Search by term, person or webpage number

hatched from other type of larvaes. This encouraged me to collect all the caterpillars that I could find, in order to study their metamorphosis and develop my painting skills, so that I could sketch them [...] Maria Sibylla continued the study the life cycle of butterflies. Conducted observations of insects, finding and sketching of caterpillars in the garden, bringing them to her laboratory to feed them with the [...] ……………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………… Activity 4 Please research in the internet to find proper websites about the story of the production of silk from the ancient years until today. Write

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

with this issue. However, Rumford published 1 The background of these experiments was the idea to find out which part of the (visible) spectrum might affect lenses in a telescope in the most significant [...] energy dis- sipation (and in this respect entropy) had been developed, both Joule’s and Carnot’s findings were no longer in contradiction. In some sense, this contradiction together with the growing ac- [...] is relevant for the acceptance of Joule’s work in the British scientific community: Ignoring his findings may in part be explained by the fact that Joule was a brewery owner in Man- chester. Even though

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Mouchot and the solar cooker

model of Rutherford with the atomic model of Democritus. 1. Find and write the differences and similarities between the two atomic models. 2. Find and write the differences between the philosophical and [...] and Physical Sci- ence (specifically Electricity and Magnetism). After graduation, he had problems finding a permanent job. He applied to be a school teacher, but after multiple failed attempts to obtain [...] /rutherford-scattering and download the relevant application. Activate it and study it carefully. Find the controls with which you can choose a model of the atom. Make visible the orbit and amend the energy

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom

with this issue. However, Rumford published 1 The background of these experiments was the idea to find out which part of the (visible) spectrum might affect lenses in a telescope in the most significant [...] energy dis- sipation (and in this respect entropy) had been developed, both Joule’s and Carnot’s findings were no longer in contradiction. In some sense, this contradiction together with the growing ac- [...] is relevant for the acceptance of Joule’s work in the British scientific community: Ignoring his findings may in part be explained by the fact that Joule was a brewery owner in Man- chester. Even though

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Rumford and calorics

increase the budget of the Bavarian army while increasing the number of troops and their wages, he had to find a means to re- duce costs. The first measure was to lower the costs of the soldiers’ uniforms by employing [...] part, based on experi- ments Santorio conducted on himself. On the opening page of his book, one finds an illustration of the ex- help with minor tasks if they wanted to do so (see Redlich 1971, pp. 184 [...] perspiration. Additionally, he invented measurement devices to determine pulse and body temperature. His findings are the first results from a long-term study on human metabolism. Energy in Combustion Whereas Santorio

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration

became a member of the Philosophical and Medical Society of Edinburgh. But his important scientific findings he published in 1753 in his classic work A Treatise on the Scurvy and dedicated it to Lord Anson [...] this photo we can see the cover of the History of Medicine book. Please observe this photo. You can find more information about the scurvy. Research in the internet in order to construct a poster for the [...] increase the budget of the Bavarian army while increasing the number of troops and their wages, he had to find a means to re- duce costs. The first measure was to lower the costs of the soldiers’ uniforms by employing

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Lind and scurvy

and Physical Science (specifically Electricity and Magnetism). After graduation, he had problems finding a permanent job. He applied to be a school teacher, but after multiple failed attempts to obtain [...] element A that reacted with the same amount of element B to form two different compounds. From this finding, Dalton formu- lated another law: the law of multiple proportions. This law states that if two elements [...] chemical ele- ments had the ability to emit such radiation. There were several more astonishing findings, among them the transformation of one element into another in the process of an α- or a β-decay

File type

application/zip

Referenced at

• Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements

presented his results. Yet the scient- ists at these meetings were not really inter- ested in his findings and did not respond – ac- tually they did not even criticize his results even though they were far

File type

application/pdf

Referenced at

• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

have some conceptual problems with your results, they appear to be valid, and I will support your findings in the future.” Joule smiled back, and a feeling of deep satisfaction was in this smile: he knew [...] time, and he knew that after convincing Thomson, other scientists would also start to believe his findings. James Prescott Joule, the owner of a Manchester brewery, succeeded in determining experimentally [...] called by then) and the principle of energy conservation. From the contradiction between Joule’s findings and the established Carnot cycle, scientists – among them William Thomson – developed the concept

File type

application/pdf

Referenced at

• Scientific Partnership; James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

………………………………… ………………………………………………………………….. 2. Make a graph: temperature against time and from that find the raise of the temperature for the time interval 6th min 8th min. 3. Based on the images below (these

File type

application/pdf

Referenced at

• Mouchot and the solar cooker