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wealthy middle-class family in Magdeburg. His family was the owner of many buildings in the city and also of manors nearby. At the age of 15, Otto enrolled the faculty of Art at the University of Leipzig [...] Emperor, Leopold I. since then he could use the nickname ‘von’. With the agreement of the emperor, he also changed the spelling of his surname to Guericke from Gericke, converging it to the French spelling [...] vessel by the sudden sucking the air out of it, and many more. Guericke’s stay in Regensburg resulted also in establishing the contact with the maths and physics professor in the Jesuit College in Würzburg
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had been considered as absurd, not 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 [...] precisely than the Aristotelian one even though the movement of the Earth was not noticeable and the also question of how the moving Earth could possibly pull the moon with her remained. Another remaining
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experimental setup and the underlying principle in several various types. In- stead of the 16 horses he also used a few men and later masses to determine a numerous value of the force that holds a similar c [...] the force of the outer atmospheric pressure that bears against the vessel. In Figure 4 one can see also the reasoned pro- duction of the scenery: With the help of the cylin- drical vessel and an evacuated [...] rather thought, that the void inside the hemispheres re- sembles the same thing, which fulfills the uni- verse. The theories of Nikolaus Kopernikus (1473- 1543) and Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ques- tioned
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seen in the historical analysis both in Greek antiquity, as well as for the modern period. It can also be identified in the educational conceptions. The historical development of the concept of elements [...] elements were not what we call earth, fire, air, and water, but they are elementary principles (see also the background on the development of the Periodic Table). 2 Historical Background: Atoms Storytelling [...] atomic theory, apart from not ac- cepting the idea of empty space, which contradicted his theory. He also found the notion of an object being in permanent motion absurd. He opposed the atomic concept in its
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known by the Italian Alessandro Volta (who is best known for his invention of the battery). Volta also claimed to have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s [...] took a completely different, and in some respect new, perspective: He explained that the result could also be explained with a one fluid theory, and thus the instrument’s be- havior was inconclusive in this
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founded by Becher and Stahl. This played also a role in naming the first instrument that enabled measurements of the amount of heat calorimeter (Roberts 1991, see also Beretta 2005), the ice calorimeter. For [...] the glass. also in 1804 an investigation in which he analyzed the ability of various materials to emit radiant heat. 2 Whilst this inquiry may be seen as funda- mental research, there are also aspects of [...] experimental resources (which will be discussed later) it also caused a difficulty: Even though conceptual difficulties played a role, it was also Joule’s status that was meaningful. He was not a trained
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some proper- ties of the principle of Earth, and can be transformed in a gaseous state, thus carries also some principles of Air (see e.g. Priesner 2011). Elementary property Cold Heat Dry Earth Fire Moist [...] century and were only omit- ted when the concept of energy became more and more established. 1 See also http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online- resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/early-chemistry- [...] there were always three elements. Moreover, these elements did not just react similarly, but they had also some fundamental connections: Most notably, calci- um, strontium, and barium did not just show a similar
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nobility (e.g. the Medici), but also collections of members of the republic of let- ters, like those of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher or the Dane Ole Worm. Moreover there were also collections for educational [...] time, but also were eco- nomically important. The search for cures for the new diseases that appeared in the colonies was of great importance for the colonial em- pires. Those plants could also generate [...] born in an epoch that was recognized as an emergence in a new era, not only by today’s historians but also by its contemporaries. They saw themselves surrounded by lively ideas, new knowledge and upheavals
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ror had a diameter of some five meters, and the engine could be used as a printing device and was also able to produce ice. Mouchot was awarded a gold medal for this machine. Yet, by this time, things