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- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan, New York, U.S., is one of the largest and most well-known museums in the ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH or The Field Museum) is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It sits ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
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- referred to as the father of English natural history. He published important ... Professor of chemistry and natural history, Edward Hitchcock also ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- mostly catalogues or encyclopedias of natural history, but very few works ... During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, natural history was ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- at Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Chicago ... ichthyology at the Boston Society of Natural History; and from 1867 to 1869 ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- == History and Mission == the North American Wildlife Conference. History of the NWF. ...15 KB (2,010 words) - 04:19, 11 March 2023
- conditions. Quantification is used in both natural languages and formal languages ... == Quantification in natural language == The notion of quantification ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology. In Natural Theology ... Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul, probably the ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- Genetic drift—along with mutation, natural selection, and migration—is ... of alleles in a population, including natural selection, mutation, migration ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- A persistent critic of metaphysics and natural theology, Wright did not ... of evolution, and viewed the idea of natural selection as a unifying ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- "paradigm" in the contexts of history and philosophy of science ... In pre-Kuhnian philosophy of science, natural science was believed ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- continued Aristotle’s research into natural history, conducting numerous ... === Botany and Natural History === Theophrastus shared Aristotle’s ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- in the Harvard University museum of natural history that his father founded ... and he returned to his interests in natural history at Harvard. ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, and so on. Modern trends in ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- experimentation without recourse to super-natural or extra-natural reality ... supernatural (including entities like non-natural values, and universals) ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- at Oxford University Museum of Natural History color = pink ... on display at the Oxford Museum of Natural History. Analysis of genetic ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted ... deemed to be of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, from 1990 to ... nature on the part of people who often in history have dominated for immediate ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 13:27, 7 February 2023
- Bernardino Telesio (1509 – 1588) was an Italian philosopher and ... Telesio developed an empirical approach to natural philosophy, which he regarded ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- to its sweeping vistas and dramatic natural features that extend over ... of the most spectacular and undisturbed natural habitats found anywhere ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- their own philosophical frameworks. The natural sciences, which had been ... a priori truths that cannot be reduced to natural facts, while psychologism ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- child. The development of the system of natural and logical consequences ... ===Logical and natural consequences=== Dreikurs described two types ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- growing in parks, woods, lakes, and other natural areas. ... in disturbed environments whose soil or natural vegetative cover has been ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- ===Wildlife and Natural Resources=== can penetrate the water. Other important natural resources in the region ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- provide a safe environment for play in a natural setting. ... org/Index.aspx?page=537 "History of Playgrounds,"] City ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- chord of length equal to the radius made a natural base quantity. One sixtieth ... functions have simpler and more "natural" properties when their ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- The area designated by UNESCO as the World Natural Heritage Site includes ... protection and blessing. Third, the natural beauty and uniqueness of ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- are curated at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) and at the Institute ... * Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2007a. [http://www ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- == History == This element, which was named for France, was the last ... (Atomic Number 87), the Last Discovered Natural Element.] The Chemical Educator ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- explained the process of development as a natural and mechanical one, which ... Athens and gave scientific explanations of natural phenomena. His account of ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- ==History and natural occurrence== Sometime after its discovery around ... of such clay silt and sand, creating a natural source of excellent molding ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2023
- == History == Archaeological evidence shows that dyeing has been carried ... including vat dyes (similar to the ancient natural dyes) and modern synthetic ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- and B. Bronson. 2001. Pearls: A Natural History. New York: Harry Abrams ... of N. H. Landman, et al. Pearls: A Natural History."] Zoogoer (January ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- advanced the development of the theory of natural law and distinguished between ... councillor, was instructed to write a history of the Elector Frederick ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- or most synthetic drugs, preferring "natural" remedies, i.e., relatively ... doctor's role to facilitate this natural process. Second, nature ...20 KB (2,831 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- (1726) and The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution ... Butler defended natural and revealed religion through a doctrine of ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- role because of its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. ... The primary exports of the Arabian Peninsula are oil and natural gas ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Earth's history was viewed as the result of an accumulation of ... ===Cuvier and the natural theologians=== The leading scientific proponent ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- a structure by carving it out of solid natural rock. The craftsman removes ... as accompanied the caves. Throughout the history of rock-cut temples, the ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- == History == ===Origin=== [[Image:Oskar von Miller.jpg|thumb|240px ... ===German Museum for Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology=== ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- from the cactus seed, and peyote in its natural form, are widely distributed ... reality that can best explored through more natural methods. ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 02:54, 24 November 2022
- such as theology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. Later skeptics ... to other topics, such as ethics, natural philosophy, and theology. ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- of profits from the large amounts of natural resources in the area. The ... The history of this ocean is intrinsically tied to the debate regarding ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH or The Field Museum) is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It sits ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
- for individuals to cede some of their natural rights to the government ... No. 2,"] Teaching American History. Retrieved October 12, 2023 ...20 KB (2,888 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- diverse disciplines, such as philosophy, history, law, and economics. Historicism ... If all knowledge is conditioned by history, there is no objectivity ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- == History == Chlorine was first characterized by the Swedish chemist ... For these reasons, some consumers prefer the use of natural cleaning ...7 KB (964 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- a reality, he moved from a theory of natural rights to social Darwinism ... a reality, he moved from a theory of natural rights to social Darwinism ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- Histoire naturelle de l'âme (Natural History of the Soul, 1745), ... Histoire naturelle de l'âme (Natural History of the Soul) (1745) ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- began to write and speak about American history, promoting the concept of ... theory of Charles Darwin to the history of philosophy. His was deeply ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- that human beings could not affect natural phenomena, and that all ... with calamities. Wang declared that natural events occur spontaneously ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
