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  all things William
The history of science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interest on the other.
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for may be enveloped in a wider order.
Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Science Fiction
Science fiction would not exist in its present form without the social changes that took place at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century.
Science fiction also began to be published in the new mass-market paperback form and in hardcover, first from small presses devoted to science fiction and then by major publishers.
While science fiction is first and foremost a literary genre, the concepts and themes that it has set forth have also been adapted for use in radio and television shows, motion pictures, and other forms of mass media.
encarta.msn.com /text_761563123__1/Science_Fiction.html   (4051 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Science Fiction
Science and technology began appearing as a subject of fiction in the 19th century.
Wells began to write stories with science themes in 1894, demonstrating more interest in biology and evolution than in other sciences, and more concern about the social consequences of invention than about the accuracy of the invention itself.
Most early science fiction was published in magazines and aimed at a readership of boys and young men.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563123_2/Science_Fiction.html   (885 words)

  
 Mimosa 19, pages 29-31. "Those Wonderful Turbulent Thirties" by Dave Kyle
Science fiction has, however, survived, soaring to greater heights in the Golden Age as the Grand Masters began appearing on the scene.
In retrospect, it is so very difficult for me to comprehend that the giant in the science fiction magazine field, the one who recognized the unique niche and created scientifiction (scientific fiction) and science fiction with its fandom, Hugo Gernsback, rose and fell within one decade from 1926 to 1936.
We science fiction readers had the promise from our genre of a continuing search for the truth as it would be in the future.
www.jophan.org /mimosa/m19/kyle.htm   (1945 words)

  
 Timebase Multimedia Chronography(TM) - Timebase 1929
1929 January 20 The Soviet OGPU (General Political Administration) orders that Trotsky be deported to the Turkish island of Prinkipo, once used by the Byzantine emperors to exile their opponents.
1929 February 11 The Lateran Treaty is signed by Benito Mussolin for the Italian government and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri for the papacy.
Although it is well known that thousands of stockholders were forced to sell their stock, it is usually not questioned as to who actually bought-up all of the stock being sold at bargain prices.
www.humanitas-international.org /showcase/chronography/timebase/1929tbse.htm   (1184 words)

  
 2004 in science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The year 2004 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
December 27 - A flare of radiation from an explosion on the super-magnetic neutron star (Magnetar) SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth - astronomers later calculate that it is the largest explosion observed in the Milky Way galaxy for 400 years.
July 30 - Marine biologists from the announce in the journal Science the discovery of the genus Osedax, deep sea worms that feed on lipids in decaying whale carcusses.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2004_in_science   (1100 words)

  
 Apologetics Press - What Is Science?
Science, therefore, is an attempt to gather and explain the facts about the Universe in which we live.
Margaret Balcom has noted that science is “primarily a method for dealing with matter (objects) in action through (1) observation and experimentation, (2) analysis, (3) derivation of a physical law (a concept), (4) prediction in terms of that law.
For natural science, history, psychology, ethics, philosophy, or religion to affirm that there is only one mode of cognition, and that way its own, is to betray a fatuous pride which convicts of lack of real culture in the court of high reason (1929, pp.
www.apologeticspress.org /modules.php?name=Read&cat=4&itemid=1993   (1627 words)

  
 Timeline: From the December 28, 1929, issue, Science News Online, Jan. 1, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The youthful scientist, symbolic of science itself and its aspirations, was a member of the Field Museum-Williamson Undersea Expedition to the Bahama Islands, which brought back tons of corals collected after cruising many miles under the sea.
In the air, under sea, and on the surface of the earth, man's searchings into the mysteries of the universe have progressed during 1929.
Chemistry: The Nobel prize in chemistry for 1929 was awarded to Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Prof.
www.sciencenews.org /articles/20000101/timeline.asp   (683 words)

