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library, belonging to her father and stepfather. From an early age she was fascinated by the world of insects and plants. Her interests were unusual, because people at that time still believed that [...] them live and represent the true color. On May 16, 1665, at the age of 18, Maria married older 10 years than she painter, Johann Andreas Graff, another stepfather's student, who later specialized in [...] . Her watercolor were constantly earning buyers. In 1699, at the age of 52, in spite of friends and family, who advised against the trip, she made her will and boarded the ship to Surinam (Dutch colony

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

Moldenhauer, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1824, at the age of 21, Liebig became a professor at the University of Giessen. While in Germany, he founded and edited the magazine Annalen der Chemie

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• Liebig and nutrition

food. If one was a follower of the general ideas of the industrial age where the human body was placed into the intersection between energy, cost and workload, this was very convenient. The major source

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Moldenhauer, the daughter of a civil servant. In 1824, at the age of 21, Liebig became a professor at the University of Giessen. While in Germany, he founded and edited the magazine Annalen der Chemie [...] food. If one was a follower of the general ideas of the industrial age where the human body was placed into the intersection between energy, cost and workload, this was very convenient. The major source [...] . Santorio accounted for a number of factors such as illness, age, physical activity, nourishment, and sleep, which could increase or decrease the insensible perspiration. Additionally, he invented

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they named Benjamin. This biography is about Benjamin who, at the age of 39, became Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire. Benjamin’s father died when the child was only two years old. His mother’s [...] whom he disliked. Fortunately, unlike most other children his age, Benjamin was sent to grammar school at age eight. By age 13, having ac- quired a mastery of advanced algebra, geometry, as- tronomy [...] appointed a major in the New Hampshire military at 19 years of age. Military life in 1773 was dangerous and tense. War was brewing between the British and Americans, which eventually resulted in the

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• Rumford and nutrition
• Rumford and calorics

they named Benjamin. This biography is about Benjamin who, at the age of 39, became Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire. Benjamin’s father died when the child was only two years old. His mother’s [...] whom he disliked. Fortunately, unlike most other children his age, Benjamin was sent to grammar school at age eight. By age 13, having ac- quired a mastery of advanced algebra, geometry, as- tronomy [...] appointed a major in the New Hampshire military at 19 years of age. Military life in 1773 was dangerous and tense. War was brewing between the British and Americans, which eventually resulted in the

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for a pension, which was fortunate, as he had already reached the age of 55 years. Deteriorating eyesight and meagre finances plagued his retirement. Yet, he was able to com- plete and publish an important

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• Mouchot and the solar cooker

a young pro- fessor at the University of Glasgow and, despite his age, already well-established in the scientific community. Thus, it was not just the individual Thomson who supported Joule’s work, but

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.
• Mouchot and the solar cooker
• Rumford and calorics

a young pro- fessor at the University of Glasgow and, despite his age, already well-established in the scientific community. Thus, it was not just the individual Thomson who supported Joule’s work, but

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26, 1743. He was born to an affluent bank-clerk family. At the age of five, he inherited possessions left to him after his mother’s death. From a young age, he was interested in nature and he often [...] as a geolo- gist in the Alsace-Lorraine. On May 18, 1768, at the age of twenty-four, he was chosen to become a member of French Academy of Science. In the following year, he worked on the first geological [...] legal studies led him to take an interested in politics. At the age of 26, he became a tax collector employed by a pri- vate company. While working for the government, he developed a new system of

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• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration