who is the author of the science book experiments and observations on electricity published in 1751
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on electricity made Franklin famous throughout Europe as a serious scientist. Eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley writes in his book "The History and Present State of Electricity" (1767) that nobody had written an in-depth study of electricity with the use of scientific experimentation like this of Franklin's that had been translated into most European languages in the eighteenth century. Benjamin Franklin was given the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1753 in recognition of his work in electricity as reported in this book. Experiments and Observations on Electricity The book came about through the activities of scientists at the
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rod invention to protect wooden buildings such as houses and churches. Watson turned over some of these Franklin letters to the local publisher Edward Cave, who had them printed in "The Gentleman's Magazine" in 1750. In April 1751 Cave printed in a publication more of the letters Collinson had received and they included corrections personally added by Franklin. This publication was titled, "Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made in Philadelphia in America by Mr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and Communicated in several letters to Mr. P. Collinson of London, F.R.S" (London). It was a 90-page pamphlet of 86 numbered pages. The pamphlet
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on electricity made Franklin famous throughout Europe as a serious scientist. Eighteenth-century British polymath Joseph Priestley writes in his book "The History and Present State of Electricity" (1767) that nobody had written an in-depth study of electricity with the use of scientific experimentation like this of Franklin's that had been translated into most European languages in the eighteenth century. Benjamin Franklin was given the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1753 in recognition of his work in electricity as reported in this book. Experiments and Observations on Electricity The book came about through the activities of scientists at the
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historian Mark Catesby. Collinson maintained an extensive correspondence and was friendly with notable scientists in London and abroad including Sloane, Carl Linnaeus, Gronovius, Dr. John Fothergill, Cadwallader Colden, and Benjamin Franklin. Collinson was a particular patron of the Philadelphia scientific community assisting the fledgling American Philosophical Society founded by Bartram and Franklin in 1743. He also served for many years as the purchasing agent for the Library Company of Philadelphia. It was through Collinson that Franklin first communicated to the Royal Society what would in 1751 be published as "Experiments and Observations on Electricity." He was elected a foreign member
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Robert Symmer Robert Symmer, FRS (1707–1763) was a Scottish philosopher and physicist, known principally for the now defunct fluid theory of electricity. Symmer was born in Galloway, Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, matriculating in 1719 but not graduating until 1735. He published a four-part treatise in the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" titled "New Experiments and Observations concerning Electricity". His paper suggested that electricity was not a single force, as was believed by, for example Benjamin Franklin and Giambatista Beccaria, but was instead two opposing forces arising from two separate liquids. He reported his observations on
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widow. There he carried out experiments into electricity with his friends, including John Godfrey, Thomas Ruddock and Stephen Gray, on the lines of those published by Benjamin Franklin and others, confirming Franklin's identification of lightning as an electrical discharge. They investigated ways to communicate electricity, using a variety of material threads running through the building. Wheler was the first in England to electrify a live animal. After Gray's death in 1736, he published his own observations in electrostatics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. Wheler died on 12 May 1770 and was buried in Otterden church.
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him election as a fellow of the society. In 1751 he was a recipient of the Copley Medal "On account of his communicating to the Society, and exhibiting before them, his curious method of making Artificial Magnets without the use of Natural ones." He was the first in England to verify Benjamin Franklin's hypothesis of the identity of lightning and electricity, and he made several important electrical discoveries. In 1762 and 1764 he published experiments in refutation of the decision of the Florentine Academy, at that time generally accepted, that water is incompressible. In 1768 he described the preparation, by
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copies of the electrostatic machine to many of his close associates to encourage them to study electricity. Between 1747 and 1750, Franklin sent many letters to his friend Collinson in London about his experiments with the electrostatic machine and the Leyden jar, including his observations and theories on the principles of electricity. These letters were collected and published in 1751 in a book entitled "Experiments and Observations on Electricity." While Joseph Priestley was writing about the history of electricity, Franklin encouraged him to use an electrostatic machine to perform the experiments he was writing about. Priestly designed and used his
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of 1751 was supplemented in 1753 with 20 more pages and called "Supplemental Experiments and Observations, Part II". It was numbered 89 to 109 and published by E. Cave. This was again supplemented with an additional 44 pages in 1754, numbered 110 to 154, and titled "New Experiments and Observations, Part III." It was published by R. Cave, the son of E. Cave. The second edition published in 1754 was a reprint of parts I and II of the first edition. The third edition published in 1760, 1762, and 1764 was a reprint of all three parts of the first
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period and send them to the printer for publication. This first collection of letters was published in a ninety-page pamphlet in 1751. It was soon followed by other parts that were "Supplemental" to the existing edition and eventually a "New" publication was sold from the total of all the "Parts" produced. Each edition expanded by additional Franklin letters being added. It ultimately became a 496-page volume by 1769. The book inspired others to follow in Franklin's footsteps to do further in-depth research on electricity. Franklin was first attracted to the study of electricity when he saw the showman Archibald Spencer
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Experiments and Observations on Electricity The book came about through the activities of scientists at the Royal Society of London. Franklin sent letters to members of the Society about his experiments on electricity and the observations he had made. Most of these letters went to Peter Collinson. Some of these were read at the society's meetings. There was much interest shown, so some of them were sent to a printer to be published in a magazine. Public interest in Franklin's letters about electricity led the Society to gather together many of the letters to Collinson from Franklin over a two-year
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included an unsigned preface written by Dr. John Fothergill. This first publication of "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" sold for the expensive price of two shillings and sixpence British money, . The eighteenth century book consists of a collection of letters and essays written by Franklin. Most of the 25 letters in the collection were to Collinson. Some had personal content, but most were about his experiments with electricity and what he had observed from them. These talked about the conclusions he came to after doing scientific experimentation on Leyden jars and lightning storm clouds. He many times related the
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the bust from the statue in the Memorial, the figurehead of Franklin's bust from the "USS Franklin", his ceremonial sword used in the court of King Louis XVI, and the odometer that Franklin used to measure the postal routes in Philadelphia. Additionally, the Institute's "Electricity" exhibition highlights one of Franklin's lightning rods, his electricity tube, a Franklin Electrostatic Generator, the 1751 publication of Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity", and Thornton Oakley's two 1940 historical murals of Franklin and the "Kite and Key" experiment. In 1826, "The Journal of The Franklin Institute" was established to publish US Patent information and
