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  • 21Romanticism in science — Romanticism, also known as the “Age of Reflexion,” describes the intellectual movement from 1800 1840 that originated in Western Europe as a counter movement to the Enlightenment of the late 18th century. Romanticism incorporated many fields of… …

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  • 22Creation science — or scientific creationism is a movement within creationism which attempts to use scientific means to disprove the accepted scientific theories on the history of the Earth, cosmology and biological evolution and prove the Genesis account of… …

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  • 23Concurrency (computer science) — The Dining Philosophers , a classic problem involving concurrency and shared resources In computer science, concurrency is a property of systems in which several computations are executing simultaneously, and potentially interacting with each… …

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  • 24natural science — Science Sci ence, n. [F., fr. L. scientia, fr. sciens, entis, p. pr. of scire to know. Cf. {Conscience}, {Conscious}, {Nice}.] 1. Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. [1913 Webster] If we conceive God s sight …

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  • 25physical science — Science Sci ence, n. [F., fr. L. scientia, fr. sciens, entis, p. pr. of scire to know. Cf. {Conscience}, {Conscious}, {Nice}.] 1. Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. [1913 Webster] If we conceive God s sight …

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  • 26Meditations on First Philosophy — First Meditation redirects here. For the jazz album, see First Meditations. The title page of the Meditations …

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  • 27Whewell’s philosophy of science and ethics — Struan Jacobs ON SCIENCE Introduction Among the most prodigious of English minds of the nineteenth century, William Whewell (1794–1866) was at various times, and among other things, philosopher, intellectual historian, scientist, educationist,… …

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  • 28History of science — History of science …

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  • 29History of science in Classical Antiquity — The history of science in Classical Antiquity begins with the search for practical knowledge. In Antiquity, the inquiry into the workings of the universe took place both in investigations aimed at such practical goals as establishing a reliable… …

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  • 30physical science — physical scientist. 1. any of the natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, and astronomy. 2. these sciences collectively. [1835 45] * * * Introduction       the systematic study of the inorganic world …

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