HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, one of the most distinguished of living men of science, was born in Dublin on the 4th of August, 1805. There are few instances on record of more vast development of intellectual power than he early exhibited. At the age of six he had acquired the elements of Greek and Latin, and at thirteen he was acquainted with thirteen languages, including Syriac, Persian, Arabic, Sanscrit, Hindostanee, and Malay.
HYLE is a peer reviewed international journal dedicated to all philosophical aspects of chemistry. Articles deal with epistemological, methodological, foundational, and ontological problems of chemistry and its subfields; the peculiarities of chemistry and relations to technology, other scientific and non-scientific fields; aesthetical, ethical, and environmental matters in chemistry; as well as philosophically relevant facets of the history, sociology, linguistics, and education of chemistry. The journal offers top quality original articles and essays, bookreviews, reports, and short biographies.
The influence of Christianity in providing an appropriate intellectual ethos for a rational understanding of the universe is at least one reason for the development of modern science in Europe about 500 years ago. According to Alfred North Whitehead, the greatest contribution of the medieval period to the scientific movement was the "belief that every detailed occurence can be correlated with its antecedent in a perfectly definite manner, exemplifying general principles.
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science was founded as a University Museum in 1944. The collection covers all branches of science and its applications from physics to phrenology and from magnetism to microscopy. Scientific instruments, models, prints and related objects are displayed in the early 17th-century Perse Room and in side galleries.
The Nobel Prize winners in physics 1901-1998 (some pictures are still missing)
The geometric algebra of which Leibniz dreamed, and in which the concept of real number is thoroughly assimilated, was created by Hermann Grassmann in the mid-nineteenth century.
Malaspina Great Books is a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are the living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical.
In 1581 Bruno went to Paris and began to give lectures on philosophy. It was not an uncommon thing for scholars to wander from place to place. He made contacts easily and was able to interest any group with whom he came in contact with the fire of his ideas.
Amongst known astronomers of our time, probably, no name more popular and more enigmatic, than name of professor Kozyrev. On length more than thirty years it does not come off pages of scientific seal, scientifically-popular publishing, journals and newspapers. All has begun from disputes on the cause of finding by Nilolay À. Kozyrev tectonic activity of the Moon in november 1958. Serious debates lasted eleven years and have ended all official conferring to Kozyrev diploma on the opening.
The truth is that today, 200 years since his birth, Henry, the Smithsonian Institution's first Secretary, is largely unknown.
