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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...sm]] (through [[logic]]), [[empiricism]] (through observation), and even through [[leap of faith|leaps of faith...
7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward.
33: ...rge set of syllogisms. The memorization proceeded from diagrams, or learning a key sentence, with the ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
5: ...r, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Colum...
7: ...y enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adolesce... - Brain (22060 bytes)
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks...
40: ===Methods of observation=== - Skull (7027 bytes)
2: ...re of [[vertebrate]]s which serves as the general framework for a [[head (anatomy)|head]]. The skull f...
5: ...- The skull from the front.png|thumb|Human skull (front)]]
15: ...fuse together into solid bone (for example, the [[frontal bone]]s).
17: ...it is a "soft spot" on a baby's forehead. Careful observation will show that you can count a baby's heartrate b...
20: ...ly serious. Normally the skull protects the brain from damage through its hard unyieldingness, but in ... - Pineal gland (4403 bytes)
17: ...PVN) into [[superior cervical ganglia]] (SCG) and from there into the pineal gland.
29: ... not duplicated on the right and left sides. This observation is not true, however; under a microscope one find... - Anatomy (6382 bytes)
4: ...' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''anatome'', from ''ana-temnein'', to cut up), is the branch of [...
8: ...anatomy, and this human anatomy may be approached from different points of view.
10: From that of Medicine it consists of a knowledge of ...
12: ...essional human anatomists, after years of patient observation, are complete masters of all its details; most of...
17: From the morphological point of view, however, human... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va...
36: ... and what changes in society and thought resulted from it. Other accounts of what constitutes the revo...
40: ...l, thus causing the stone to land some space away from the tower's bottom. This effect is not observed... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
1: ...German styling, in a 16th century engraved book [[frontispiece]]]]
11: ...midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as you go from the equator to the polar circle). He put the m...
14: ...from the Arctic to the East-indies and deep into Africa; Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about onl...
16: ...pts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'' however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by ...
18: ...on the ''Geography'' was on display in [[Autun]] (France) in late Roman times. In the 15th century Pto... - Science (19868 bytes)
14: ...strated the impossibility of a theory-independent observation language, so the very notion of testing theories ...
15: ...ions, rules, practices, etc. and that transitions from one paradigm to another generally does not invo...
26: ...is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations.
30: An especially fruitful theory that has withstood the test of time ...
32: ...ntal theories may turn out to be imperfect if new observations are inconsistent with them. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
21: ...Not a single [[eclipse]] record has been utilized from that period so far. Pharaoh [[Sahure]] or [[Sep...
23: ...ical correspondent of the ''[[The Times|Times]]'' from 1967. He wrote in his ''Ancient Maya civilizati...
29: ...or later, page 307). Edgerton points out that the fragment of the el-Lahun temple register that forete...
31: ...8th year and death of [[Shoshenq V]]; if reckoned from 822 BCE, then the end of Shoshenq's reign falls...
38: ...nown for certian when or where the Egyptians come from and what the Egyptians knew of their own histor... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: '''Geology''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] γη- (''ge-''...
3: ... which includes the [[Crust (geology)|crust]], is fragmented into [[tectonic plates]] that move over a...
10: ...gical [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed...
12: ...her languages of Europe such as [[French language|French]]. [[Georg Bauer]] (Georg Agricola), a physic...
16: ... the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of th... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...nst one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide pa...
5: ...tonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: [[continental drift]], noticed in the early 20...
8: ...h the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]]...
12: ...crust|oceanic]] lithospheres; for example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of t...
18: ...oundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: '''Antarctica''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] ἀντ&alpha...
8: ...he fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa]], [[North America]], and [[South America]]. H...
15: ...oldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s rarely penetrate far into the continent, le...
32: Most countries that have observation or study facilities in Antarctica have those faci...
37: ...erre Ad鬩e]], one of the four districts of the [[French Southern Territories]] - United States (58223 bytes)
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[...
58: ...on of the Americas]], [[thirteen colonies]] split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the...
60: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though...
62: ...e U.S. acquired a number of overseas possessions, from [[Cuba]] to the [[Philippines]], though it gave...
70: ... American people. Americans enjoy [[universal suffrage]]. ''More information at the Main article: [[P... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ... is a preserved [[corpse]] that, due to shielding from [[decomposition]] by either natural or artifici...
6: ... [[China]], preserved corpses have been recovered from submerged [[cypress]] coffins packed with medic...
8: ...rved mummies formed under natural conditions date from the [[Inca]] period in [[Peru]].
12: ... of bitumen.) The Arabic word was itself borrowed from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''mū...
15: ...gyptologie 21.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. [[Mus�e du Louvre]], [[Paris]]... - Indiana (20194 bytes)
47: ...n]] as part of the settlement at the end of the [[French and Indian War]], given to the [[United State...
60: ... 475 mile long [[Wabash River]] bisects the state from northeast to southwest and has given Indiana tw...
71: A high percentage of Indiana's GDP comes from manufacturing, and much of this activity is hea...
75: ...bably best known for its decorative [[limestone]] fron the southern, hilly portion of the state. One o...
83: *8.4% [[African American|Black]] - Space (10661 bytes)
6: ...damental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual framework (together with [[time]] and [[number]]) wi...
16: * That which separates objects from one another
43: ...e. [[Astronomy]] is the science involved with the observation, explanation and measuring of objects in [[outer ...
47: ... think (and talk) about the world. Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can space itself be measured,...
49: ...s, but rather both are elements of a systematic [[framework]] we use to structure our experience. Spa... - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
1: ...''Astronomy''' is the [[science]] involving the [[observation]] and [[explanation]] of events occurring beyond ...
10: ...physics is concerned mainly with figuring out the observational implications of different models, and involves ...
31: ... evolution]]: the study of the evolution of stars from their formation to their end as a stellar remna...
48: :''Main article:'' [[Observational astronomy]].
49: In astronomy, [[information]] is mainly received from the detection and analysis of [[electromagnetic... - Sun (20830 bytes)
8: ...bgcolor="#ffffc0" colspan="2" align="center" | '''Observation data'''
10: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>Earth
21: ! align="left" | Mean distance from<br>[[Milky Way]] core
55: ! align="left" | [[Escape velocity]]<br> from the surface
122: ...onally referred to as '''Sol''' to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet [[Earth]] [[orbit]]s the ... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ...is picture of [[433 Eros]] shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its...
4: The term "asteroid", meaning ''star-like'' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''asteroeides'', '...
8: ...larger than 50 m in diameter, distinguishing them from [[meteoroid]]s, which are typically [[boulder]]...
14: ...Earth's solar system. As of [[May 23]], [[2005]], from a total of 277,090 minor planets with calculate...
24: ...s, whereas families are much "tighter" and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent ast...
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