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editions were a book volume with hard covers. Franklin's letters explained his experiments and the observations he made from them. He sent these to Collinson to show that the equipment put into the hands of the group of men associated with Library Company of Philadelphia was being put to good use. William Watson, a scientist specializing in the study of electricity, theorized that perhaps electricity was attracted to conductors that were pointed. Watson received in 1746 from Dr. John Mitchell a lengthy Franklin letter on theories about thunderstorms and pointed conductors as related to electricity. He read part of the
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position in Salisbury for many years. He died at Milford, near Salisbury, in his ninety-eighth year, an age reached by very few persons in the annals of medicine. Fowler always kept up an interest in science, without producing any notable original work. While a student in Edinburgh, after his return from Paris, he was fascinated by the recent discoveries of Galvani on the form of electricity called by his name, and made numerous experiments on the subject, which were published in a small volume entitled ‘Experiments and Observations on the Influence lately discovered by M. Galvani, and commonly called Animal
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to lightning hits had been discovered. Franklin's lightning conductor invention, with its lightning rod uppermost point, became a model for the lightning-protection system used in America in the eighteenth century. King Louis XV honored Franklin after seeing some of the electrical experiments done in the royal palace at St. Germain near Paris, France. However physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), a skeptic who had published his own theory on electricity, declared Franklin's ideas were wrong. He claimed in 1753 that Franklin's lightning rod was not only dangerous but useless and would attract lightning bolts to wooden buildings, causing them to be hit
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similarities of how each of these acted and that the principles they followed were identical. This connection ultimately led Franklin to the lightning rod and that the electricity could be diverted harmlessly away from houses and wooden buildings - making it a protection device. There were five English editions to this book. The first three editions were not hard cover volumes, but rather just pamphlets with paper covers of collected letters of Franklin. They were carelessly put together when published. Each of these pamphlet editions had supplements of additional letters that were added later and then republished. The first publication
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Ebenezer Kinnersley, Thomas Hopkinson, and Philip Syng and developed the first scientific research laboratory in America. He repeated his experiments to obtain the same results and recorded this observation. In this process he showed that anyone could repeat and prove these results themselves of the electrical principle if they did the experiment he detailed. Franklin spent much time studying this new field of electricity, and from 1747 through 1750 sent many letters to Collinson on his findings. The book consists of a collection of these letters. The book came in pamphlet form for the first three editions. The last two
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is the first complete edition in one volume and had hard covers. He added footnotes to make certain issues clearer. In this edition he also added several of his own philosophical essays and completed the volume with an index. The fourth edition was a book volume with hard covers that increased the number of pages from 154 to 496. Franklin added papers on his lightning rod invention, meteorological observations, human nature, worldwide population increase, waterspouts, experiments on amber, and information on his Pennsylvania fireplace invention. This edition had copper plate illustrations of his lightning rod design, new fireplace, and electrical
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Chemistry Book for Boys and Girls / Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner, Date: [1950] First Chemistry Book for Boys and Girls / Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner, Date: [1962] First Chemistry Book for Boys and Girls / Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner, Date: c1977. Simple Chemical Experiments / Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: D. Appleton-Century, Date: [1941] Electronics 15 part series published in Popular Electricity Magazine 1910-1911. Series Title: "A High-Power Wireless Equipment" by Alfred P. Morgan Ref: 1988 WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION FOR AMATEURS by Alfred Powell Morgan, Third Edition, D.
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more often. Franklin in time proved to the scientific community that his lightning rod invention not only was a protective device, but it also served as a preventive way to divert destructive lightning bolts away from hitting buildings. All editions of the book were being printed in Europe until 1941, when the first publication of it was done in the United States by I. Bernard Cohen. The book is Franklin's only scientific work, and is recognized by historians Gary F. Kurutz and Dennis Smith as America's most important scientific book of the eighteenth century. The publication for his scientific observations
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19th century, indeed up to about 1870, electrical science was, it may be said, a sealed book to the majority of electrical workers. Prior to this time a number of handbooks had been published on electricity and magnetism, notably Auguste de La Rive's exhaustive ' "Treatise on Electricity",' in 1851 (French) and 1853 (English); August Beer's "Einleitung in die Elektrostatik, die Lehre vom Magnetismus und die Elektrodynamik", Wiedemann's ' "Galvanismus",' and Reiss' "'Reibungsal-elektricitat".' But these works consisted in the main in details of experiments with electricity and magnetism, and but little with the laws and facts of those phenomena. Henry
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Joseph Carne-Ross Joseph Carne-Ross (1846-1911) was a Portuguese-born physician and science-fiction author. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, being awarded an MD in 1882 entitled 'Observations upon the modes of treatment of pleurisy with effusion: with special reference to the therapeutic value of thoracentesis'. He published a series of letters presenting the results of experiments using cinnamon to treat cancer, scarlet fever, measles and influenza in "The Lancet" medical journal in 1894. He was the author of the science-fiction novel "Quintura: Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs" (London: John and Robert Maxwell, 1886), which presents a description of
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to electricity such as "plus," "minus," "positive," "negative," "charge," "discharge," "armature," "electric shock," "electrician," "condenser," "conductor," and "battery." Franklin's first experiments explained in this first set of letters to Collinson that the Leyden jar, a type of capacitor, had equal and opposite charges on the inner and outer conductors. This was shown in illustrations in his book. The significant Franklin theory introduced to Collinson in a letter dated April 29, 1747, was the concept of the "dissectible condenser." Today we call this distribution of charges in a device, a capacitor. He observed that a charge was built up on both
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The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful - By a Lover of Mankind, and of Common Sense is a 1760 book by John Wesley advocating the use of electric shock therapy. Wesley collected the accounts of other researchers with "electrifying machines," and to them added observations from his own experiments in public clinics. The 72-page book has led Wesley to be mentioned alongside his contemporaries Richard Lovett and Jean Paul Marat as a pioneer advocate of the medical uses of electroconvulsive therapy, despite the fact that Wesley's tests and results are
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not considered scientific by modern standards. The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful The Desideratum; or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful - By a Lover of Mankind, and of Common Sense is a 1760 book by John Wesley advocating the use of electric shock therapy. Wesley collected the accounts of other researchers with "electrifying machines," and to them added observations from his own experiments in public clinics. The 72-page book has led Wesley to be mentioned alongside his contemporaries Richard Lovett and Jean Paul Marat as a pioneer advocate of the medical uses of electroconvulsive therapy, despite the fact
