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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Domestication of Plants and Animals – the history of agriculture and pastoralism on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including plants and animals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the plants and animals in their environment enables human needs to be met in a…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Invention of Television – Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The materials in the human…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Invention of Television – Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The materials in the human…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited Invention of the Telephone in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate and the…[Read more]
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The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate and the…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited History of printing – From Gutenberg to the Laser Printer in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate, as they…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited History of printing – From Gutenberg to the Laser Printer on Humanities Commons 6 years ago
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Humans have a need to communicate, as they…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The History of Metallurgy in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including fire and metals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of fire and metals enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Fire and…[Read more]
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The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment, including fire and metals, to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of fire and metals enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. Fire and…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Discovery of the Periodic Table : the Chemical Revolution from Lavoisier to Mendeleev in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis paper was written to investigate the order of discoveries made in chemistry leading up to the discovery of the periodic table. New experimental techniques, such as the pneumatic trough, voltaic pile, spectroscopy, and potassium analysis led to the discovery of many new elements and their properties which enabled the discovery of the periodic…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Discovery of the Periodic Table : the Chemical Revolution from Lavoisier to Mendeleev on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This paper was written to investigate the order of discoveries made in chemistry leading up to the discovery of the periodic table. New experimental techniques, such as the pneumatic trough, voltaic pile, spectroscopy, and potassium analysis led to the discovery of many new elements and their properties which enabled the discovery of the periodic…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Discovery of the Subatomic Particles : From Atoms to Quarks in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe change from the traditional Western and Chinese view of the elements involving materials such as water, air, earth, wood, metal and fire, to the chemical elements making up the periodic table, to atoms, to particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and then to quarks was inevitable. The order of discovery of these ideas of the ultimate…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Discovery of the Subatomic Particles : From Atoms to Quarks on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
The change from the traditional Western and Chinese view of the elements involving materials such as water, air, earth, wood, metal and fire, to the chemical elements making up the periodic table, to atoms, to particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and then to quarks was inevitable. The order of discovery of these ideas of the ultimate…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited History of Astronomy – From the Ptolemaic system to General Relativity in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. The human environment has a particular structure so that human knowledge of the environment is acquired in a particular order. The structure of the universe and the nature of the human sensory apparatus ensured that…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited History of Astronomy – From the Ptolemaic system to General Relativity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. The human environment has a particular structure so that human knowledge of the environment is acquired in a particular order. The structure of the universe and the nature of the human sensory apparatus ensured that…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited How Change Happens – A theory of Philosophy of History, Macro Sociology and Cultural Evolution in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIt is proposed that the ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be meet in a more efficient manner. Human needs…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited How Change Happens – A theory of Philosophy of History, Macro Sociology and Cultural Evolution on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
It is proposed that the ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be meet in a more efficient manner. Human needs…[Read more]
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This paper was written to study the order of medical advances throughout history. It investigates changing human beliefs concerning the causes of diseases, how modern surgery developed and improved methods of diagnosis and the use of medical statistics. Human beliefs about the causes of disease followed a logical progression from supernatural…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited Sense Perception and Reality – A theory of Perceptual Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and the Observer Dependent Universe on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This paper investigates the nature of reality. It will do so by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics. The concept of perceptual relativity will be examined and this will involve looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual relativity…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Philosophy of Perception : an explanation of Realism, Idealism and the Nature of Reality on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
This paper investigates the nature of reality. It will do so by looking at the philosophical debate between realism and idealism and at scientific investigations in quantum physics. The concept of perceptual relativity will be examined and this will involve looking at sense perception in other animals and various examples of perceptual relativity…[Read more]
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