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just because it contradicted Aristotle’s doctrine directly, but also as the Catholic Church had accepted the Earth being in the center as the truth. On the other hand the reformation had changed the fact
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cepts of Leucippus and Democritus were, however, not accepted by their contemporaries because [t]wo factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor [...] com- pletely rejected was almost completely accepted. Boltz- mann, the great proponent of the atomic theory, how- ever, did not experience the general acceptance of the theory for which he had fought, having [...] Kuhnian sense, arguably turning this achievement in stoichiometric chemistry into a science. Yet, acceptance was not automatic. Even though Dal- 4 According to Clarke (1803), the first presentation was made
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However, the concepts of Leucippus and Democritus were not accepted by their con- temporaries: “Two factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor was [...] he was in- spired by the work of Sir Robert Ball and J. J. Thomson. In 1898, Ernest Rutherford accepted a profes- sorship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The laboratories there were very well [...] University, who offered to step down if Rutherford would take over his position as Chair. Rutherford accepted the offer, and began working there in 1907. In the Manchester laboratory, the famous gold foil ex-
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institute remain open and be made permanent in their absence. Eijkman was named its new director. His acceptance of the position marked the end of his military career. Along with this work, he also became the
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the accepted understanding, he had also to conclude that heat is not a substance but the motion of the smallest particles of matter. Doing so brought him in conflict with the most recent accepted doctrine [...] 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 this impression significantly, on the very contrary: [...] destroyed or created. He had embodied the idea of conservation in a way that made it impossible to accept any excep- tions of this principle. But there seemed to be several exceptions as, for example, the
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…………………………………………………………………… ……… Activity 6 How do you explain the scientific community’s delay to accept the kinetic theory of heat? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………
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cepts of Leucippus and Democritus were, however, not accepted by their contemporaries because [t]wo factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor [...] com- pletely rejected was almost completely accepted. Boltz- mann, the great proponent of the atomic theory, how- ever, did not experience the general acceptance of the theory for which he had fought, having [...] Cambridge, he was inspired by the work of Sir Robert Ball and J. J. Thomson. In 1898, Ernest Rutherford accepted a professor- ship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The laboratories there were very well