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which he accuses himself are too great a love for the studies of the materia medica and meteorology, irritability, and excessive enjoyment of food. He deplored these excesses in language which caused Samuel Johnson to laugh. His first medical book was ‘An Account of Experiments on Joanna Stephen's Medicine for the Stone,’ published in London in 1742. He published in Dublin in 1751 ‘A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland, from 1653 to 1751,’ a continuation of a book originally written by Thomas Wight of Cork in 1700; a fourth edition was issued
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Shaun Gallagher (author) Shaun Gallagher is an American author of two nonfiction books: "Experimenting with Babies" and "Correlated". He is a former magazine and newspaper editor and runs the website Correlated.org, on which "Correlated" is based. "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid" was published in October 2013 by Perigee Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book adapts experiments from child-development research so parents can perform them on their own baby. Gallagher was inspired to write the book by informal experimentation with his own infant sons, whom he has called his "two
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translated Franklin's "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" into French, performed Franklin's proposed experiment using a 40-foot-tall metal rod at Marly-la-Ville on 10 May 1752. It is said that Dalibard used wine bottles to ground the pole, and he successfully extracted electricity from a low cloud. It is not known whether Franklin ever performed his proposed experiment. Dalibard was the author of "Florae Parisiensis Prodromus, ou catalogue des plantes qui naissent dans les environs de Paris" (Florae Parisiensis Prodromus, or catalog of plants native to the area around Paris) (Paris, 1749). Thomas-François Dalibard Thomas-François Dalibard (born in Crannes-en-Champagne, France in 1709,
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of his experiments is translated into French, and Abbé Nollet, who is offended because this work calls into question his own theory of electricity, publishes his own book of letters attacking Franklin. Declining to respond on the grounds that anyone could duplicate and thus verify his experiments, Franklin sees another French author refute Nollet, and as Franklin's book is translated into other languages, its views are gradually accepted and Nollet's are discarded. Franklin is also voted an honorary member of the Royal Society. A new governor arrives, but disputes between the assembly and the governor continue. (Since the colonial governors
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later editions of the book Franklin explained in his letters and showed in illustrations an assembly of Leyden jars that he termed "electrical battery" following the military term of the time of a "battery" being a group of cannons assembled together. Franklin assembled a number of parallel-plate condensers consisting of 11 plates of glass and each were "armed" with a lead metal sheet on each side. He hooked them together with wires in a series and then a master wire was attached that could then discharge (balance) the battery when touched to both sides. The fourth edition, published in 1769,
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that static electricity could generate light in low-pressure gases led him to speculate that lightning was a form of static electric discharge. He also presented public lectures on science, which included experimental demonstrations of his own devising. Around 1700, he presented these demonstrations before students at the colleges of the University of Paris. His lectures proved very popular: in 1722, he presented a series of experiments before the young King of France, Louis XV. In 1709, he published "Expériences de Physique" (Physics Experiments), a book presenting his demonstrations on magnetism, light and colors, hydrostatics, the properties of air, and other
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in 1742 by English mathematician Benjamin Robins (1707–1751), and published in his book "New Principles of Gunnery", which revolutionized the science of ballistics, as it provided the first way to accurately measure the velocity of a bullet. Robins used the ballistic pendulum to measure projectile velocity in two ways. The first was to attach the gun to the pendulum, and measure the recoil. Since the momentum of the gun is equal to the momentum of the ejecta, and since the projectile was (in those experiments) the large majority of the mass of the ejecta, the velocity of the bullet could
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experiments. The fifth English edition was published in 1774. There was little difference between the fourth edition and the fifth edition. The only new document added in the fifth edition, that was not in the fourth edition, was the French experiment with lightning done in 1752. There was an advertisement in the "Public Advertiser" London newspaper of September 9, 1774, that promoted the fifth edition. The fourth English edition, published in 1769, was personally supervised by Franklin while visiting London from Philadelphia. He made several corrections on different parts of the first three editions and wrote explanatory notes. One important
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"Popular Science" has been included in "The Best American Science Writing 2007". He is a writer and commentator on new language, the Jargon Watch columnist for Wired Magazine the author of a devil's dictionary of technology, and a book of essays, "Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology", which Oxford University Press published in October 2010. Jonathon Keats Jonathon Keats (born October 2, 1971) is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. Keats was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Amherst College. He now lives in San Francisco
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correction Franklin noted in the Forward was that Letters 1 and 2 had been transposed and he had corrected that. He added a letter that was important to him. It was a letter to Collinson dated March 28, 1747. Franklin had thanked him for the gift of the German "electric tube" with directions on how to use it to make electricity. He was much appreciative of this, so he made that particular one Letter #1. This then advanced the numbering sequence of the Letters by one from the first three editions. There were eleven editions of Experiments and Observations on
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asking 'what should I do?', with third person observations about human behaviour. Chapter One presents a history of Western philosophy, noting that science and observation were usually an essential part of philosophy. Chapter Two deals with the challenges presented by behavioural science to ethics. Chapter Three covers intuition, and its role in ethics. The book notes that intuitive responses depend greatly on how a situation is framed. Chapter Four argue for ethical realism and ethical pluralism, within certain limits. Chapter Five, the last chapter, concludes that the purpose of ethics is to advise what he calls 'experiments in living', and
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stated by several anatomical writers to be the first full description of the bursae. In 1793, he published 'Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances, to determine the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity.' These experiments led him to the conclusion that nerve force was not identical with electricity. His last book, 'Three Treatises on the Brain, the Eye, and the Ear,' was published at Edinburgh in 1797. Manuscript copies of notes of his lectures on anatomy delivered in 1774 and 1775 are preserved in the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London,' and
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probed by future experiments (probably by the Planck space observatory). In 2006, Steinhardt and Turok showed how the cyclic model could naturally incorporate a mechanism for relaxing the cosmological constant to very small values, consistent with current observations. In 2007, Steinhardt and Turok co-authored the popular science book "Endless Universe". In 2012, Turok's Massey Lectures were published as "". In 2003, Turok founded the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, a postgraduate educational centre supporting the development of mathematics and science across the African continent. He was awarded the 2008 TED Prize for his work in mathematical physics and
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say, "Bob, how do they keep from running into these stakes? Or for that matter, from running into the boats." And, just joking, I said, "Maybe they have sonar." I knew that bats had sonar, and so did he...Kellogg decided by gosh he was going to find out, so he started working on the porpoise problem. Characteristic of Kellogg, he did so through experiments and careful observations. "The first two papers from the "Porpoise and Sonar" project were published in "Science" in 1952 and 1953, with Kohler as a co-author." Two of the main questions with regard to bottle-nose navigation
