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cided to host a Christmas dinner for their friends and colleagues. After supper, Mrs. Rutherford served the traditional Christmas plum pudding. Instead of digging right in, Rutherford just stared at his

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• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom

friend. How are you?’, he showed his friend a chair next to the table. They both sat down to drink the served tea. ‘Have you seen how all the factories are growing? There is a new factory in the suburbs. Sometimes

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• Liebig and nutrition

published a book on flowers. The same did the daughter some decades later. Those books did not only serve as textbooks but also for the enjoyment of the readers. Sibylla Merians so called Blumenbuch (Book [...] colonial em- pires. Those plants could also generate great profit in the old world. As example may serve the cacao, that came as a medical tonic to Eu- rope and then turned into a beverage. Naturally the

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

colonial empires. Those plants could also generate great profit in the old world. As example may serve the cacao, that came as a medical tonic to Europe and then turned into a beverage. Naturally the

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

colonial empires. Those plants could also generate great profit in the old world. As example may serve the cacao, that came as a medical tonic to Europe and then turned into a beverage. Naturally the [...] published a book on flowers. The same did the daughter some decades later. Those books did not only serve as textbooks but also for the enjoyment of the readers. Sibylla Merians so called Blumenbuch (Book [...] colonial em- pires. Those plants could also generate great profit in the old world. As example may serve the cacao, that came as a medical tonic to Eu- rope and then turned into a beverage. Naturally the

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

would translate as indivisible particles] and that these atomos can combine in different manners that serve to form all the earthly objects.” Plato was well familiar with this kind of conception that had been

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• Democritus and the atoms

would translate as indivisible particles] and that these atomos can combine in different manners that serve to form all the earthly objects.” Plato was well familiar with this kind of conception that had been

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• Democritus and the atoms

be found, and Dalton had had the feeling that there had to be a hidden truth in Nature that could serve as an explanation of these ratios. Why did these chemical substanc- es combine according to fixed

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• Dalton and the atoms

cannon as well as a ballistic pendulum, the amplitude of the oscillation after firing the powder served as an indication of its quality. Whilst the initial research in not that important with respect to [...] in its initial equilibrium position. Comparing the distances of the two sources to the thermoscope serves as an indicator of their emission – Rumford took it for granted that the heat emitted from de- creases

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

barrel, two horses were constantly turning a large and heavy metal axis that had one end sharpened and served as a drill. Of course, there was some mechanism that made sure that the hole was drilled in the very

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• Rumford and calorics