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  • A scientific revolution occurs, according to Kuhn, when scientists ... in Kuhn's terminology, a scientific revolution or a paradigm shift ...
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  • of science and what is taken to be the scientific method. As such, the position ... investigation that is not reducible to scientific method (Abbagnano, "Positivism ...
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  • progress but a radical change (see Scientific Revolution) of incommensurable ... *Scientific revolution *Thomas Kuhn *Wittgenstein ==Notes== ...
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  • that contributed to the Industrial Revolution. which explains the continuity of scientific history. The Museum also ...
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  • religious beliefs were compatible with scientific truth. In 1880, Fiske began ... child, and his studies of current scientific theories led him to doubt ...
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  • Condorcet took a leading role when the French Revolution swept France ... shows the intimate connection between scientific progress and the development ...
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  • fiction writer, and revolutionary whose scientific interests ranged from the ... Social Democratic Labor Party. After the revolution, he and Lenin quarreled ...
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  • as opposed to a single "Scientific Revolution" in the late ... produced only in the aftermath of a scientific revolution. They are the bases ...
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  • 039;s work evidenced this combination of scientific and religious inquiry. ... Stukeley's legacy includes both the scientific and the religious ...
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  • "positive" stage, dominated by scientific thought. He was the first ... through a somewhat mystical form of scientific sociology has not come ...
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  • It inspired research in a wide range of scientific fields, from chemistry ... invention caused a small sensation in scientific circles. ...
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  • suppply. In the midst of the French revolution, he retired from the Corps ... == Scientific accomplishments == Coulomb is distinguished in the history ...
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  • of the modern period. With the rise of the Scientific Revolution, some philosophers thought that by imitating the methodical nature of the natural sciences ...
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  • in International Politics, introducing scientific methodology to the field ... Politics, a seminal work in the scientific study of international ...
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  • apparent changes in the periods of the revolution of Jupiter's moon ... regular variations in the times of their revolution, which should have been ...
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  • economics became established as a scientific discipline. Marshall attempted ... economics and transform it into a more scientific profession. In the 1870s ...
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  • and curiosity which are the key to scientific discovery and technological ... plants, insects, minerals, stones, and scientific and technological innovations ...
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  • who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. Hooked coined the term "cell ...
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  • that class struggles could lead to revolution, he disagreed with Karl ... the United States was founded through revolution and struggle for independence ...
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  • Anaxagoras brought Ionian philosophy to Athens and gave scientific ... Anaxagoras brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry ...
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  • Benedictine monk, but joined the French Revolution instead. ... the order. The rumblings of the French Revolution caused him to give this ...
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  • was largely a product of the Industrial Revolution. In many cultures, the ... of tradition, and also demonstrated that scientific and technological progress ...
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  • once procured for Poisson an entry into scientific circles. ... of the first republic. Throughout the Revolution, the Empire, and the following ...
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  • Copernicus' concept marked a scientific revolution. It has been equated ... considered the start of "the scientific revolution."David Banach ...
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  • contributed to the coming of the scientific revolution. ... contributed to the coming of the scientific revolution. Moreover, even as ...
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  • In society, this means that only violent revolution can bring about the shift ... After the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the proper interpretation ...
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  • (1776). He also supported the French Revolution, and was criticized by ... which he later used as the basis for a scientific system for life insurance ...
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  • and e-commerce, bringing about a revolution in our ability to access ... * The enabling of new types of scientific research, such as computational ...
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  • eventually left him isolated within the scientific community. He also discovered ... Medal and brought much attention to his scientific work. ...
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  • or quasi-logical method in science and scientific discovery to what came ... would actually have prevented scientific revolution. ===Consistency ...
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  • to bring classical economics closer to scientific principles. ... Senior attempted to make economics more scientific and more practical. He ...
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  • archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of ... In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers ...
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  • Society, where he heard lectures on scientific subjects, of which chemistry ... Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution. New York: Random ...
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  • ===Before the Scientific Revolution=== From the classical period through the scientific revolution, astrological ...