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negative values for two important parameters, e.g. permitivity and permeability. In 1968, his paper was translated and published in English. Later still, developments in nanofabrication and subwavelength imaging techniques are now taking this work into optical wavelengths. In the 19th century Maxwell's equations united all previous observations, experiments, and established propositions pertaining to electricity and magnetism into a consistent theory, which is also fundamental to optics. Maxwell's work demonstrated that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field. Likewise, the concept of using certain constructed materials as a method for manipulating electromagnetic
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December 1751 an essay on the cure of putrid sore throat, in which, like John Fothergill, he records and does not distinguish cases of scarlet fever and of diphtheria. He was the first medical writer to point out the resemblance of the condition in man to epidemic foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, a suggestion of great importance. In 1756, he published in Worcester a pamphlet of fourteen pages, "Experiments and Observations on the Malvern Waters." This reached a third edition in 1763, and was then enlarged to 158 pages. Like all works of the kind, it describes numerous cures obviously due
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for graduate and undergraduate physics students as an overview of quantum mechanics. The book has wider appeal by keeping the equations to the appendices for optional review. The book is divided into five parts starting with the history behind quantum theory, followed by the more recent experiments. "Chapters on consciousness and on the ever-popular many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory form the conclusion." Jim Baggott James Edward Baggott (born 2 March 1957) is a British science writer living in Reading, Berkshire, England who writes about science, philosophy and science history. Baggott is the author of nine books, including "Farewell to Reality:
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Van Nostrand Company, NY 1914 The Boy Electrician by Alfred P. Morgan (1913 copyright) The Boy Electrician is an introduction to electricity and magnetism from a time when you could still build things at home that worked just like commercial gear. The fundamentals haven't changed in all this time, and the experiments and diagrams can be understood by anyone. A First Electrical Book for Boys; Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner Date: [1951] A First Electrical Book for Boys. Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner Date: c1963 First Book of Radio and Electronics / Author: Morgan,
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1751, the infirmary had become famous, particularly for its treatment of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria cases. In 1771, The institution transferred to Castle Street. Wall was also active in the development of nearby Malvern as a spa resort. Together with William Davies, a local apothecary, he commissioned analyses of the well water in the area (from St. Ann's Well, the Holy Well and the chalybeate spring there). The results were eventually published as a 14-page pamphlet in 1756. as ""Experiments and observations on the Malvern Water"". This had a second edition a few years later and a third edition of
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on electricity, on colour, on hydrostatics, etc. – chemistry was his peculiar and favourite study. His first book on the subject was "The Sceptical Chymist", published in 1661, in which he criticised the "experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things." For him chemistry was the science of the composition of substances, not merely an adjunct to the arts of the alchemist or the physician. He endorsed the view of elements as the undecomposable constituents of material bodies; and made the distinction between mixtures and compounds.
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Allen M. Hornblum Allen M. Hornblum is an author, journalist and a former criminal justice official and political organizer based in Philadelphia. He has written seven non-fiction books running the gamut from organized crime and Soviet espionage to medical ethics and sports. His first book, Acres of Skin, published in 1998 detailed unethical human medical experiments at Holmesburg Prison. The publication of "Acres of Skin" attracted considerable international media interest. Subsequently, Hornblum wrote "Sentenced to Science", a book about the experience of an African American inmate in Holmesburg prison. Hornblum's third book on medical ethics, "Against Their Will," co-authored with
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Electricity. There were five English editions, three French editions, and an edition each in German, Italian and Latin. The first three English editions were similar, but not identical, and consisted of two or three parts. Each of these separate parts were printed and sold individually as a pamphlet. Each had a slight title change (i.e. "New", "Supplemental") apparently to promote selling additional copies to people that had bought before. The French translation, published in 1752, contained an experiment suggesting that a long, pointed iron rod would attract a lightning bolt from a thunderstorm cloud. In 1750 Hopkinson suggested to Franklin
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He and faculty member Granger Morgan direct the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. He is the author of the book "Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth," published by the National Geographic Society. His book "Variable Renewable Energy and the Electricity Grid" was published in 2014. He is the author of a large number of technical scientific publications. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1997 and the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering in 2002. His paper with PhD student Adam Newcomer, "Near term implications of a ban on new coal-fired power plants in the US"
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London – donated (in 1746) a Leyden jar battery, a glass tube, and an account of new German experiments in electricity to the Library Company of Philadelphia (founded by Franklin). The account described how to make electricity from the glass tube. Franklin first experimented with static electricity in the middle of 1747, referring to it as "these new wonders." In conducting his initial electrical research, Franklin made use of the unique battery and glass tube provided by Collinson. Thomas Penn, son of William Penn, made an electrostatic machine that supplemented Collinson's equipment. To these Franklin added an electrostatic generating machine
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own variations of Franklin's machine. While replicating the electrical experiments, some unanswered questions prompted Priestly to design additional experiments, leading to additional discoveries. In 1767, he published a 700-page book on his findings called "The History and Present State of Electricity." Eighteenth-century scientific laboratories usually contained some form of hand-operated electrostatic machine. Italian scientist Luigi Galvani had an electrostatic generator in his laboratory, where experiments with frog legs led to the discovery of animal electricity. Another Italian scientist, Alessandro Volta, disagreed with some of Galvani's ideas, and this scientific argument motivated Volta to develop the first frog-free galvanic cell, and
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The Observations The Observations, is the debut novel by Northern Irish author Jane Harris published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007. It was Waterstones book of the month and Faber & Faber's lead debut fiction title for spring 2006 (with its biggest ever initial print run for a first book). It was published in the UK by Faber and Faber, in the US by Penguin, and in Australia/New Zealand by Allen & Unwin. It has been published in the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Germany, Norway, Poland, France, Portugal, Sweden and Brazil. It is
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Roberto di San Vito, an Italian amateur astronomer committed to astrometric observations. He is also a supporter of a new observatory in Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 1998 (). In the "Sources" section of the science fiction novel "", the author, Arthur C. Clarke, jokingly refers to a prediction he made in the first book of the series, "" (published in 1968), of an Asteroid 7794 being discovered by a "lunar observatory" in 1997. This asteroid had a projectile fired at it by the spaceship "Discovery" as it
