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Influences and legacy. "On Exactitude in Science" elaborates on a concept in Lewis Carroll 's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: a fictional map that had "the scale of a mile to the mile." One of Carroll's characters notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does ...
The New Science (Italian: La Scienza Nuova pronounced [la ʃˈʃɛntsa ˈnwɔːva]) is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. It was first published in 1725 to little success, but has gone on to be highly regarded and influential in the philosophy of history, sociology, and anthropology. The central concepts were highly ...
The Tree of Knowledge (Spanish: El árbol de la ciencia) is a novel written by Pío Baroja. It was published in 1911, although the action takes place between 1887 and 1898. It is a semi-autobiographical work divided into two symmetrical parts (I–III and V–VII), separated by a long philosophical conversation between the protagonist and his ...
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which ...
The Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe (Valencian: Museu de les Ciències Príncep Felip, Spanish: Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, anglicised as "Science Museum Príncipe Felipe") [a] is a science museum in Valencia, Spain. It is part of the City of Arts and Sciences, an architectural complex within the city, and can be found at ...
Her daughter, Paola D'Alessio, was born in 1964 when she was in Oxford, and became a noted planetary scientist. [7] She was also mother to Dr. Bibiana Bilbao, a renowned field and experimental ecologist, winner of the 2010 European Award ‘Innovation for Sustainable Development'.
La Casa de la Ciencia (The House of Science) in the city of Seville, Spain is a centre for popularizing science. Along with a museum, the building houses the Andalusian headquarters of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). CSIC is the largest public institution devoted to research in Spain, and the third largest in Europe.
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