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historical background is to form a basis for stories that may be used individually or combined, and that enable teachers to address these three aspects. The historian and philosopher of science Thomas [...] commonly used in beer brewing, thus Joule was very versed in controlling the thermal situation in such a vessel – an insulat- ed one (which could [...] the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the infor- mation contained therein.

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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

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 cylindrical vessel (fig. 4 and 5) together [...] the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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• Guericke and vacuum

what we have is the notion of ele- ments, but nor in the sense we use it nowadays. However, there is another idea that can be tak- en as being relevant to the conceptual devel- opment of chemistry that [...] of classification is not as uncommon as it seems nowadays: Kepler used a similar approach for the planets in the solar system in his Harmonia Mundi. Seeming- ly, Newland had no conception of the underly [...] the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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• Mendeleev and the Periodic System

Thomas Moffet (also Mouffet and Muffet) compiled a book on insects using several unpublished sources. Yet he could not get it published. It appeared 30 years after his death, published by the famous [...] the grub and finally the grown insect. He was one of the first to use optical equipment like magnifying glasses and microscopes for obser- vation. The metamorphosis of insects was a topic of Johannes [...] the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

hollow cyl- inder containing water—a similar device had been used by the end of the eighteenth century by Horace Benedict de Saussure for making experi- ments on heat radiation. This was combined with a hollow mirror that was used to focus solar radia- tion on the cylinder. Already in 1861, Mouchot was able to produce steam with his device. In the following [...] author, and the Commission cannot be held responsi- ble for any use which may be made of the information con- tained therein.

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• Mouchot and the solar cooker

4 The publication of the recipe included the cost for the fuel used in the kitchen and the wages of the cook and the clerks who served the soup to the recipients (Thompson 1804, pp. 274 & 276). 5 [...] much in common with the soups originally devised by Thompson for use in the soup kitch- ens of the workhouses. perimental setup used. It shows Santorio sitting on a scale (a so-called weighing chair) [...] air,” strictly following the phlogiston the- ory. Lavoisier used his newly found knowledge to in- clude oxygen as part of a chemical reaction and was able to extend his theory to the effects of

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• Eijkman and Beri-Beri
• Lind and scurvy
• Liebig and nutrition
• Rumford and nutrition
• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration
• Dr. Andreas Junk
• Dr. Andreas Junk

Holsten; German: Schleswig-Holsteinische Frage), which is a term used to describe a set of national conflicts between the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and their relationships to the Kingdom of [...] ), but it has not yet been studied which language policies were used or enacted among the policy makers themselves. This study looks at the question of bi- and multilingualism in the Parliament of the [...] which topics are brought before parliament and which language is used in discussion. Finally, when questions regarding language use or choice are debated, which debates lead to political action. This

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• Project presentations

largely low ones in fam- ily-owned companies. Our index can be used to test hypotheses about the determinants of different levels of supervisory board codetermination and assumptions about co-

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of the companies concerned. In further studies, our index can be used to test hypotheses about the preconditions for, and the economic and social effects of, different levels of supervisory board

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contact tim.muellenborn@fu-berlin.de or hoepner@mpifg.de. If you use this index pleace cite: Höpner, Martin/Müllenborn, Tim (2010): Mitbestimmung im Unternehmensvergleich. Ein Konzept zur Messung des

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