin_bibliography.html   (431 words)

  
 A Motif within SET-Domain Proteins Binds Single-Stranded Nucleic Acids and Transcribed and Supercoiled DNAs and Can ...
Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,
Mailing address for Wadyslaw A. Krajewski: Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Str.
Mailing address for Eli Canaani: Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
mcb.asm.org /cgi/content/abstract/25/5/1891   (379 words)

  
 Who are the Nephilim? (Part 1)
A number of modern-day UFOlogists believe the Bible is an ancient record of alien visitations misinterpreted as the work of God or gods.
"It is not clear to me how we can demythologize the Biblical material in the name of science when in fact modern science seems quite convinced that in all probability there are in the universe many advanced civilizations involved in space travel.
Downing has applied Altizer’s “death of God” thesis to his belief that the biblical writers are really describing UFO phenomena.
www.americanvision.org /articlearchive/08-01-05.asp?vPrint=1   (550 words)

  
 SDNHM Biography: Charles Russell Orcutt
Some of the journals published were done so simultaneously, for example, California Tress and Flowers (1891) and Science and Horticulture (1891).
Once Orcutt stopped contributing to the journal it was reduced to a mere advertising sheet.
The most complete sets of the West American Scientist in existence today are located at the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco), the Huntington Library (Huntington) and San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library.
www.sdnhm.org /history/orcutt/publications.html   (623 words)

  
 USC College: Faculty: Department of Political Science: Howard Gillman
His most recent book is The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
He is also co-editor and contributor to two other books on the Supreme Court: Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (University Press of Kansas, 1999).
He has published numerous articles in journals such as The American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Studies in American Political Development.
www.usc.edu /schools/college/faculty/faculty1003279.html   (1129 words)

  
 Mary Baker Eddy Institute | What To Read
Nixon, her publisher, dated June 24, 1891, in which she, in no uncertain terms, told of her disapproval of a scheme to have a committee select reading material for Christian Scientists:
The Christian Science Board of Directors [of the Mother church, Mrs.
Openly stated in the first edition of Science and Health, and hiddenly stated on every page of her final edition, is Mrs.
www.mbeinstitute.org /Wht2Rd.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Lateral Science - Ozone & Van Marum`s Electrostatic Generator
Action of fluorine gas on water (H. Moissan, 1891)
Ozone, chemically, is the triatomic, allotropic form of oxygen having the chemical symbol O
The exceedingly dangerous work of C.D. Harries appears to have been forgotten, according to this reference to the discovery of tetraoxygen in 2001- nature, offsite link
www.lateralscience.co.uk /marum   (1024 words)

  
 Physical and Chemical Properties -
The influence of the Ocean has an effect in the most remote corners of the Earth.
The lack of knowledge of the Ocean environment therefore, presents a real problem for modern science.
Click here for a larger picture (200 kb) and browse to Rocky Shores.
www.oceansatlas.org /id/1891   (492 words)

  
 Science.gov topic Natural Resources & Conservation for user category All categories
EnergyFiles: The Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology - Provides over 500 databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis on the physical sciences
Recreation site (USGS), your science gateway for safe and vital enjoyment of the outdoors - Gateway to useful USGS websites for recreation in nature watching and exploring, boating, camping, climbing, fishing, hiking,biking, and hunting, with links to maps, real-time streamflow, geology, photos, and plant and animal information
Science Information System (SIS) - Database of USGS Biological Resources' research projects
www.science.gov /browse/w_131.htm   (2089 words)

  
 A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891 by Engels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
The present draft differs very favourably from the former programme [at Gotha].The strong survivals of outmoded traditions — both the specific Lassallean and vulgar socialistic — have in the main been removed, and as regards its theoretical aspect the draft is, on the whole, based on present-day science and can be discussed on this basis.
Hence it has, at least at present, to include also such demands in its programme, which in other cultural countries have already been implemented by the bourgeoisie.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1891/06/29.htm   (3333 words)

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