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very slowly. Sometimes she would start to draw the strange leaves on the branches that the silk- worms were eating and sitting at. And then one day the silkworms started to spin themselves into a cocoon [...] draw it – but the old man shook his head and said: “No that is out of question, I guess you want to start your own silkworm breed?” Sibylla shook her head and said: “No, I would only like to draw the silkworms [...] decided to inspect this phenomenon some more and to observe it even closer. Maria Sibylla Marian started observing and drawing silkworms, caterpillars and butterflies at the age of thirteen. Nineteen years
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still believed that insects were created from dirt and mud. Her observations started in 1660 in Frankfurt. At 13, she started to study the metamorphosis of insects, for example, the development of silkworms [...] and plants. She visited plantations along the Suriname River in search of new caterpillars. She started with a 40-mile canoe expedition up the river to the plantation of Providence in April 1700, together
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nature and he often carried out bar- ometrical and meteorological observations. In 1754, Antoine started attending Collège des Quatre Nations (Collège Mazarin), which was known for its advanced teaching
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establishing his work, but also William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Yet, Joule himself did not start from scratch and par- ticularly referred to the work of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count Rumford, who carried [...] distance. Due to the absorption of radiant heat and the resulting different pressure, the alcohol drop starts to move. The experimenter increases the distance between the stronger heat source and the thermoscope [...] efficient way to insulate the human body. To summarize, Rumford can in retrospect be identified as a starting point for various develop- ment in the energy science – he carried out exper- iments that were related
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hoses and nozzles. Finally the barrel was sealed, the pump was mounted and Otto gave the starting shot. The men started to pump. Relatively soon they were groaning because it became harder and hard- er to [...] 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 [...] In 1632, when Magdeburg was taken over by Swedish people, he came back to his homecity, where he started to work in the city’s administration. During the following ten years, he was involved in rebuilding
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loud explosions, adding that “sometimes the bang is so loud that the dogs in the neighbouring parish start to bark”. In his experiments helped him Mikołaj Bogusław Ciechański (1737 – 1828), who was a Polish [...] was a device that would be useful to have another attraction in his demon- strations. Lichtenberg started making several electrophori, the largest with a diameter of approximately 2m. One of the things he [...] very often end up with loud explo- sions, sometimes the boom is so huge, that all the dogs nearby start to bark.’ Peter, John, Paul and Henry exclaimed at the same moment: ‘we would like to go for this
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hoses and nozzles. Finally the barrel was sealed, the pump was mounted and Otto gave the starting shot. The men started to pump. Relatively soon they were groaning because it became harder and hard- er to [...] walked, no he hurried home (he didn’t run because that was not proper for a man of his sta- tus). He started to think- a barrel could be sealed when it was painted thickly with pitch. And the fire fighters’ [...] that an empty barrel wouldn’t have to be sealed at all because nothing could come out of it. Otto started to lose his pa- tience: “If nothing is in it we have to prevent something from entering the barrel
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In 1632, when Magdeburg was taken over by Swedish people, he came back to his homecity, where he started to work in the city’s administration. During the following ten years, he was involved in rebuilding [...] was the creating of vacuum by pumping the water out of the hermetically closed wooden barrel. He started to use metal vessels in the following experiments. The first attempt with the copper sphere ended
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very often end up with loud explo- sions, sometimes the boom is so huge, that all the dogs nearby start to bark.’ Peter, John, Paul and Henry exclaimed at the same moment: ‘we would like to go for this [...] lecture. Professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg walked onto the platform, because of his height, and he started stately: ‘during today’s lecture we will find out how and what for we can use a simple physical device [...] electrophorus, I built several ones, the biggest one with the diameter of around 2 me- ters. Then, I started to repeat the experiments with discharging electrophorus and because my labora- tory was full of
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was a device that would be useful to have another attraction in his demon- strations. Lichtenberg started making several electrophori, the largest with a diameter of approximately 2m. One of the things he