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• Newtonian telescope — The Newtonian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope invented by the British scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror. Newton’s first reflecting telescope was completed in… …   Wikipedia

• Aufklärung (The German) and British philosophy — The German Aufklärung and British philosophy Manfred Kuehn INTRODUCTION The German Enlightenment was not an isolated phenomenon.1 It was closely connected with developments in other European countries and in North America. Like the thinkers in… …   History of philosophy

• Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …   History of philosophy

• Maksutov telescope — A 150mm aperture Maksutov Cassegrain telescope. The Maksutov is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design that takes advantage of all the surfaces being nearly spherically… …   Wikipedia

• On Vision and Colors — (German: Über das Sehn und die Farben) is a treatise[1] by Arthur Schopenhauer that was published in May 1816 when the author was 28 years old. Schopenhauer had extensively discussed with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet s Theory of… …   Wikipedia

• Midlands 3 East (South) — English Rugby Union Midland Division Midlands 3 East (South) is an English Rugby Union League. Midlands 3 East (South) is made up of teams from around the East Midlands of England who play home and away matches throughout a winter season. As with …   Wikipedia

• science, history of — Introduction       the history of science from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the 20th century.       On the simplest level, science is knowledge of the world of nature. There are many regularities in nature that mankind has had to… …   Universalium

• List of people from Newton, Massachusetts — Newton, Massachusetts has been the home of many notable people. Academics Contents 1 Academics 2 Actors and actresses 3 …   Wikipedia

• Hypostasize — Hy*pos ta*size, v. t. To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] [1913 Webster] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• History of physics — The modern discipline of physics emerged in the 17th century following in traditions of inquiry established by Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Isaac Newton, and other natural philosophers.Fact|date=September 2008 Prior to this time, a unified… …   Wikipedia

• Isaac Newton — Sir Isaac Newton …   Wikipedia