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The Renaissance of Science: The Story of the Atom, Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics

By: Dr. Albert Martini

...This book presents the fundamental scientific developments in mathematics, physics and astronomy from the Classic Greek Era to the present time. It discusses and illustrates the 2,000-year history in the development of the great ideas, concepts and laws that revolutionized our scientific world. It also em...

...TABLE OF CONTENTS THE STORY OF THE ATOM MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS OF OUR UNIVERSE 9 OUR MIND AND ITS ADVENTURE INTO THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE 12 MATTER - ENERGY - SPACE - TIME 14 WHAT IS MATTER ? 16 WHAT IS E...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...d, “There is no way out from here, we must do some- thing!” The language they spoke was an ancient one. “We have no chance to escape,” another said, ... ... serious work to do and if we don’t speed things up, we’re toast. Dustimaine wants those ancient tools that were found yesterday to be cleaned and c... ... leading down into it. It was not far from a much larger site where he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own effor... ...nowledge and so long ago,” Alex said. “Written language, construction of the Sphinx-lion, astronomy, metallurgy and yet…we have known nothing of the... ...t Mitch. “Could the name Pharos be a derivative of the earlier word Pharom? Pharos is the Greek word for lighthouse.” “It has to be, it’s too close....

...ow the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. ...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...rs of the generation, and they pretend to know the difference between the ancient books and tell which of them is worthy of study and which is not, s... ...ely by the order of the worlds and the Sefirot. Similarly, the science of astronomy is arranged by that same order, and so is the science of music, ... ...arily extend by way of cause and consequence, by the same laws we find in astronomy and physics, meaning constant, unbreakable laws that necessarily... ...he spiritual can beget and extend anything corporeal. This question is an ancient philosophical query that much ink has been spilt attempting to res... ...hat they have stolen the upper shell of their wisdom, which Plato and his Greek predecessors had acquired while studying with the disciples of the p... ...ook of Zohar, as the power of engaging in the holy book is known from our ancient sages. –The Holy Rav of Ziditshov, Sur MeRa (Depart from Evil), p 4...

...tal question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on a day-to-day basis. Additionally, clear illustrations accurately depict the evolution of the Upper Worlds as Kabbalists experience them....

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ... live on bread alone but on bread and…. Beauty”. A.M. PART ONE The Greek gods nourished themselves with nectar and ambrosia and I am firmly ... ...rstand the structure of the universe. We could have done so by using radio astronomy. The answer that I consider the best is that light is necessa... ...dered objects we can work with creatively. In Cosmo-Art, we face our most ancient traumas and most terrible conflicts so we can transform them into...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...nd the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as S... ...the whole earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of r... ...ered its great weight and value, as an all-sufficient argument for the orthodoxy of the ancient system, and the heterodoxy of the commonly received ... ... proved burdensome to him, he left it, to dedicate himself exclusively to geography and astronomy; in which sciences he could not make great progres... ...be at all compared to him. His book is the finest demonstration of the orthodoxy of the ancient system of the millenarians which can be imagined; in... ...me of certain combinations of matter or proceedings of man. The only perfect science is astronomy, and its perfection consisteth in this, that there ... ...al authority; bringing in his behalf the authority of St. Chrysostom, Origen, and other Greek fathers, who had been of his opinion: to which St. Aug... ...; I ask this explanation of the most celebrated philosophers and astronomers, Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, and Latin. I see the vain efforts which they...

