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Note-taking has been an important part of human history and scientific development. The Ancient Greeks developed hypomnema, personal records on important subjects.In the Renaissance and early modern period, students learned to take notes in schools, academies and universities, often producing beautiful volumes that served as reference works after they finished their studies.
All India Secondary School Examination, commonly known as the class 10th board exam, is a centralized public examination that students in schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, primarily in India but also in other Indian-patterned schools affiliated to the CBSE across the world, taken at the end of class 10.
During the Age of Enlightenment, many books were written that spread the new science to both experts and the educated public, [3] but Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (first edition 1834) was arguably the first book in the modern genre of popular science. [4]
What If? is Munroe's second published book, his first being XKCD: Volume 0, a curated collection of xkcd comics released in 2009. [12] Munroe released a third book, titled Thing Explainer, in 2015, and a fourth book titled How To in 2019. [13] [14] A sequel, What If? 2, was announced in January 2022 and was released on September 13 that year. [6]
Logic (from Greek: λογική, logikḗ, 'possessed of reason, intellectual, dialectical, argumentative') [5] [6] [note 1] is the systematic study of valid rules of inference, i.e. the relations that lead to the acceptance of one proposition (the conclusion) on the basis of a set of other propositions ().
The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. [4] [6] A 2006 survey by the American Physical Society (APS) revealed that 76 out of the 80 U.S. physics departments surveyed require all first-year graduate students to complete a course using the third edition of this book.
The Beginnings of Western Science, subtitled The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (1992 edition) [2] or The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450 (2007 edition), [3] is an introductory [4] book on the history of science by David C. Lindberg.
Starting with the second edition of his Principia, Newton included a final section on science philosophy or method. It was here that he wrote his famous line, in Latin, "hypotheses non fingo", which can be translated as "I don't make hypotheses," (the direct translation of "fingo" is "frame", but in context he was advocating against the use of ...