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Rumford’s work with re- spect to energy conservation, the importance of Lavoisier's work lies not in the fact that his system can be seen as the accepted theory – and actually Rumford’s work did not change [...] became familiar with the work of Victor Regnault and Sadi Carnot. The latter had demon- strated that the work of a steam engine is depend- ing on the temperature difference, thus the work was not equivalent [...] responsi- ble for establishing his work, but also William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Yet, Joule himself did not start from scratch and par- ticularly referred to the work of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count
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a job working as a geolo- gist in the Alsace-Lorraine. On May 18, 1768, at the age of twenty-four, he was chosen to become a member of French Academy of Science. In the following year, he worked on the [...] servation of mass and discovered that hydrogen, in combination with ox- ygen, produces water. His work was characterized by organizational skills, abundance of good ideas, universality, and modernism. [...] acquired a license to run a solicitor practice. It was likely due to his studies in Law that his works were so well written, with their meanings always easily comprehensible, clear, well-defined, and fully
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person at rest and second with a person at work We found that the person at work produces more carbon dioxide than the other at rest, which means that the person at work uses more oxygen in respiration and dur- [...] circumstances that the person was subjected to. Firstly the person was at rest, and secondly he/she was at work”. Lavoisier started to refer to his inferences from the experiment. “I assumed that the purpose of
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Biography: Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford Student’s Learning Activities (Lavoisier and respiration) 1 Storytelling Teaching Model: http://science-story-telling.eu Student’s Learning Activities (
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in order to work with Rutherford. 2 Ernest’s Nuclear Atom Storytelling Teaching Model: http://science-story-telling.eu “I think that is a good idea, provided that Ernest is willing to work at the arduous [...] received his first science book at the age of ten, he was hooked; nevertheless, he still had to keep working at the farm chores. He was very studious and managed to obtain university scholarships. Throughout [...] his university days in New Zealand, he studied and invented high-frequency electrical circuits and worked with radio waves. After he graduated with his Master’s degree, he looked for a job as a school teacher
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t of the atomic theory because the original works of Leucippus and Democritus were lost and are known only through Aristotle’s criticism. Aristotle’s works were kept and expanded in the Is- lamic culture [...] cide in September of 1906. The atom gets a substructure Even before Einstein’s and Smoluchowski’s work helped to establish a consensus about the accuracy of the atomic description of matter, some researchers [...] actually contradicted the initial understanding of the atom as being indivisi- ble. In fact, Faraday’s work on electrolysis from the 1830s could have raised questions about the fundamen- tal and indivisible
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child of twelve born to James and Martha Rutherford. His father worked making wheels for carts, and as an engineer. Later, his father worked as a flax-miller. In contrast, his mother was an English teacher [...] was very important to his par- ents. James Rutherford’s work was also very im- portant to the development of his son’s personality. His father’s work required the family to move quite often. In 1876, James [...] had a reputation as being an outstanding researcher and innovator working at the forefront of electrical technology. He chose to work with Professor Jo- seph John Thomson at Cambridge University’s Cavendish
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draw. Initially that had been a problem, as her mother didn’t want her to spend hours and hours working on her pictures. Only when her stepfather, who was a painter himself, praised her pictures and said [...] stepfather had told her he would be able to use the picture as a sample for a book he was currently working on. As a reward he wanted to visit a silkworm farm with her, so she could take a look at the animals [...] caterpillars and butterflies at the age of thirteen. Nineteen years later the first volume of her work “The caterpillars’ wonderful transformation and curious flower nutrition” was released, in which she
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today perceived as masterpieces, are collectible and admired around the world. Her most important work, Insectorum Surinamensium Metamorphosis (1705) is considered as one of the finest natural history [...] than she painter, Johann Andreas Graff, another stepfather's student, who later specialized in the works of painting and engraving of architectural objects. Until 1670, the couple lived in Frankfurt, where [...] colorized by the author was a new phenomenon at that time. Nuremberg luminary Arnold Chistopher named her work as "a magnificent" … In 1681, her stepfather Marrel died, and Maria Sybilla moved from Nuremberg to
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Thomas Penny. Gesner and Wotton died al- ready in the middle of the 16th century. This means that the work of 1634 contained infor- mation that was gained some generations ear- lier. This can be taken as [...] holometabolic insects. By the middle of the 17th century one can find an increasing number of published works on in- sects. To give an example, Jan Swammerdam, a Dutch scholar, wrote in 1669 his ‘Historia Insectorum [...] showed, that insects only appeared where insects before laid their eggs. Figure 2: Titlepage of Moffets work. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theater_of_Insec ts.jpg , accessed: 06-03-2013 http://en