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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 559 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Space Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 336 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.From the history of space exploration to the future of space business, this set offers a broad survey of the space sciences. Includes biographies of scientists and the space-related job market. ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerard Kuiper, Selenography, Johannes Hevelius, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Edmund Neville Nevill, Johann Heinrich Von Mädler, Tobias Mayer, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Mary Adela Blagg, John Russell, Hugh Percy Wilkins, Wilhelm Beer, Thomas Gwyn Elger, Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann, Johann Nepomuk Krieger, Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth, Casimir Marie Gaudibert, Walter Goodacre, Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon. Historically, the principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunar maria, craters, mountain ranges, and other various features. This task was largely finished when high resolution images of the near and far sides of the Moon were obtained by orbiting spacecraft during the early space era. Nevertheless, some regions of the Moon remain poorly imaged (especially near the poles) and the exact locations of many features are uncertain by several kilometers. Today, selenography is considered to be a subdiscipline of selenology, which itself is most often referred to as just "lunar science." The word selenography is derived from the Greek lunar deity Selene and (graph, I write). The idea that the Moon was not perfectly smooth can be traced as far back as approximately 450 BC, when Democritus believed that there were "lofty mountains and hollow valleys" on the Moon. However, it was not until the end of the 15th century when serious study of selenography began. Around 1603, William Gilbert compiled the first lunar drawing based on naked-eye observations. Others soon followed, and when the telescope made its appearance, dr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2212880 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gersonides, Pierre Gassendi, Dane Rudhyar, Michel Gauquelin, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere, Françoise Hardy, Jean-Baptiste Morin, Pierre d'Ailly, Bonet de Lattes, Raymond Abellio, Jacques Gaffarel, Louis Turi, Walcher of Malvern, Don Neroman,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 - October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. With a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some of the positions he worked out are considered significant, finding a way between scepticism and dogmatism. Richard Popkin indicates that Gassendi was one of the first thinkers to formulate the modern "scientific outlook", of moderated scepticism and empiricism. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge. His best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. Gassendi was born at Champtercier, near Digne, in France. A youthful prodigy, at a very early age he showed academic potential and attended the college at Digne, where he displayed a particular aptitude for languages and mathematics. Soon afterwards he entered the University of Aix-en-Provence, to study philosophy under Philibert Fesaye. In 1612 the college of Digne called him to lecture on theology. Four years later he received the degree of Doctor of Theology at Avignon, and in 1617 he took holy orders. In the same year he answered a call to ...http://booksllc.net/?id=197030 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Luciano Berio, Carlo Amoretti, Mario Bava, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Pasquale Anfossi, Claudio Scajola, Fabio Fognini, Edmondo de Amicis, Matteo Giordano, Giulio Natta, Maurizio Peccarisi, Mariella Devia, Mercedes Bresso, Hassan Aziz Hassan, Angelo Iachino, Cino Tortorella, Ugo Ventimiglia. Excerpt:Angelo Iachino (or Jachino ; April 4, 1889 - December 3, 1976) was an Italian admiral during World War II . Early life and career Born at Sanremo , Liguria , Iachino entered the Italian Naval Academy at Livorno in 1904, and graduated in 1907. During World War I he served as commander of a torpedo boat. For his bravery in a combat action he received a decoration at war's end in November 1918. From 1923 to 1928 he served in China as naval attache to the Italian embassy. In 1928 he assumed command of a destroyer, and then a cruiser in the early 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War he was the commander of two groups of light ships. He also participated in the occupation of Albania in April 1939. World War II Iachino commanded a cruiser squadron in the Battle of Cape Spartivento in 1940, and after the Battle of Taranto became an Ammiraglio di Squadra (Vice Admiral) and commander-in-chief of the Regia Marina . He led the navy in the battles of Cape Matapan (March 1941), First Sirte (December 1941) and Second Sirte (March 1942). On 5 April 1943 he was relieved of command and replaced by Carlo Bergamini . He retired in 1954 with the rank of Ammiraglio d'Armata (Admiral), and died in Rome in 1976, at the age of 87. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Carlo Amoretti Carlo Amoretti (16 March 1741, Oneglia , now part of Imperia 23 March 1816) was an ecclesiastic , scholar , writer , and scientist . He was born in Oneglia, now Imperia in the Liguria region, Italy... ... Read more

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Chapters: Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, Gerard Kuiper, William Herschel, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Edward Emerson Barnard, Asaph Hall, Audouin Dollfus, William Cranch Bond, William Henry Pickering, William Lassell, Seth Barnes Nicholson, George Phillips Bond, Scott S. Sheppard, Charles Dillon Perrine, James W. Christy, Charles T. Kowal, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Yanga R. Fernández, Elizabeth Roemer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments. Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of philosophers and astronomers still subscribed (at least outwar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11945 ... Read more

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Cassini?Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites. The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the NASA-designed and -constructed Cassini orbiter, named for the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and the ESA-developed Huygens probe, named for the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens. The complete Cassini space probe was launched on October 15, 1997, and after a long interplanetary voyage, it entered into orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe was separated from the orbiter at approximately 02:00 UTC. Then, it reached Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005, when it made a descent into Titan's atmosphere, and downwards to the surface, radioing scientific information back to the Earth by telemetry. On April 18, 2008, NASA announced a two-year extension of the funding for ground operations of this mission, at which point it was renamed to Cassini Equinox Mission. Cassini is the first space probe to orbit the planet Saturn and the fourth one to visit Saturn. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 4554 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of what we think accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism ... Read more