Understanding of these accomplishments could only be reached by looking back and studying the works of antiquity. ... More people were therefore introduced to these disciplines which provided a broader base of learned individuals who contributed many important philosophies and ideas, having an impact on modern day science. ...
FRANCIS BACON "Of Studies" (1625) Francis Bacon was a philosopher and a politician who came from a noble family, and would also become nephew by marriage to William Cecil, 1st Minister of Queen Elizabeth then. ... This essay ("Of Studies", 1625) is the remake of the former version, which had been written by him in 1597. ... Bacon proposes, in the form of an exposition, various things that are supposed to help us within our careers, as he keeps on using examples and comparisons on how different types of men would act before different problems, always related to studies. ... It is cle...
Comte looked at human progress and decided that there are three stages to the evolutionary growth of knowledge; "Each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge, passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological or fictitious: the Metaphysical or abstract: and the Scientific or positive...In the final, the positive state the mind...applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance." (Comte 1830 The Philosophy' of Sociology' in Thompson 1995 p. 39-40) Comte argued that the human...
This began the way for scientific research and scientific belief; one of the first steps into the study of bioelectricity, a field that, still today, studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system. ... In the beginning of the novel, the reader is shown the fascination that people from the era had over electricity and scientific study. ... Frankenstein listens in on Professor Waldman's lecture over philosophy, and he explains, "But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible, have indeed p...
Ravetz explains that when an amazing scientific discovery or feat is made and showcased to society, society does not think about the incredible amount of effort and time consuming research, study and work that went into make such a thing possible. ... "Their purpose was the achievement of truth and they were committed to the view that this could be achieved only through a certain approach to the study of the natural world."5 This particular image of science is seen as a defence for the freedom of science and has continued down to today. The technocratic conception of science is a more rec...
THE MARCH OF RELIGION TO THIRD MILLENNIUM: - Swami Ranganathanada wrote, "A scientific study of religion reveals two dimensions to every religion, especially to every one of the highly developed world religions, namely, religion as a socio-political expression, and religion as a path to the experience of God, or any value equivalent to." ... In fact every branch of every science is an integral part of Vedic study. ... SIMILARITIES BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE:- On reflecting upon and studying the interrelationship of Science and Religion one finds that religion is a system of knowl...
" (Pg. 33) A philosophy of history embedded in human development and the human mind began to manifest in this century through the works of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and Condorcet. ... During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astronomy emerged, the author notes how Darwin's revolution opened scientific exploration further into the areas of geology and biology. ... Darwin, starting as a geologist, studying the transformations in the Earth, connected these changes in the natural physical wor...
"All their numerous concepts of electricity had something in common-they were partially derived from one or another version of the mechanico-corpuscular philosophy that guided all scientific research of the day. ... "One recent research, which received support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was the only large-scale study to date of the extent and consequences of binge drinking at a representative sample of American colleges and universities. ...
." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...