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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (1774–86) is a six-volume work published by 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley which reports a series of his experiments on "airs" or gases, most notably his discovery of oxygen gas (which he called "dephlogisticated air"). While working as a companion for Lord Shelburne, Priestley had a great deal of free time to engage in scientific investigations. The Earl even set up a laboratory for him. Priestley's experiments during his years in Calne were almost entirely confined to "airs" and from this work emerged his
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observations and published a book of ephemerides for 1557. "De Divina facultate" presented an astrological system where the distances to planets are connected with Plato's solids. Mentions of two other of his book occur in his known writings. Bowden M., "The Scientific revolution in astrology", PhD Dissertation, Yale, 1974 Jofrancus Offusius Jofrancus Offusius (also Ioannes or Johannes Francus Offusius) (c. 1505 – c. 1570), was a German astronomer-astrologer and scholar. Historians of science have become interested in Offusius since he has been identified as the author of a set of annotations appearing on various exemplars of Copernic's book "De Revolutionibus".
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Bessy snoops in Arabella's locked desk and discovers the book Arabella has been writing, "The Observations", a study of the "habits and nature of the Domestic Class." Bessy is incensed to read criticisms of herself in the account, and also learns of Arabella's affection for one of her predecessors, a girl who died under mysterious circumstances. Bessy concocts a revenge that ends up having consequences far more lasting than she ever envisioned … The Observations The Observations, is the debut novel by Northern Irish author Jane Harris published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007.
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them himself. In the process of replicating others' experiments, however, Priestley became intrigued by the still unanswered questions regarding electricity and was prompted to design and undertake his own experiments. Priestley possessed an electrical machine designed by Edward Nairne. With his brother Timothy he designed and constructed his own machines (see Timothy Priestley#Scientific apparatus). The first half of the 700-page book is a history of the study of electricity. It is parted into ten periods, starting with early experiments "prior to those of Mr. Hawkesbee", finishing with variable experiments and discoveries made after Franklin's own experiments. The book takes Franklin's
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the Leyden jar had an accumulation of electrical fire, which he labeled as "positive" ("plus"), and the other side had a deficiency of electrical fire, labeled "negative" ("minus"). These losses and gains of electrification were exactly equal and are essentially the modern law of charge conservation except that it is now recognized that negative charges exist in their own right, not just as a deficiency of positive charges. It is an important principle in modern science that explains the microphysics of the electrification of gross bodies. In these letters, Franklin introduced technical words that we use today for things related
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do magic demonstrations in Boston (1743) and in Philadelphia (1744). He purchased Spencer's equipment and used it for his electricity experiments after these demonstrations were completed. He referred to Spencer as Dr. Spence from Scotland. In 1746, at the age of forty years, Franklin began turning over the affairs of his printing company to his business partner David Hall, and went into semi-retirement so he could carry out research on electricity; initially using Spencer's equipment. Peter Collinson – a wealthy Quaker cloth merchant, a Fellow of the Royal Society and one of the founders of the Society of Antiquaries of
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experiments and publishing galvanian papers in cities such as Turin, Paris, and London. In 1793 he published a 300-page volume in English, titled "Experiments on Animal Electricity" that at the time constituted the most organic analysis of all the problems of galvanism. When Volta renounced the distinction of "animal electricity", something that Galvani who believed in vitalism could not do, Valli stayed true to Galvani and called Volta's electricity of metals "imaginary." Volta, of course, went on to invent the voltaic pile, the progenitor of the battery. Valli also conducted experiments dealing with vaccination, a field in which he was
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prepared and that its author deserves great credit for the pains bestowed on its composition and for much valuable information contained within it" During this period, Sanyal wrote a significant number of popular science articles in his mother tongue of Bengali in the children's magazines of "Sakha" (18 articles in the period 1887 - 1890) and Mukul (18 articles in the period 1895 - 1900). He further followed this up with a second book "Hours with Nature", published in 1896 for a target audience of schoolchildren. Sanyal also published notes based on observations at the zoo in the Journal of
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Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy is a 2016 book written by Tomasz Witkowski. It compares psychology to cargo cults. The author says, "the cargo cult phenomenon is virtually absent in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, yet it runs rampant in both psychology and sociology." The book examines the many problems that plague modern psychological research and psychotherapeutic practice. The author critiques problems in statistical significance, over-generalization of findings from neuroscience, and uncontrolled experiments on humans, and he picks apart a number of questionable practices in the treatment
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made available again at Lulu.com. In 1988 he published "Almost Everything There Is To Know" (), a compilation of his comic strip "The Rudiments of Wisdom," first published in "The Observer". He is also the author of the book "Hunkin's Experiments" (), which describes a variety of science-based pranks, games, and curiosities. Much of both books is freely available online. Tim Hunkin Tim Hunkin (born 1950) is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist living in Suffolk, England. He is best known for creating the Channel Four television series "The Secret Life of Machines", in which he explains the workings
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apparatus and experiments. In 1951 he was invited to join a sub-committee of the S.M.A. which was looking into the feasibility of making it possible to use a particular M.K.S system in school science teaching. The sub-committee's report, which was published in 1954 under the title "The Teaching of Electricity with special reference to the use of M.K.S units", included a large section on experiments and the making of the necessary apparatus. In his preface, the chairman of the sub-committee wrote: "Above all we owe a great debt of gratitude to the late F.A.Meier, who was responsible for the lion’s
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Gaddis published a book of Forteana, titled "Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea." In it he recounted the story of the experiment from the Varo annotations. George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger published a 1978 novel titled "Thin Air." In this book, set in the present day, a Naval Investigative Service officer investigates several threads linking wartime invisibility experiments to a conspiracy involving matter transmission technology. Large-scale popularization of the story came about in 1979 when the author Charles Berlitz, who had written a best selling book on the Bermuda Triangle, and his co-author, ufologist William L. Moore,
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Although the accusation was groundless, the negative publicity was disastrous to the organization. NAMBLA published a book "A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs. NAMBLA", which documented these events. In testimony before the United States Senate, NAMBLA was exonerated from criminal activities; it said, "It is the pedophile with no organized affiliations who is the real threat to children". Mike Echols, the author of "I Know My First Name is Steven", infiltrated NAMBLA and recorded his observations in his book, which was published in 1991. Echols published the names, addresses and telephone numbers of eighty suspected NAMBLA members on his website,
