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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

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• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration

…… Activity 2 In the website: http://comenius.susqu.edu/hons/250/scientists/lavoisier.htm You can find the following picture: The evolution of knowledge in chemistry is presented in the above picture. [...] conservation of mass) 5 Storytelling Teaching Model: http://science-story-telling.eu Activity 5 You can find the picture and the text bellow in the following website: http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot [...] element A that reacted with the same amount of element B to two different com- pounds. From this finding Dalton formulated another law. the law of multiple proportions characterizes that if two elements

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• Lavoisier and the conservation of mass

rigsdansk. Dybfryserdansk I New Denmark-dansk kan vi finde nogle træk fra ældre dansk der er så godt som udgået af nutidens sprog- brug, men som stadig findes bevaret i udvandrerdanske sprogvarianter. En sådan [...] opretholdt længe på trods af presset fra det omgivende sprog engelsk. I New Denmark-dansk kan man finde fossilerede elementer af ældre dansk, som ikke bruges mere i nutidens sprog, og man kan konstatere [...] fyldt i sække og læsset på jernbanen til videre transport. Kartoffelhuse eller -kældre fandtes og findes også i Danmark, men konstruktionen af New Den- mark-kartoffelhusene og arbejdspro- cesserne var canadiske

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• Prof. Dr. Karoline Kühl

processing procedures, while Section 5 provides the detailed analyses. Section 6 summarizes the findings, concludes and adds perspectives to the results. 2. Auxiliary choice in European and North American [...] konfirmeret and gift, there is no indication of an overall (however motivated) change in NAD. The finding that mainly født, konfirmeret and gift are subject to change is consolidated by the present study

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• Prof. Dr. Karoline Kühl

fortættet eksempel på mange af de træk, der er særlige for færødansk. I slutningen af artik- len findes eksemplet på standard- dansk sammen med en oversigt over af de systematiske forskelle. Der er kun

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• Prof. Dr. Karoline Kühl

the holes had to be drilled to fit this shape. Given the low flexibility these rods likely have, I find the second option more likely and conclude that the steel structure was likely produced by a less [...] group of users. Consequently, I cannot identify a clear use either. Further research could attempt to find archival sources regarding Kennedy’s, Epp’s and Artzt’s designs and instrument purchases. This approach

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• Material Culture

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

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

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

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

scientific thinking and innovation with the brewer’s interest in highly accurate measurements. His findings and publications greatly improved the efficiency of many 19th century industrial machines and processes [...] heat could neither be created nor destroyed. Joule’s theory was so controversial that he could not find a scientific journal to publish it. It first appeared in a local Manchester newspaper. Finally he [...] become chemically attached and deliver charge. By carefully measuring currents, Joule was able to find the “affinity” of oxygen with plates of various elements. He then compared this with the heat produced

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

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

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