  
 Secondary Sources for Philosophy of Science
Science and the instrument-maker : Michelson, Sperry, and the speed of light / Thomas Parke Hughes.
Science for all : studies in the history of Victorian science and education / William H. Brock.
Science and the founding fathers : science in the political thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison / I. Bernard Cohen.
www.kzoo.edu /phil/wolf/science/209sources.html   (3265 words)

  
 history sf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The evident irony of science fiction's claim that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, published in 1818, is the first example of a "science fiction" text (Aldiss 25) cannot be denied.
Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture.
Gernsback's ideas regarding the nature of science do not really consider the impact of the prose, for as William Bainbridge clearly establishes, Gernsback's preoccupation was the "scientific authenticity and the romance of technological progress" (54).
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html   (7197 words)

  
 Science Quotes
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.  ~Henri Poincaré
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.  ~Walter Lippmann
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.  ~Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
www.quotegarden.com /science.html   (2034 words)

  
 Women and SF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hard science fiction is often concerned with traditional sciences, in addition to technology and the hardware of the future.
According the research by William Bainbridge, when Astounding Science Fiction polled its readership in 1949, only 6.7 percent were female, compared to an unpublished 1978 poll of Galileo readers that found 26 percent were women (177).
At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation.
www.twd.net /ird/forecast/browning.html   (9530 words)

  
 1929 in science -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The year 1929 in (A particular branch of scientific knowledge) science and (The practical application of science to commerce or industry) technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
(The science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions) Chemistry: (Click link for more info and facts about Arthur Harden) Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
September 15 - (United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929)) Murray Gell-Mann, (A scientist trained in physics) physicist, 1969 (Winner of a Nobel Prize) Nobel laureate in physics.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1929_in_science.htm   (1050 words)

  
 Apologetics Press - How Does Science Work?
The important distinction between science and those other systematizations (the arts, philosophy, and theology) is that science is self-testing and self-correcting.
Natural science deals with physical entities by abstraction, experiment, and mathematical measurement; while religion is an attitude of trust and love toward an infinite God, which results in a vital experience constituting the essence of religion.
Science is the “looking glass” given to man by God for the purpose of investigating and having dominion over His creation.
www.apologeticspress.org /articles/1995   (1610 words)

  
 Science Fair Resources
A collection of science experiments exploring common phenomena relating to matter, energy, and their properties.
Provides instructions for science experiments and projects in botany, physics, energy, and nature, using such everyday objects as kitchen utensils, sink, and bathtub.
Provides practical science experiments and projects designed to be completed at home with safe, everyday ingredients.
bms.westport.k12.ct.us /lmc/SciFair.htm   (1368 words)

  
 Hugo Gernsbacks's What is Science Fiction 1965   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
What I detest is the parading of pure fantasy stories as science fiction and their sale as such to gullible readers.
There are two essential reasons why science fiction today is at its lowest ebb and generally in such disrepute.
Those who do know science cannot extrapolate their ideas and plots into the future--they are not gifted with imagination to anticipate what is ahead in 10, 50, or 500 years.
www.twd.net /ird/forecast/1965sci-fi.html   (1141 words)

  
 Clausen, B. L. --- on Arthur S. Eddington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Eddington was a deeply religious man and it is hard to determine from his writings whether his scientific work or his religious experience was more important to him.
He believed that changes in scientific thought might remove some of the obstacles to a reconciliation of religion with science, but he was wholly opposed to basing religion on scientific discovery.
He believed that a personal relationship should dominate our conception of the unseen spiritual world, and that arguments for a deity were irrelevant to the assurance of a personal God for which humanity hungers.
www.grisda.org /bclausen/papers/co46.htm   (442 words)

  
 Timebinders - History of the Scienceers, the First New York City Science Fiction Club, 1929 - by Allen Glasser
Long before "science fiction" was called by that name, I had become devoted to it through the Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, which I read when I was only twelve.
During the early months of the Scienceers' existence -- from its start in December 1929 through the spring of 1930 -- our president was Warren Fitzgerald.
There, in a spacious room of their private house, which Mort used for his science-fiction library, The Scienceers came into full flower, attracting many new members through publicity placed in magazines and newspapers by myself, as Secretary of the club.
fanac.org /timebinders/scienceers.html   (1319 words)

