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111agnosticism — /ag nos teuh siz euhm/, n. 1. the doctrine or belief of an agnostic. 2. an intellectual doctrine or attitude affirming the uncertainty of all claims to ultimate knowledge. [1870 75; AGNOSTIC + ISM] * * * Doctrine that one cannot know the… …
112Byzantine Empire — the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in A.D. 476. Cap.: Constantinople. * * * Empire, southeastern and southern Europe and western Asia. It began as the city of Byzantium, which had grown from an ancient Greek colony… …
113animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …
114James Buchanan: The Impending Disruption of the Union — ▪ Primary Source During the critical four months that intervened between Abraham Lincoln s election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861, President James Buchanan, a Democrat, was faced with the problem of secession. The… …
115Nordic Exhibition of 1888 — The great hall of the Nordic Exhibition of 1888, photographed by Vilhelm Tillge The Nordic exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art of 1888 was an exhibition that aimed to feature the best of art, industry, and agriculture from the five… …
116¿Está usted de broma, Sr. Feynman? — de Richard Feynman Ralph Leighton Edward Hutchins Género Autobiografía, anecdotario Edición original en …
117Vous voulez rire, monsieur Feynman ! — Vous voulez rire, monsieur Feynman ! Auteur Richard Feynman Genre Autobiographie Version originale Titre original Surely You re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Éditeur original W.W. Norton (USA) Langue originale …
118Jeremiah 44 — 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have… …
119Intellectual context (The) of later medieval philosophy: universities, Aristotle, arts, theology — The intellectual context of later medieval philosophy: universities, Aristotle, arts, theology Stephen Brown ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITIES A number of medieval towns in the twelfth century owed a large portion of their renown to their schools.… …
120Metaphysics and science in the thirteenth century: William of Auvergne, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon — Steven Marrone By the third decade of the thirteenth century there emerge the first signs of a new metaphysics. Alongside Neoplatonizing idealism we now see attempts to lay greater emphasis on the ontological density of the created world and to… …
