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Pages : 384
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Habit and Intelligence in Their Connexion with the Laws of Matter and Force by Joseph John Murphy
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Pages : 384
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Pages : 384
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Habit and Intelligence in Their Connexion with the Laws of Matter and Force: a Series of Scientific Essays
Author: Joseph John Murphy
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Habit and Intelligence, in their connexion with the laws of matter and force. A seris of scientific essays
Author: Joseph John Murphy
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Pages : 322
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ISBN: 3382140179
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382140179
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382506645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382506645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Catalogue of the Library of the University of London. Including the Libraries of George Grote and Augustus de Morgan
Author: Anonymous
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ISBN: 3385498732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Entropic Creation
Author: Helge S. Kragh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317142470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future 'heat death', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the 'entropic creation argument', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this book. The heat death and the claim of cosmic creation were widely discussed in the period 1870 to 1920, with participants in the debate including European scientists, intellectuals and social critics, among them the physicist William Thomson and the communist thinker Friedrich Engels. One reason for the passion of the debate was that some authors used the law of entropy increase to argue for a divine creation of the world. Consequently, the second law of thermodynamics became highly controversial. In Germany in particular, materialists and positivists engaged in battle with Christian - mostly Catholic - scholars over the cosmological consequences of thermodynamics. This heated debate, which is today largely forgotten, is reconstructed and examined in detail in this book, bringing into focus key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317142470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future 'heat death', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the 'entropic creation argument', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this book. The heat death and the claim of cosmic creation were widely discussed in the period 1870 to 1920, with participants in the debate including European scientists, intellectuals and social critics, among them the physicist William Thomson and the communist thinker Friedrich Engels. One reason for the passion of the debate was that some authors used the law of entropy increase to argue for a divine creation of the world. Consequently, the second law of thermodynamics became highly controversial. In Germany in particular, materialists and positivists engaged in battle with Christian - mostly Catholic - scholars over the cosmological consequences of thermodynamics. This heated debate, which is today largely forgotten, is reconstructed and examined in detail in this book, bringing into focus key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century.
Morte Darthur
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Pages : 1344
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Pages : 1344
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Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications, 1829–1883
Author: John van Wyhe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139479016
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Charles Darwin's words first appeared in print as a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1829, and in almost every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors, or other brief works. These shorter publications contain a wealth of valuable material. They represent an important part of the Darwin visible to the Victorian public, alongside his ever present sense of humour, and reveal an even wider variety of his scientific interests and abilities, which continued to his final days. This book brings together all known shorter publications and printed items Darwin wrote during his lifetime, including his first and his last publications, and the first publication, with A. R. Wallace, of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. With over seventy newly discovered items, the book is fully edited and annotated, and contains original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139479016
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Charles Darwin's words first appeared in print as a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1829, and in almost every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors, or other brief works. These shorter publications contain a wealth of valuable material. They represent an important part of the Darwin visible to the Victorian public, alongside his ever present sense of humour, and reveal an even wider variety of his scientific interests and abilities, which continued to his final days. This book brings together all known shorter publications and printed items Darwin wrote during his lifetime, including his first and his last publications, and the first publication, with A. R. Wallace, of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. With over seventy newly discovered items, the book is fully edited and annotated, and contains original illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.