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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...mation desired. They also made use of Aramaic, which was a spoken language in ancient Persia. The Book of Zohar also uses foreign (Greek) words that ... ... was a spoken language in ancient Persia. The Book of Zohar also uses foreign (Greek) words that were used very freely in Israel, so we, like the Kab... ...ou will see that it is written in Aramaic. Aramaic was the spoken language in ancient Persia and the everyday lan- guage of Mesopotamia. Therefore, t... ...he language that was then the most prevalent. At that time, Israel was under Greek occupation, which is why there are quite a few Greek words in th... ...e, even though the writers of the Kabbalah wrote in Ara- maic, Hebrew and some Greek. There are also Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the ... ...are also Kabbalah books in Arabic, and Kabbalists in the middle ages wrote in ancient French. Again, a language is only an outer dressing to help con... ...rces. The reflection of the Upper World in ours creates various fields called Astronomy, Astrology, Psychology, Medicine, etc. That is why the scien...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...s for right?” Vincent asked. Lexi looked up, “Yeah, Hera was a Goddess in Greek mythol- ogy.” “Not just any Goddess, she was the wife of Zeus. She wa... ...omeda is an inter- esting name.” “It’s a galaxy. My dad was a professor of Astronomy. He’s the one who named me. Not really an overly exciting story,... ...hing big. Lord Zodiac is modeling himself afer the Pharaohs and rulers of ancient times. He wants to show that he commands the resources to surpass ... ...side hallways that reminded them of old documentaries on the discovery of Ancient Egyptian tombs. They didn’t leave the entry area. A man in army fa...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e... ...west. Much was expected of Pytheas, who was distinguished for his knowledge of astronomy and who was first to ascertain the moon's influence on the ea... ...had the leisure to prosecute with great diligence the study of mathematics and astronomy, in which he was to soon after win great renown. He was prese...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...co Melzi. Head of Christ. Disciples. Series of Last Supper drawings. Astronomy: distance of sun and earth. Anatomy: 60 drawings— Muscles...

...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...lege, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H.—College, Geology 1. Go... ...ry 1, Economics 2, Eng- lish 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wedn... ...ill read a paper on "A Classical Scholar of the Nineteenth Cen- tury." The astronomy 2 classes cT>m- menoed outdoor work last Thurs- day. - . A. D. BA... ...y a (lance. Prof. Hewitt gave an IlluatrHfed lecture before the classes in Greek 1 Thursday evening on Homeric subjects. Hanson '09, because of inelig... ... an educator, his rank is high. He took the broader view that the study of ancient languages should have as its purpose the enlarge- ment of the stude... ...a language, and held to the rather questionable doctrine that the study of ancient Greek should be approached through modern Romaic. He adopted a tuto... ...es, interest in the subject being revived after the lOfh century A. D. The ancients wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, thoug... ...team, and the weather. The first two we are sure of, and it rests with the Astronomy depart- ment to give us the latter. All the same, Mother Nature i... ...xposition. During the summer Prof. Milham will prepare his new syllabus of Astronomy 2. Mr. Morgan will spend the first part of the summer in Williams...

...ble database of articles stretching back to 1998 on its website. The student yearbook is called The Gulielmensian, which means "Williams Thing" in Greek.[52] It was published irregularly in the 1990s, but has been annual for the past several years and dates back to the mid-...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE FOR ASTRONOMY ALGAE FOR FUEL UNDERWATER EXPLORATION 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUS... ...me to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more informatio... ...Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Science Into Practical... ...KY, OCEAN & EARTH SCIENCES University of Hawai‘i For inquiries regarding astronomy, ocean and earth sciences and space programs. MEDIA CONTACT: Di... ...d around the world. ASTRONOMY World’s best place to study the Universe In ancient times, Polynesian voyagers used navigational knowledge they gaine... ... matter just outside the Milky Way containing about a thousand small and ancient stars. With the greatest collection of ground-based telescopes on ... ...H for Planck’s Constant, multiplied by its frequency, represented by the Greek letter NU, so that HNU describes “the energy of light.” A unit of p...

...g from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Me...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...ce  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astronomy—math applied to heavenly time and space. (Professor Hart notes...

...contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scan...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...antism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Re- formed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, Anabaptist, Seventh- Day Adventists, the Esta... ... McKinley, president of the United States; B. L. Gildersleeve, professor of Greek (see 42); Ferdinand W. Peck, commis- sioner-general to the Paris E... ... meaning otherwise would be ambiguous: the Fathers, the early Fathers, the Greek Fathers, [Pilgrim Fathers], the Reformers (but: the church reforme... ...i &t nithde Aarhundrede; Geschiedenis &r Nederlandsche Taal. 38. Titles of ancient manuscripts (singular, MS; plural, MSS) : Codex Bezae, Vatican ... ...talics 23 Books of the Bible, both canonical and apocryphal, and titles of ancient manuscripts, should be set in roman type (see 27 and 38). 53. T... ...utwlsal Antiquities, p. 199. 1 G. L. Hendrickson "Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style," Am. Jour. Phil. XXV (~gog), pp. 25c-75. 3... ...on. 26. -. Solar system, capitalization of names of bodies in, in works on astronomy, 41. "Solid," detined, 258. Spaces: different sire3 of, expla...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bu... ...ce even Philosophie, Grammar, Rhethorike, Logike, Arithmetike, Geometrie, Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Gr... ..., Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Greekes: and the Greekes drew their baptizing water from the conduit-pipes... ...o, Aristotle and many; or of purpose, as all since havemade most know the Greeke, and almost the Latinr, even translated their whole treatises? Why ... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...ce  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astronomy—math applied to heavenly time and space. (Professor Hart notes...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...t that every equation ever used in mathematics, in technology, in Physics, in Astronomy, in Biology, in Particle Physics is wrong… They will have to... ...ESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 440 Astronomy… all of the supposed field research of nearly all Science is.... ...olves around the Earth. If Galileo had never discovered the relative facts of Astronomy, we humans would never have despoiled the Earth we live on w...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab rel... ...Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner... ...irect progenitor of modern day Judaism. 13. For the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress P... ...opment of sci- ence, particularly the areas devoted to microphysics and to astronomy, there is a companion interest (it cannot at this stage be called...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ...ms that as people become more aware of some of the sciences, particularly astronomy, biology and geology, and as they try to fit their scriptural bel... ...he first are the empirical scientists, especially those in astro-physics, astronomy and biology. They see both the order and the disorder in the uni... ...ogists. ―Of course physics and chemistry are much more verifiable. Astronomy has many aspects that are exactly measurable. Geology has a larg...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...the way for our generation. His writings enable all of us to con- nect to the ancient, authentic sources that the past giants left behind. The Kabba... ...ct humanity was Abraham. He was one of many peo- ple who lived in Mesopotamia (ancient Persia), and in those days there was no division into nations.... ...- til a time when all of humanity would need it. Today, we must re- kindle the ancient science, revive the study of Kabbalah, discover the Upper Real... ...eed to erect any defenses. Science refers to that state as “homeostasis.” The Greek word, homo, means same or similar, and stasis is Greek for condi... ...cording to the order of the worlds and the Sefirot. Similarly, the science of astronomy is arranged by the same order, and so it is with music and s... ...lassics scholar and an expert in the ancient languages and traditions (Latin, Greek, and Hebrew) was affiliated with the heads of the Platonic Acade... ...e father of philosophy, did nevertheless not receive those teachings from the Greeks, but rather he received them from the Jews. Therefore he must ... ...y of worlds, in which he rejected the traditional geocentric (Earth-centered) astronomy and intuitively went beyond the Copernican heliocentric (Sun...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...‟t mean being eternally youthful. It reminds me of Homer‟s recounting the Greek myth of the Trojan Tithonus who was granted eternal life by Zeus. He... ...s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that don‟t make sense today. For example, the words of Menc... ...n‟t like change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.... ... change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And t... ...tual, practical and recreational activities. Children could learn sports, astronomy, tailoring, advanced mathematics, dance, and scores of other past... ...a partnership or a marriage as indentured servitude, slavery or any other ancient arrangement. So there‟s no reason to pay somebody who voluntarily ...

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