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Electricität in der Arzeneiwissenschaft". From experiments and observations he had seen how electricity could affect the human pulse and perspiration. In the same way he saw how electrical discharges could heal certain neurological disorders. These ideas were later taken up by others and developed into what today is generically called electrotherapy. Based on these ideas and investigations by Kratzenstein there have been speculations that he could have been a model for the fictitious doctor Frankenstein in the book of the same name written by Mary Shelley several decades later. Two years later Kratzenstein wrote the more theoretical work "Theoria electricitatis
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Dave Hamilton (author) David John Hamilton (born 1974) British author, journalist, gardener and forager. Born in Northampton he now lives in Frome, Somerset. His latest book Wild Ruins(Wild Things publishing) documents the history of Britain through some of its lesser known ruins. In June 2015 it reached the top ten on Amazon and was featured in the Daily Mail Online and BBC History Online. His writing career started after his experiments in urban self-sufficiency whilst studying for a BSc in Nutrition and Food Science at Oxford Brookes. The experiments led to his first book 'The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-living
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The list doesn't include any of the several scientific papers, that he also wrote to various journals on the subject (see: List of works by Joseph Priestley). Books from 1772–1790: Books from 1791–1803: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air (1774–86) is a six-volume work published by 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley which reports a series of his experiments on "airs" or gases, most notably his discovery of oxygen gas (which he called "dephlogisticated air"). While working as a companion for Lord Shelburne, Priestley had a great deal of free time
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Appearance of the Electrical Fluid," (Memoirs Am. Acad. Vol. 1, 1785, pp. 257–259); and "Observations on Electricity and an Improved Mode of Constructing Lightning Rods," (Memoirs, Vol. 2, pt. 2, 1804, pp. 96–104). The first paper was written in 1783, and the "curious appearance" described was produced by raising an electrical kite at the time of a thunder shower. The experiments, however, were tried in July, 1771. At that time the author mentions that there stood some lofty trees near his house, and also a shop near by it. His parents, family, and neighbors witnessed the "electrical effect" he succeeded
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the concept that electricity is attracted to points. Franklin then carried the idea a step forward and surmised that a pointed iron rod high above a rooftop would attract a lightning bolt, if the bolt was of electricity. Frenchman Thomas-Francois d'Alibald did the actual experiment May 10, 1752, as Franklin had suggested and lightning struck the iron rod. In London it was repeated in Spital Square on July 20, 1752, and again in Chelmsford, Essex, on August 12, 1752. The electricity attraction from a lightning storm was also done by Franklin himself in the kite experiment that he talked about
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The Sirian Experiments The Sirian Experiments is a 1980 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the third book in her five-book "Canopus in Argos" series and continues the story of Earth's evolution, which has been manipulated from the beginning by advanced extraterrestrial civilisations. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in March 1981 by Jonathan Cape. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981. "The Sirian Experiments" relates directly to the first book in this series, "Shikasta", which is the history of the
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Buffalo ASPCA, in whole series of experiments electrocuting hundreds of stray dogs, experimenting with animals in water, out of water, electrode types and placement, and conduction material, eventually coming up with a repeatable method to euthanize animals via electricity. Fell would conduct a further series experiments, electrocuting anesthetized dissected dogs trying to discern exactly how electricity killed a subject. His observations of the animals lead him to believe death was being caused by the heart stopping instantaneously. His experiments were the closest at the time to figuring out the causes of death by electrocution, although he was unaware of the
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diseases" which contains a chapter on rabies. In this book, he wrote this sentence summarizing his first observations on immunity to rabies: "Rabies virus injected directly into the blood stream is ineffective, at least this is what I found in several experiences where I had injected into the jugular vein of the sheep a large amount of rabid drool". His experiments were published in several articles the following year. Also in 1880, Louis Pasteur became interested in rabies and took note of Galtier's work, regarding him with a certain disdain, stating that these experiments "do not make it possible to
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"Experiments and Observations on Electricity", Cavalli's "Treatise on Electricity" and De la Rive's "Treatise on Electricity". Henry Elles was one of the first people to suggest links between electricity and magnetism. In 1757 he claimed that he had written to the Royal Society in 1755 about the links between electricity and magnetism, asserting that "there are some things in the power of magnetism very similar to those of electricity" but he did "not by any means think them the same". In 1760 he similarly claimed that in 1750 he had been the first "to think how the electric fire may
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to control this disease. Dr. Schlimmer noted his observations in his book, "Schlimmer's Terminology", published in 1874. The first Iranian physician who registered his observations about plague using modern medical science was Mohammad Razi Tabatabai, the senior physician in Naser al-Din Shah's army; his book was published under the title "Plague" in 1875. Dr. Joseph Desire Tholozan, (1820 to 1897), the royal physician of Naser Al-din Shah and the head of the ministry of health at that time, evaluated the main and natural foci of plague in Kurdistan between 1870 and 1882 and found certain foci for the disease in
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in common use as recorded in the medical literature along with Hahnemann's own observations from taking the drugs himself: "The first collection of the effects of medicines ... according to his own observations and those of others was, as is well known, published in the work, Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum, 1805." These were "medicinal substances whose pure pathogenetic action he had ascertained by experiments on himself, his family, and a few friends." The book makes no mention of homeopathy or any theories of cure and makes no claims about their uses. However, it is widely regarded as the forerunner of
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contract. Readers who nominated the book on the final day of its campaign are given a free copy of the e-book when it is published. Submitted manuscripts must be non-published works of 50,000 or more words. Genres accepted are science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance. Once a book has been accepted for a campaign on Kindle Scout, a page for the book is created and the author's 30-day campaign begins. The author submits their work with the title, cover, tag and blurb, plus the entire text of the book. Throughout the 30-day campaign, the author can promote their novel to
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due to be published in Israel, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Croatia, Russia, Turkey.. An audiobook version is available, narrated by the author. There is also a Danish audiobook version. Set in Scotland in 1863, it's narrated by the lively, sharp Bessy Buckley, who leaves Glasgow and happens into a job as a maid at Castle Haivers. Arabella, her mistress, encourages Bessy to write her thoughts and experiences in a journal. She also subjects Bessy to odd experiments, but Bessy goes along with them because she is flattered by the attention and quickly grows attached to her mistress. Things change when
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Demon Seed (novel) Demon Seed is a science fiction-horror novel by American author Dean Koontz, first published in 1973, and completely rewritten and republished in 1997. Though Koontz wrote both versions and they share the same basic plot, the two novels are very different. The earlier version has a dual narrative, with some chapters written from the perspective of Susan, the story's heroine, and others based on the observations of Proteus, the rogue computer that imprisons her. The later version is written entirely from the point of view of Proteus. A film adaptation of the book was released in 1977.
