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… the pangs of work. Since work is so important in society today that it is almost impossible to avoid doing work without having to pay the price in the future. The perfect escape would be one that alleviates the strain of work yet does not incur any…

… we are going to find out which fuel contains the most energy by burning each fuel and using its heat to heat up water. PREDICTION: I predict that Ethanol will contain the most energy. I can backup my answer by referring to my scientific knowle…

… date back to the early 1200, where they were used in China. Warlords would experiment with gunpowder and arrows. The first rockets were actually made by they Chinese, they were 12 arrows placed in a funnel like basket and the end was lit.…

… at astounding rates. This new science gives us a lot of knowledge about the world we live in and about ourselves. It also leads us to ask ourselves many questions. Is everything that science teaches us good? Should we believe everything that…

… him. In the early ages, myths were the source of explanation. They explained such things as natural phenomena and the origin of man. Many people today consider science to be the mythology of the modern era. Science is knowledge acquired by observation,…

… dichotomies that make us stop to think is religion and science. A dichotomy that started in the renaissance, a period when people started questioning, looking to other horizons, other than religion. Before this period the church held back all…

… was a major milestone for the mental evolution of man. This milestone was so astronomical that it may have been the largest historical event since the rise of Christianity. The Church originally felt threatened by scientific advancements. This was…

… many people that did more than there share at finding out new scientific theories. Such as Copernicus, Columbus, Kepler, Galilei, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Vesalius, Harvey, Hooke, Boyle, Priestley, A. Lavoisier, and M. Lavoisier are all people who…

… to make new discoveries to better mankind and himself. We call these people scientist, they try to make new discoveries or take a scientific look at something and better it. Unfortunately their discoveries or views and improvements on something…

… presented by both Aristotle and Copernicus, one must consider the circumstances under which these men lived to understand the differences. The most obvious of these is the time in history. Aristotle came almost 2000 years earlier in the astronomy…