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  • Great Leap Forward. During the Cultural Revolution Mao branded him as a “revisionist” ... possessing the great gifts and profound scientific knowledge of the founders ...
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  • who contributed toward the Keynesian revolution. She was also among the ... as (1) an attempt to produce objective scientific knowledge of a business ...
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  • The production of new tools surged during the Industrial Revolution ... * Industrial Revolution * Lever * Machine * Mechanical work ...
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  • is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." He was ... (1987), 250. coined the term scientific management in the course ...
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  • The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...
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  • of upheavals of 1848. It was a time of revolution. Individual nations oppressed ... problems brought on by the Industrial Revolution, and increasing hunger ...
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  • , scientific transliteration Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja) ( ... from the early days. After the October Revolution, she was appointed deputy ...
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  • much of the impetus for the Industrial Revolution. His invention brought ... and also able to perform systematic scientific measurements that could ...
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  • armed revolt to bring about a Communist revolution in Germany, but the revolt ... Germany and took part in an unsuccessful revolution in Berlin in January 1919 ...
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  • himself as a leading figure in the scientific revolution. Although his research ... by the same Author. He regarded the scientific study of nature as a religious ...
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  • individualism, democracy, humanism, and scientific methods. Many of those ... *Oct 1910 to Sep 1915: Planned the 1911 Revolution. *Sep 1915 to Apr ...
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  • with the conflict between religion and scientific positivism. In 1872 he ... and the Finances of the American Revolution (1891). He became an ardent ...
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  • War (1648) and ended with the French Revolution (1789). ... what historians call the "scientific revolution." This scientific ...
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  • Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian ... the institution. He envisioned it as a scientific research institute, carrying ...
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  • In his scientific work he defended Slavs, who were downtrodden and ... his poetry, Šafárik did through his scientific work; both aimed at the ...
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  • around the world for both everyday and scientific purposes. ... (such as microsecond) are used in scientific work, but the traditional ...
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  • only in controlled experiments with scientific techniques of observation. in a metaphysical way, but by applying scientific techniques similar to those ...
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  • Recently, however, the scientific consensus has been changing toward ... beliefs, it is also "stated in scientific method with surprising ...
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  • Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ... about nature, hard to come up with a scientific theory that predicts measurements ...
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  • also cited as factors, as is the scientific revolution of the seventeenth ... created in the wake of the Scientific revolution of the 17th century. ...
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  • well as in Mughal India prior to the Industrial Revolution. ... Proto-industrialization, the Industrial Revolution which transformed the agricultural ...
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  • Haeckel embraced evolution not only as a scientific theory, but as ... of roles, as both artist and naturalist, scientific specialist and popularizer ...
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  • Socialist Republics (USSR). The Russian Revolution brought to power the first ... in urban areas were fertile ground for revolution. Under these adverse ...
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  • After the July revolution of 1830, Enfantin resigned his office of ... Lyon, and in 1841 was appointed to a scientific commission on Algeria, ...
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  • materialism; primary role of workers for revolution; the special role of communist ... interpretation of Marxism: Marxism as scientific theory in the sense that ...
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  • provided a necessary common base for the scientific, technical, and industrial ... adopted in France after the French Revolution. During the history of ...
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  • Along these lines, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... years, but before the industrial revolution finally made cheap paper ...
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  • as did Russia, with the prelude to the Revolution of 1917. After the revolution ... After the October Revolution in 1917, the school began opening admission ...
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  • advance the so-called "marginal revolution." Working in complete ... continued to write occasional papers on scientific subjects, and his intimate ...
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  • credit, compared with men, for their scientific work than an objective ... In 1868, she wrote a letter to The Revolution (a women's rights ...
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  • an American engineer, early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer ... Gilbreths started the Summer School of Scientific Management, where they ...
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  • However Yi Ik did not get lost in his scientific researches. He was ... ideas. He was ready to recognize scientific Western ideas if they proved ...