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Lecture Experiments" [Reviewed in Nature 47, 97-98 (1 December 1892)]and "Inorganic Chemistry". He was elected a fellow of the Chemical Society in 1894. "Chemical Lecture Experiments" (one of 5 books by Newth published by Longman, Green & Company of London, England) first appeared in 1892 and is a collection of chemistry lecture experiments all of which the author had tried for himself. This book is hard to find now outside of libraries. Several books of chemical lecture experiments were subsequently published by other authors. An identically titled work by American chemist Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957), was first published in 1901
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conducted a wide range of experiments and observations and the results of these form the framework of the book. He was assisted in this work by his son, Francis Darwin who also wrote a preface for the second edition which was published two years after his father's death in 1882. The book was dedicated to his longtime friend and colleague, Harvard botany professor Asa Gray "as a small tribute of respect and affection". Using the four classifications established by Carl Linnaeus (hermaphroditic, monoecious, dioecious, polygamous), Darwin concentrated on two divisions of the hermaphroditic class, namely the cleistogamic and heterostyled. Darwin’s
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a Miami professorship in physics after it became distinct from the other sciences in the curriculum. Dr. Culler was also the author of several books including: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions of Book of Physiology (1904), First Book in Physics (1905), High School Book of Physics (1906), General Physics for Colleges, Mechanics and Heat (1909), Electricity, Electromagnetic Waves and Sounds (1913), and Physics for College Freshman (1922). Culler is noted for his passion and research into radio and radium, publishing and conducting several experiments on the matter. Culler died on May 18, 1937 from cumulative radium burns sustained during his
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James E. Rogers Jr. James Eugene Rogers Jr. (September 20, 1947 – December 17, 2018) was an American businessman and author. He was president and CEO of Duke Energy, the largest electrical utility in the U.S., from April, 2006 until July 1, 2013. He stayed on as Chairman of the Board until retiring the following December. His book, Lighting the World, which explores the issues involved in bringing electricity to over 1.2 billion people on earth who lack it, was published August 25, 2015 by St. Martin's Press. The book asserts that access to electricity should be recognized as a
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the book when first it was published emphasised its science fiction elements. The science fiction author Brian Aldiss has claimed that he, Kingsley Amis and Arthur C. Clarke served on a science fiction book prize jury at the time which identified "Grimus" as the best candidate for a science fiction book of the year award, but this prize was refused by the publishers who did not want the book to be classified as science fiction for marketing reasons'. Grimus Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie. It was his literary debut. The story loosely follows
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critic. The book was prematurely released online in February 2011. The book received coverage in national media outlets, and was described by the Christian Science Monitor as "depict(ing) Palin as ill-prepared, immature, vindictive, and unethical." Howard Books is a Christian publishing imprint of Simon and Schuster. After the books publication, Bailey appeared on TV talk show "The View", discussing his observations of Palin. Frank Bailey (author) Frank Bailey (born 1970) is a former aide to then Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and the principal author of "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years". He was involved in
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Mullett pointed out that the theory is supported by "numerous experiments and observations [that] have established it most securely". Historian Charles Coulston Gillispie wrote that, although the book contains well researched history on Darwin, it is a book that is hostile to science. According to Gillispie, "her scientific discussion of the status of the theory of natural selection is simply incorrect". Anthropologist Neil Tappen has written: Himmelfarb makes her greatest effort in discussing Darwin's theory of natural selection and arguing against its validity. Here she is at her very worst; her lack of thorough grounding in modern biology becomes painfully
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most important scientific texts: the six volumes of "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air". These experiments helped repudiate the last vestiges of the theory of four elements; as one early biographer writes: "taken collectively, [Priestley] did more than those of any one of his contemporaries to uproot and destroy the only generalisation by which his immediate predecessors had sought to group and connect the phenomena of chemistry", however "he was wholly unable to perceive this fact." Priestley's work on "airs" is not easily classified. As historian of science Simon Schaffer points out, it "has been seen as a
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Victor A. Reko Viktor Aloisius Reko, (born August 3, 1880 in Vienna) was an Austrian teacher and scientific author who moved to Mexico in 1921. He is best known for his popular book "Magische Gifte: Rausch- und Betäubungsmittel der Neuen Welt" (""Magic Poisons: Inebriating and Narcotic Substances of the New World""), first published in 1936. This book recorded a number of second-hand observations on New World psychoactive drugs, paraphrased from notes he took of conversations with his cousin, the eminent Mexican ethnobotanist Dr. Blas Pablo Reko, including the first published refutation of Dr. William Edwin Safford's uncharacteristically untenable assertion that
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electrical matter between charged bodies. Nollet’s theory at first gained wide acceptance, but met resistance in 1752 with the translation of Franklin’s "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" into French. Franklin and Nollet debated the nature of electricity, with Franklin supporting action at a distance and two qualitatively opposing types of electricity, and Nollet advocating mechanical action and a single type of electrical fluid. Franklin's argument eventually won and Nollet’s theory was abandoned. In 1748, Nollet invented one of the first electrometers, the electroscope, which showed electric charge using electrostatic attraction and repulsion. Nollet is reputed to be the first to
