Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (including the Chemical Gazette) Practical Chemistry: 1773 William Crookes FRS The London Medical Journal: By a Society of Physicians [2] Medicine (UK) 1781 Society of Physicians in London, "Printed by W[illiam]. Richardson and sold by J. Murray, no 32, Fleet-street" "Original from Oxford ...
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, published by the Royal Society of London, was the only scientific periodical being published on a regular, quarterly basis. The Paris Academy of Sciences, formed in 1666, began publishing in volumes of memoirs rather than a quarterly journal, with periods ...
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
3rd century BC: Archimedes uses the method of exhaustion to construct a strict inequality bounding the value of π within an interval of 0.002. 3rd century BC: Archimedes develops the field of statics, introducing notions such as the center of gravity, mechanical equilibrium, the study of levers, and hydrostatics.
Written by Abraham Wolf as a sequel to A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1935), [1] [2] the book was first published in 1939. It comprises 32 chapters, [3] most of which pertain to the sciences, including astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, geography, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, meteorology, physics, and zoology. [4]
The history of the social sciences has its origins in the common stock of Western philosophy and shares various precursors, but began most intentionally in the early 18th century with the positivist philosophy of science. Since the mid-20th century, the term "social science" has come to refer more generally, not just to sociology but to all ...
Before 1750, the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural, and architectural leadership, as French was the language of high society. By the mid-18th century, the Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature. Christian Wolff was the pioneer as a writer ...
India remained the world's only source of diamonds until the discovery of diamonds in Brazil in the 18th century. [228] [229] [230] Golconda served as an important centre for diamonds in central India. [231] Diamonds then were exported to other parts of the world, including Europe. [231] Early references to diamonds in India come from Sanskrit ...