Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

In his later years as a writer and scientist, Sagan would often draw on his childhood memories to illustrate scientific points, as he did in his book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

Dava Sobel ( born June 15, 1947, The Bronx ) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

After Agassiz came to the United States he became a prolific writer in what has been later termed the genre of scientific racism.

* 1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer ( d. 1857 )

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

As well, National Organization for Marriage board member and fiction writer Orson Scott Card has supported biological research on homosexuality, writing that " our scientific efforts in regard to homosexuality should be to identify genetic and uterine causes ... so that the incidence of this dysfunction can be minimized .... this should not be seen as an attack on homosexuals, a desire to ' commit genocide ' against the homosexual community ....

no other writer worked out the scientific minutiae of his settings so fully or so unobtrusively ," praising as well Heinlein's skill at crafting " the human engineering details of each situation.

In a heady artistic and intellectual atmosphere, he read and discussed a wide range of modern artistic and scientific ideas – including those of the provocative writer Chernyshevsky, known for the bold assertion that, in art, " form and content are opposites ".

Other prominent Royalists, including Buckingham's younger brother Francis Villiers, and Kenelm Digby ( son of the scientific writer of the same name ), were also killed during the battle.

* Chriet Titulaer ( born 1943 ), television presenter and a writer of popular scientific material

* Reginald Victor Jones, physicist, scientific military intelligence expert and writer

He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories ( co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant ), wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects as well as a published poet.

Lucy's brother was Arthur Aikin ( 1773 – 1854 ), chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

* April 29-Dionysius Lardner, scientific writer

His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on legal and economic subjects, was an iron merchant.

* October 11-Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator ( born 1755 )

Afterwards he settled down in Leipzig as a freelance writer and wrote many scientific popularizations for Die Gartenlaube and other magazines.

Dionysius Lardner ( 3 April 1793-29 April 1859 ), was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopedia.

" In addition, the term was sometimes used to dismiss a scientific principle considered by the writer to be fanciful, such as in 1855's The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science, which stated that " Milton's conception of inorganic matter left to itself, without an indwelling soul, is not merely more poetical, but more philosophical and just, than the scientific romance, now generally repudiated by all rational inquirers, which represents it as necessarily imbued with the seminal principles of organization and life, and waking up by its own force from eternal quietude to eternal motion.

One of the earliest writers to be described in this way was French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion, whose Recits de l ' infini and La fin du monde have both been described as scientific romances.

* September 10-Émilie du Châtelet, French scientific writer, mistress of Voltaire and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia ( born 1706 )

The proponents are scientific and technical men who exercise considerable influence on their military counterparts.

The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.

B. Rhine, who was critical in the early foundations of parapsychology as a laboratory science, was committed to finding scientific evidence for the spiritual existence of humans.

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.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

The general consensus in the scientific community, however, was to associate this type of complexity with Kolmogorov, who was concerned with randomness of a sequence, while Algorithmic Probability became associated with Solomonoff, who focused on prediction using his invention of the universal a priori probability distribution.

Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so " in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary.

Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.

The first scientific expedition to Clipperton took place in 1725 under Frenchman M. Bocage, who lived on the island for several months.

I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them ; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country — and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

Pfeiffer ( who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming ), Paul Keene ( founder of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania ), and Scott and Helen Nearing ( who inspired the back-to-land movement of the 1960s ).

For instance, a professor of formal logic called Chin Yueh-lin – who was then regarded as China ’ s leading authority on his subject – was induced to write: “ The new philosophy Marxism-Leninism, being scientific, is the supreme truth ”.

For example, in the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change that is prevalent in the United States-it has been thought that those who are opposed to the scientific consensus did so because of a lack of evidence.

Holzkamp, who had written two books on theory of science and one on sensory perception before publishing the Grundlegung der Psychologie in 1983, thought this major work provided a solid paradigm for psychological research, as he viewed psychology as a pre-paradigmatic scientific discipline ( T. S.

He pursued his interest in behaviour by encouraging his protégé George Romanes, who investigated animal learning and intelligence using an anthropomorphic method, anecdotal cognitivism, that did not gain scientific support.

Kraepelin in general has been described as a ' scientific manager ' and political operator, who developed a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme.

Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records the dying man's narrative and confessions.