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... X 1023 ATOMS/MOLE)(TOTAL N0 OF MOLES) ENERGY OF THE ATOM CALCULATED FROM THE CHEMISTRY POINT OF VIEW THE GREATEST FUNDAMENTAL INVENTIONS CREATED BY MOTHER NATURE THE ATOM AND ITS CAPACITY TO STORE AND RELEASE UNIVERSAL ENERGY BY MEANS OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES THE CELL AND ITS CAPACITY TO SUSTAIN INDEPENDENT LIFE BY MEANS OF UN...

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...RANCISCUS VIETA (1540 - 1603) - FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN. 92 SIMON STEVINUS (1548 - 1620) BELGIAN-DUTCH MATHEMATICIAN 92 JOHN NAPIER (1550 - 1617) - SCOTTISH MATHEMATICIAN 93 HENRY BRIGGS (1561 - 1630) - ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN 94 WILLIAM OUGHTRED (1574 - 1660) ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN 96 BLAISE PASCAL (1623 - 1662) - FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN 97 THE MATHEMATICS OF THE SCI...

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...t have been in Europe; the moun- tain forms behind modelled in little from the Alps, and the forest which clustered on their ramparts a growth no more... ...s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mostly French... ...own 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a ruinous wall encloses the cemetery of the ... ...tary, or at least for silent, inmates. Here it is that Mr. M’Callum, with a Shakespeare and a Burns, enjoys the society of the break- ers. His name an... ...ank rum behind a door. But there were others thoroughly consistent. I said the virtues of the race were bourgeois and puritan; and how bourgeois is th... ... South Seas, that which I saw in Butaritari stands easily the first. The Hula, as it may be viewed by the speedy globe-trotter in Honolulu, is surely ... ...uery, Reuben?—promoted on my last visit to the greater dignity of governor, is daily present, altering, extending, embel- lishing, pursuing the endles...

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...eserved all down the length of the nave by the tall, towering forms of the Scottish archers, in their rich accoutrements, many of them gallant gentlem... ...wished they had been younger and more fash- ionable, instead of a poor old Scottish cavalier and his wife, my mother’s old contemporary Madame de Deli... ...Sir Andrew Macniven, who had made his way through the mob like a brave old Scottish knight, brought us word that he could assure us that our own Queen... ... should be obtained by merit, never bought and sold, and many of them were inventions of the Court for the express purpose of sale. The great Cardinal... ...brother in, for indeed he was hardly fit to walk downstairs. Presently the Scottish knight knocked at the door, and de- sired to speak with me. ‘What ...

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...kens 131 for the immense number of models it contains are the accumulated inventions of only five years; the whole of the previous collection having ... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ...

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...awdon Crawley, that the mere truth was enough to condemn him, and that all inventions of scandal were quite superfluous pains on his friends’ parts. R... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen... ... vanish or are replaced by the tenets and postulates of a new discipline - but the inventions, processes and practical know-how do not evaporate. T... ...various aspects of the old discipline, mainly its intellectual property (writings, inventions, other theoretical material). This replication does n...

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...ons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...ed, harassed, intimidated, squelched, threatened, sabotaged, and all of their inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and ... ...verything, all fighting and bickering over who-owns-what, and who-owns-who. Inventions that are too good are never developed because the only ones ... ...rons stealing patents from creative inventors who were legally robbed of their inventions. Today there are no individuals who invent anything new a... ...ed, harassed, intimidated, squelched, threatened, sabotaged, and all of their inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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... he afterwards married, and Mr. Taylor, who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions, and his success in trade, acquired an immense fortune. But the ... ...Tom being thus suddenly dragged into ludicrous notice in pres- ence of the Scottish Doctors, to whom he was ambitious of appearing to advantage, was g... ...they come to it; and certainly, a man who con- quers nineteen parts of the Scottish accent, may conquer the twentieth. But, Sir, when a man has got th... ...mith at General Paoli’s. I spoke of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only...

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...rs go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the Unite... ... these very Gifford lectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish reli- gious philosophers.[52] [52] The Cairds, for example. In Edw... ...o previous model. In Chicago to-day we have the case of Dr. J. A. Dowie, a Scottish Baptist preacher, whose weekly “Leaves of Healing” were in the yea... ...e sees that order and disorder, as we now recognize them, are purely human inventions. We are interested in certain types of arrangement, useful, aest... ...cted with his conduct. It seems to me to be the chief glory of English and Scottish thinkers to have kept the organic connection in view. The guid- in... ...ose of this new logic. Let me quote in illustration some passages from the Scottish transcendentalist whom I have already named. “How are we to concei...

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...f England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking ...

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...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...arates him further from the bulk of his compatriots. At an earlier age the Scottish lad begins his greatly different experience of crowded class-rooms... ...y gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless br... ... of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remar... ...rticularly to Thomas Stevenson from the great number and importance of his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Gove...

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...cist 51 ALESSANDRO VOLTA (1745 - 1827) Italian Physicist 53 MICHAEL FARADAY (1791 - 1867) English Physicist 53 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831 - 1879) Scottish Mathematician and Physicist 54 JOSEPH HENRY (1797 - 1878) American Physicist 54 THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931) American Inventor 54 NIKOLA TESLA (1856 -1943) American Electrical Engineer 55 SAMUEL MORSE (1791 -...