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  • he was beheaded at the height of the French Revolution. ... of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, at the age of ...
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  • as well as various materialistic and scientific essays. The future poet ... Symbolists fled Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Bryusov remained ...
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  • explain some of the causes of the scientific revolution, and the Mertonian ... and mechanical philosophy in the scientific revolution, and for the arbitrary ...
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  • System," was the first modern scientific book on rat behavior. It ... part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent ...
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  • also condemned these ideas for lack of scientific proof of his theory. His ... Bonaparte, the ruling emperor, and the scientific establishment, led by the ...
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  • Ampere's father was executed during the French Revolution, creating ... in 1809. He continued to pursue his scientific research and his diverse ...
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  • insight. He fled to Japan during the Revolution of 1911, returned to China ... When the Xinhai Revolution took place in 1911, he fled to Japan with ...
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  • Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World, ed. Philip Clayton ... Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World, ed. Philip Clayton ...
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  • taking place in the arts. However, the revolution would soon turn into a ... miniatures, plays, poems, and pseudo-scientific, philosophical investigations ...
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  • With the air of scientific respectability, Kinsey's publications ... York, introducing the gall wasp to the scientific community and laying out ...
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  • a chapter in his book The Law of Social Revolution entitled "The Russian ... fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford ...
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  • 1789, the event that launched the French revolution. As a result, Cauchy's ... Cauchy and some members of the French scientific community. ...
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  • overtook his earlier priority on scientific studies. Some critics have ... Elevated as abbot in 1868, his scientific work largely ended as Mendel ...
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  • Laplace took an interest in the affairs of the French Revolution. ... as one of the masterpieces of French scientific literature. ...
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  • understood the achievements of the scientific revolution to show that every ... understanding of nature, in both his scientific works on mechanics and ...
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  • industrialized and companies sought out scientific approaches to management ... *Chandler, Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in ...
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  • forecast a number of technological and scientific developments, including ... Wells called his early novels, "scientific romances," inventing ...
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  • at a 1:1 ratio (that is, one complete revolution of the handle equals one ... the Black Bass: Comprising Its Complete Scientific and Life History, Together ...
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  • that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. The settlement movement ... modern (nineteenth century) and scientific origin.Dan Huff, Progress ...
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  • out of existence with the assistance of scientific identification. ... The first scientific criminologist Cesare Lombroso working in the ...
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  • and helped foment the American Revolution through his powerful writings ... active participant in both the American Revolution and the French Revolution ...
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  • whether there was indeed a "Revolution" leading to modern ... 1993. “Modern humans in the Levant.” Scientific American (April 1993): 94-100. ...
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  • Wilhelm Öchsli published in 1891 a scientific account of the founding ... against tyranny with the history of the French revolution. ...
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  • Bible marks the beginning of a cultural revolution unlike any that followed ... was a major catalyst for the later scientific revolution. The ability to produce ...
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  • (later subsumed into the Office of Scientific Research and Development ... informally advise the government on scientific matters. In 1939, he fully ...
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  • Fourier lived through the events of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic ... him as a “near illiterate” and a “scientific pariah.” His contemporaries ...
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  • essayist who is best known for leading the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation' has defined the way science ...
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  • in their quest for truth through the scientific method. This willingness ... and Death of Meaning (1962) and The Revolution in Psychiatry (1964), which ...
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  • history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism, and ... ability of the proletariat to produce a revolution as Marx had predicted. ...
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  • from economic domination, a social revolution was needed. The envisioned ... of capitalism through a workers' revolution that would lead to a utopian ...
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  • while simultaneously being the scientific genius known to history ... inductive science and herald of the scientific revolution. ...
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  • effective education. Three of them were scientific personnel at the Chinese ... monarchy. While Sun Yat-Sen promoted revolution, Liang preached reform. ...
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  • Before the Industrial Revolution, the range of color available for ... The Industrial and Scientific Revolutions brought a huge expansion ...
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  • The scientific definition of a machine is any device that transmits ... The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes ...
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