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– these are electric eels.’ The main Lichtenberg achievements in the area of sciences can be added also to this collection. Our story touches the matters of the discoveries concerning the field of the [...] thought of. ‘They are really amazing’ – said Henry with the cutest voice he could come up with. He added also his cute, snow-white smile. John smiled to him in the same way. Andrew didn’t give up, he walked up [...] metal, earthed bowl. To create and separate the charges, the electrophorus has to be chafed. And I use also my cat for this chafing, with ‘huge benefit’: ‘I put it on the isolated table, I chafe it a little
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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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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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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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vitamin.” Funk also illustrated the method and the amount of the beriberi vitamin that could be precipitated from an aqueous solution, as well as the chemical formula for the vitamin. g He also gave an il [...] the law of the minimum, which states that the scarcest resource is what limits a given organism. He also developed a process for producing meat extract and founded the company Liebig Extract of Meat Company [...] because of his involvement with a radical nationalist student organization called Korps Rhenania, but also because he was looking for a place to carry out more advanced chemical research. In autumn of 1822
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involved. Finally, we conducted the ex- periment on 150 seedlings. We were not only water- ing, but also fertilizing fifty of them. Another fifty were only watered. The last fifty were watered and fertilized [...] While he was looking for the medicine for Emma, he was working not only on the poultry extract, but also beef one. During the experiment, he no- ticed that the strained meet that was lying on the glasses
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the law of the minimum, which states that the scarcest resource is what limits a given organism. He also developed a process for producing meat extract and founded the company Liebig Extract of Meat Company [...] because of his involvement with a radical nationalist student organization called Korps Rhenania, but also because he was looking for a place to carry out more advanced chemical research. In autumn of 1822 [...] titled Logic, because it promoted science as a means to social progress and political development, and also because Mill described several examples of Liebig’s research as an ideal for the scientific method
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local situation before offering any advice. Sir Benjamin took his role very seriously, but he was also ruthlessly ambitious. Over the next four years, he observed, made hypotheses, col- lected data, made [...] containing garden produce. As a result, Sir Benjamin started experi- menting with making various soups. He also ex- perimented with new crops, such as turnips for people and clover for animals. His favorite crop [...] Benjamin thought that nutritious food would result in satis- fied and healthy-looking workers. He also put forward the idea that the tastiest foods are likely to be the most nutritious, an idea he had
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he invented a device for measuring the power of gunpowder, which was used for over a century. He also performed experiments to determine the recoil of guns in different situations. The income of his position [...] conduct experiments to find the cheapest and most efficient way of providing food and clothing. He also started a clothing workhouse to produce clothing for the military. The impressed Elector rewarded [...] production did not drop or stop over time, Rumford argued that heat could not be a caloric fluid. Rumford also investigated whether or not heat had weight. For this experiment, he used three nearly iden- tical