Before scientific investigation of aeronautics started, people started thinking of ways to fly.

Before long, scientific inquiries provoked by his claims had pushed back the age of the earth into the millions of yearsstill too short when compared with the accepted 4. 6 billion year age in the 21st century, but a distinct improvement.

Before then, its application was lax in other scientific fields.

Before he had propounded the atomic theory, he had already attained a considerable scientific reputation.

In the 1960 edition, the article on the ark stated that " Before the days of ' higher criticism ' and the rise of the modern scientific views as to the origin of the species, there was much discussion among the learned, and many ingenious and curious theories were advanced, as to the number of animals on the ark ".

Before the end of the year, Lapham had published a Catalogue of Plants and Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, on the West Side of Lake Michigan, perhaps the first scientific work published west of the Great Lakes.

Before the fall of the Old Empire, a scientific expedition known as the Noah 9 left Earth in search of Heaven, a paradise world to which humans could immigrate.

Before the law was amended in 1982, a listed species could be taken only for scientific or research purposes.

Before Darwin's argument and presentation of the evidence for evolution, Western religions generally discounted or condemned any claims that diversity of life is the result of an evolutionary process, as did most scientists in the English scientific establishment.

Before scientific weight training, muscle-building dietary supplements, and anabolic steroids, Allen boasted a powerful and muscular physique along the lines of Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx.

Before accepting the role of Roy Hinkley, he made Gilligan's Island producer Sherwood Schwartz promise him that when he made scientific statements they would be accurate.

* Before Present ( sometimes " Before Physics "), a time scale used in many scientific disciplines to mean years before 1950 ; commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating

Before Present ( BP ) years is a time scale used in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events in the past occurred.

Before the availability of lasers and other electric lights, heliostats were widely used to produce intense, stationary beams of light for scientific and other purposes.

Before the discovery of the oxidizer perchlorate on Mars in 2008, some theories remained opposed to the general scientific conclusion.

Before the scientific advances in the 1980s, autism scholars popularized the belief that autism resulted from faulty parenting ; stigma remained until recent genetic research debunked this myth.

Life Before Life: A scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives, St. Martin's Press, New York, 256pp.

Before setting out for their destination, he and his associates were admitted to the French Academie des Sciences and were commissioned by that learned body to carry on astronomical observations, to determine the geographical positions of the various places they were to visit, and to collect various scientific data.

Before 1980, Principle 3 of the AMA Principles of medical ethics stated: " A physician should practice a method of healing founded on a scientific basis ; and he should not voluntarily professionally associate with anyone who violates this principle.

Before Jake can communicate with Frank his intentions, Dr. Liz Bartlet ( Sandy Duncan ), who heads the Thermal Department, storms into his office, upset at Franks sense of humor in light of such an important scientific discovery.

Before Darwin published his theory of evolution and common descent in his Origin of Species ( 1859 ) scientific theories or models of Polygenism ( such as Agassiz's ) were strictly creationist.

Before the creation of the Slovak Academy of Sciences ( 1942 / 1953 ), the Matica functioned as a substitute for a general supreme scientific, and initially even for any other, institution of the Slovaks.

Before HM Government wind-up led by minister James Brokenshire, the FSS was the market leader in the supply of forensic science services to police forces in England and Wales, as well as being a source of training, consultancy and scientific support.

Present day oceanographers rediscovered Olaus Magnus ' eye for detail ( disregarding the sea monsters ) and a series of scientific publications followed on Olaus ' truthful depiction of currents between Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Dr. Thanikaimoni's scientific legacy is detailed in " Eminent Indian Botanists Past and Present ".

Present and review scientific evidence, theory or interpretation honestly and accurately.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

An elaborate system of accounting and reports was worked out, and the trade was to be managed in the most scientific way.

In addition to his scientific work, he was a social activist who was critical of what he considered to be an unjust social and economic system in 19th-century Britain.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

Aside from these core elements, a civilization is often marked by any combination of a number of secondary elements, including a developed transportation system, writing, standardized measurement, currency, contractual and tort-based legal systems, characteristic art and architecture, mathematics, enhanced scientific understanding, metallurgy, political structures, and organized religion.

All the environmental impact reports and scientific studies have shown that the Cornell lake source cooling system has not yet had and will not likely have any measurably significant environmental impact.

The " Joseph Harding method " was the first modern system for Cheddar production based upon scientific principles.

A concept is a system of general ideas targeting the multilateral treatment / interpretation of economic, social, legal, scientific, technical and other problems, and reflecting the manner of perception or the multitude of opinions, ideas regarding problems associated with to the development of one or several fields or sectors as a whole.

Starting in the 1880s, and more significantly by the mid-20th century, CGS was gradually superseded internationally for scientific purposes by the MKS ( metre – kilogram – second ) system, which in turn developed into the modern SI standard.

While his system was less " scientific " than that of J. P. Lesley, it's other key features – notation, specificity, and versatility – make it deserving of the praise it has received.

Frances and others have published debates on what they see as the six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis-are they more like theoretical constructs or more like diseases ; how to reach an agreed definition ; whether the DSM-V should take a cautious or conservative approach ; the role of practical rather than scientific considerations ; the issue of use by clinicians or researchers ; and whether an entirely different diagnostic system is required.

) But such a system is impractical for scientific use, since new planets may be found closer to the star, changing all numerals.

In 1921, his third year at the university, he published his first scientific works in the Italian journal Nuovo Cimento: the first was titled: On the dynamics of a rigid system of electrical charges in translational motion ; the second: On the electrostatics of a uniform gravitational field of electromagnetic charges and on the weight of electromagnetic charges.

Fans have developed lengthy scientific theories for the seasons, such as a multiple-star system or a planet with special axial tilt, but Martin insists there is a supernatural fantasy explanation instead of a scientific one.

Although his many anatomical experiments on animal models led him to a more complete understanding of the circulatory system, nervous system, respiratory system and other structures, his work was not without scientific inaccuracies.

French scientists such as Antoine Lavoisier worked to replace the archaic units of weights and measures by a coherent scientific system.

But these are quickly refigured into a personal system informed by the scientific and organized like a machine ... in the Irreal work, allegory operates according to an altered, but constant and orderly iconographic system.

He further testified that he knew of no earlier " peer reviewed articles in scientific journals discussing the intelligent design of the blood clotting cascade ," but that there were " probably a large number of peer reviewed articles in science journals that demonstrate that the blood clotting system is indeed a purposeful arrangement of parts of great complexity and sophistication.

In " Liberty and the News " ( 1919 ) and " Public Opinion " ( 1921 ) Lippmann expressed the hope that liberty could be redefined to take account of the scientific and historical perspective and that public opinion could be managed by a system of intelligence in and out of government.

Sartre's emphasis on the humanist values in the early works of Marx led to a dispute with a leading leftist intellectual in France in the 1960s, Louis Althusser, who claimed that the ideas of the young Marx were decisively superseded by the " scientific " system of the later Marx.

This melding of scientific and social speculation is clearly present in the novel Voyage from Yesteryear ( strongly influenced by Eric Frank Russell's famous story " And Then There Were None ") about a high-tech anarchist society in the Alpha Centauri system, a starship sent from Earth by a dictatorial government, and the events following their first contact.