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prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not have enough money for the studies of the youngest son, who graduated from the secondary school in 1761 with the opinion of one of the [...] Lichtenberg, helped Georg by giving him the scholarship (200 Guilders per year) and allowing him to study “abroad”, which means in Göttingen. The University of Göttingen, established in 1734 by the elector [...] Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg. A year after he had come to Göttingen, his mother died, and his small
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just demonstrate that the machine was inefficient from the economic point of view. However, this study had raised his attention to a certain aspect of a well-known principle: The conversion of mechanical [...] had already heard of him, Thomson was a newly appointed professor of physics in Glasgow, he had studied in Cambridge and afterwards worked with the French Victor Regnault, the leading experimentalist in
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ses applica- tions industrielles. Paris. Olson RG (1970) Count Rumford, Sir John Leslie, and the Study of the Nature and Propagation of Heat at the Begin- ning of the Nineteenth Century. In: Annals of [...] Mechanical Value of Heat: Instruments of Precision and Gestures of Accuracy in Early Victorian England. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 26, 73 - 106. Sichau C (2000): Die Joule-Thomson-Experimente: [...] eines Experiments. In: NTM 8:223-243. Smith C & Wise MN (1989): Energy and Empire: ¬A bio- graphical study of Lord Kelvin (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge - New York - Port Chester - Melbourne – Sydney
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ths high school, Irene Curie started her studies at the faculty of the Sciences at the University of Paris. In the middle of 1916, she interrupted her studies, because she enrolled in the radiology service [...] of lives of wounded soldiers. At the same time Irene started to study at the university, physics, of course. After completing her studies she be- came one of the research assistants at her mother’s institute [...] radiology nurse in ambulances, helping the injured people. After the war, in 1918, she restarted her studies. Shortly after that, she agreed on the post of the laboratory technician in the Radium Institute
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collaborat- ed with him to examine heat changes when gases expand and contract. Results of these studies paved the way for the development of the refriger- ator. Their first joint research was on the thermal
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Heilbron, J. L. (1981). Historical studies in the theory of atomic structure. New York: Arno Press. Holton, G. J. (1978). The scientific imagination: case studies. Cambridge [Eng.]; New York: Cambridge
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gender up to the 19th century. Not by chance most of the abovementioned scholars were physicians. The study of medi- cine was the only academic discipline, provid- ing an understanding of nature and natural [...] from the Americas. Therefore it was possible for her to go to Surinam the Dutsch colony in America. Studying the butterflies and their metamor- phosis was the main reason for this journey, on which she was
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years until today. 4. Underline in the text the innovative contribution of the Sibylla’s book for the study of the insects in correlation with other similar books of this time. 5. Underline in the texts the [...] science in the Baroque Era. 7. Write the reasons which contributed to the progress of the biological studies in the Baroque Era. 8. Describe the characteristics of Nature of Science, based on the narration
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from the Americas. Therefore it was possible for her to go to Surinam the Dutsch colony in America. Studying the butterflies and their metamorphosis was the main reason for this journey, on which she was
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artist - a painter, engraver and publisher. She is considered as one of the first entomologists, studying the metamorphosis of insects. She described a cycles of 186 species of insects and was a pioneer [...] were created from dirt and mud. Her observations started in 1660 in Frankfurt. At 13, she started to study the metamorphosis of insects, for example, the development of silkworms fed with the leaves of mulberry [...] and lettuce. In the preface to Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium she writes: From my youth, study of insects occupied me constantly. At first they were silkworms in my hometown, Frankfurt am Main