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Thomas Amory (author) Thomas Amory (1691(?) – 25 November 1788) was a writer of Irish descent. In 1755 he published "Memoirs containing the lives of several ladies of Great Britain, a History of Antiquities and Observations on the Christian Religion", which was followed by the "Life of John Buncle, Esq." (Vol. I, 1756, and Vol. II, 1766), practically a continuation. The contents of these works are miscellaneous—philology, natural science, theology, and much besides, treated without any system, but with occasional originality and felicity of diction. The author, who was a renowned eccentric, had a peculiar aspect, with the manner of
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Lauren Slater Lauren Slater (born March 21, 1963) is an American psychologist and writer. She is the author of nine books, including "Welcome To My Country" (1996), "Prozac Diary" (1998), and "Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir" (2000). Her 2004 book "Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century", a description of psychology experiments "narrated as stories", has drawn both praise and criticism. It was nominated for a "Los Angeles Times" "Kirsch" award for science and technology writing, and was named as a 2005 "Bild Der Wissenschaft" book of the year in Germany. Criticism has focused on Slater's research methods
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Franklin's friend Benjamin Loxley, a Philadelphia carpenter who made similar machines for Lewis Evans in 1751. The glass globes, known as "electerizing globes", were made of glass that was scientifically designed to produce static electricity effectively. Franklin specified the materials to be used in the glass formula, and the globes were manufactured by Caspar Wistar, a close associate of Franklin. Wistarburgh Glass Works also made scientific glass for the Leyden jars Franklin used in the 1750s. Franklin's experiments with Leyden jars progressed to connecting several Leyden jars together in a series, with "one hanging on the tail of the other".
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support in designing and implementing controlled experiments to assess policy effectiveness. Professor Duch's research focuses on responsibility attribution, incorporating elements of theory, experiments and analysis of public opinion. In 2008 he published an award-winning book, "The Economic Vote", that demonstrates that citizens hold political parties accountable for economic outcomes. More recently Professor Duch has turned to experiments in order to identify the information shortcuts that individuals deploy for attributing responsibility for collective decision making. Duch is associate editor of the "Journal of Experimental Political Science" and the "American Journal of Political Science" since 2012. 1994). (with Michaell Taylor). Ray Duch
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two-page introduction entitled "Extreme Science Fiction" by Mike Ashley, on the theme of the anthology. The stories were originally published from 1909, for "The New Humans" by B. Vallance, to 2003, plus three stories that are published for the first time in this book. One author is represented twice in the collection: Jerry Oltion. The stories are as follows, along with their dates of original publication. The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction is a science fiction anthology edited by Mike Ashley, originally published in 2006 in the United Kingdom by Robinson, an
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observations of Peake's "Gormenghast", and Delany's "Nevèrÿon", The work's "baroque architectur[e] ... and distorted perspectives" reminded him of Bosch, Esher and Miller. Jeffery said "City of the Iron Fish" "is as often disconcerting as it is both funny and occasionally horrifying". City of the Iron Fish City of the Iron Fish is a fantasy novel by English science fiction and fantasy author Simon Ings. It was first published in July 1994 in the United Kingdom as a paperback original by HarperCollins. The book is about an isolated City bounded by nothing that transforms itself every 20 years through magic evoking
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received the highest marks of his group. Pratchett had his writing breakthrough in 1968 when he interviewed Peter Bander van Duren, co-director of a small publishing company, Colin Smythe Ltd. During the meeting, Pratchett mentioned he had written a manuscript, "The Carpet People". Colin Smythe Ltd published the book in 1971, with illustrations by the author. The book received strong, if few, reviews and was followed by the science fiction novels "The Dark Side of the Sun" (10 May 1976) and "Strata" (15 June 1981). After various positions in journalism, in 1980 Pratchett became Press Officer for the Central Electricity
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Otterden Otterden is a civil parish and village on the Kent Downs in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. Otterden is mentioned in the Domesday Book under Kent in the lands belonging to Adam FitzHubert. The book which was written in 1086 said: Otterden has an important place in the history of science: Stephen Gray and Granville Wheler carried out their seminal experiments showing that electricity can be conducted over long distances at Wheler's estate there in 1729. From 1933 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1948, Otterden was the home of the Bunce Court School, founded by Anna
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Essinger when she closed her German boarding school after the Nazi Party seized power and moved her school to England. Otterden Otterden is a civil parish and village on the Kent Downs in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. Otterden is mentioned in the Domesday Book under Kent in the lands belonging to Adam FitzHubert. The book which was written in 1086 said: Otterden has an important place in the history of science: Stephen Gray and Granville Wheler carried out their seminal experiments showing that electricity can be conducted over long distances at Wheler's estate there in 1729. From
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David G. Iadevaia David G. Iadevaia was born in Providence, Rhode Island on 7 September 1949. He retired in 2013 as professor of astronomy and physics from Pima College - East Campus in Tucson, Arizona. He has been at Pima since his hire in 1983. He is also the author of a science fiction novel "Of Stranger Things" as well as author of various articles about science education. He established the first online astronomy course with real time telescope observations. This was published in T.H.E. Journal, January 1999. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society a member of
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an inter-disciplinary approach connecting political science with sociology, economics, history, biology, and ecology. The narrative is structured as a travelogue as the author travels to meet experts and construct his theory. His observations along the way illustrate the concepts he is explaining and supplement interviews and research. Collecting pieces of his theory from each of his interviews and destinations appears as a recurring metaphor. He includes anecdotes and social commentary. The book was published in September 2000 as a hardcover, and Homer-Dixon shortly after began a 10-city tour across Canada with stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, London, Winnipeg, Calgary,
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