  
 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner - Chaim Leib Pekeris
Pekeris received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1929 and a Doctor of Science degree in 1934 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Pekeris was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. in 1952 and to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1961.
He was also a foreign associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei.
www.ldeo.columbia.edu /vetlesen/recipients/1974/pekeris_bio.html   (690 words)

  
 Florence Museums History of Science
Along the bank of the Arno is the '300 Castellani palace, the name of which is after the last owners, which houses the Institute and the Museum of the History of Science since 1929.
On display are various scientific apparata representing the development of science from the Renaissance to the present times.
The Institute of the History of Science, housed in the same building of the museum, is an active intitution which carries out research in the field of the history of science.
www.inflorencetoday.com /museums/historyofscience.htm   (274 words)

  
 Wired 10.12: The New Convergence
The American Association for the Advancement of Science now sponsors a "Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion." Science luminaries who in the '70s shrugged at faith as gobbledygook — including E. Wilson and the late Stephen Jay Gould and Carl Sagan — have endorsed some form of reconciliation between science and religion.
Similarly in science, the pure materialistic view that reigned through the 20th century, holding that everything has a natural explanation, couldn't keep other viewpoints at bay forever.
As recently as the '70s, intellectuals assumed that hard science was on track to resolve the two Really Big Questions: why life exists and how the universe began.
wired.com /wired/archive/10.12/convergence.html   (938 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE [1929-]
The second Texas Academy of Science was organized on November 12, 1929.
It is an umbrella organization consisting of fourteen sections covering all of the sciences and mathematics; a Junior Academy for high school students; a Collegiate Academy for college and university students; and a Senior Academy for teachers and academic and professional scientists and mathematicians.
Ethel Ward-McLemore, "The Academies of Science of Texas, 1880-1987," Texas Journal of Science 41 (August 1989, suppl.).
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/TT/snt6.html   (331 words)

  
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Science experiments you can eat: 502.8 COB 1972.
Science in action : the Marshall Cavendi 507.2 1988.
Further explorations in science; a secon 507.2 [1963] 234.
www.eskimo.com /~billb/amateur/sciexp.txt   (1517 words)

  
 Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women: Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber (biography)@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Born in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929, Ursula Kroeber was the youngest child of psychologist, Theodora, and anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber.
As a child, she read myths, legends, and science fiction.
In college and graduate school she studied French and Italian literature.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28014757&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (192 words)

  
 Arlington National Cemetery:: Historical Information
He received a Bachelor of Science in Law from Northwestern, magna cum laude, at age 19 in 1929.
Goldberg began his legal career in 1929 as an associate in the firm of Kamfner, Horowitz, Halligan, and Daniels, but resigned when he was assigned to foreclose mortgages on other people's property.
He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to his wife and near his friend, Chief Justice Earl Warren.
www.arlingtoncemetery.org /text/arthur_goldberg_text.html   (914 words)

  
 Frank R. Paul Gallery
More often that not, it is the scale, the feeling of being completely overwhelmed by an enormous object or event that conveys the "sense of wonder" in science fiction.
According to Bleiler, the last is a short-short, with footage of the flying saucers carrying off the buildings appearing on a TV, greatly upsetting the viewers.
The cover was painted by Frank R. Paul, an artist whose skill at depicting scientifically advanced marvels set the style for the science fiction of the decade.
www.frankwu.com /Paul-8.html   (899 words)

  
 Dateline Moon Essays
That’s why we mark the true beginning of the sci-fi history of the moon at 1865, when, as a scientific revolution is sweeping the planet, Jules Verne publishes the classic De la terre a la lune, From the Earth to the Moon.
In the U.S., this believable blend of fiction and science is known only vaguely as "off-trail stories" or "different stories." But all that changes in 1908 when Hugo Gernsback, an immigrant Luxembourger to the United States, adds scientifically plausible fiction to his non-fiction Modern Electrics.
The first space issue is dated March 22, 1952, and features articles by experts von Braun, Whipple and Kaplan as well as science writer Willy Ley, space medical expert Heinz Haber, and United Nations lawyer Oscar Schachter.
www.newseum.org /datelinemoon/essays/magazine.htm   (949 words)

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