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July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (died 1786) September 27 – Anton Friedrich Busching , German geographer (died 1793 ) December 25 – John Michell , English scientist (died 1793 )
In the same year he was also named a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Of particular significance to cartography were the imperial printing privileges (Latin: privilegia impressoria). These protected for a time the authors in all scientific fields such as printers, copper engravers, map makers and publishers. They were also ...
One of the most important developments that the Enlightenment era brought to the discipline of science was its popularization. An increasingly literate population seeking knowledge and education in both the arts and the sciences drove the expansion of print culture and the dissemination of scientific learning.
1724 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the ...
The idea of a tree of life arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower into higher forms of life (such as in the Great Chain of Being).Early representations of "branching" phylogenetic trees include a "paleontological chart" showing the geological relationships among plants and animals in the book Elementary Geology, by Edward Hitchcock (first edition: 1840).
Kortet over verdens kulturer er baseret på data fra World Values Survey. English: A recreation of the Inglehart–Welzel Cultural Map of the World , created by political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel based on the World Values Survey data – survey wave 4, finalised 2004.; data is also available in the doc file at [1]
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[4] Throughout the book, Peterson attempts to explain how the mind works, while including illustrations with elaborate geometric diagrams (e.g. "The Constituent Elements of Experience as Personality, Territory, and Process").