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Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.
Aesthetic considerations such as symmetry and simplicity are used in areas of philosophy, such as ethics and theoretical physics and cosmology to define truth, outside of empirical considerations.
The remarkable development of ideas in " natural philosophy " had established itself in the public consciousness with Newton's physics taken as a paradigm: structures should be well-founded in axioms and be both well-articulated and orderly.
Goodhue conceived the overall layout of the campus and designed the physics building, Dabney Hall, and several other structures, in which he sought to be consistent with the local climate, the character of the school, and Hale's educational philosophy.
* nLab, a wiki project on mathematics, physics and philosophy with emphasis on the n-categorical point of view
After completing high school Doppler studied philosophy in Salzburg and mathematics and physics at the k. k. Polytechnisches Institut ( now Vienna University of Technology ) where he worked as an assistant since 1829.
Because " Hume's plan is to extend to philosophy in general the methodological limitations of Newtonian physics ", Hume is characterised as an empiricist.
Like so many Buddhists from 600-1000 CE, Dharmakirti ’ s philosophy involved mereological nihilism, meaning that other than states of consciousness, the only things that exist are momentary quantum particles, much like the particles of quantum physics ( quarks, electrons, etc.
Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.
The bulk of the Britannica is devoted to geography ( 26 % of the Macropædia ), biography ( 14 %), biology and medicine ( 11 %), literature ( 7 %), physics and astronomy ( 6 %), religion ( 5 %), art ( 4 %), Western philosophy ( 4 %), and law ( 3 %).
MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy.
The word is most commonly used in medical and philosophical theories, where it is used to refer to the study of why things occur, or even the reasons behind the way that things act, and is used in philosophy, physics, psychology, government, medicine, theology and biology in reference to the causes of various phenomena.
* nLab, a wiki project on mathematics, physics and philosophy with emphasis on the n-categorical point of view
Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.
Greek words have been widely borrowed into other languages, including English: mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, thespian, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, evangelist etc.
He wrote more than 200 works on medicine, mathematics, physics, philosophy, religion, and music.
Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called " physics ", focused on explanatory ( rather than descriptive ) schemes, largely developed around the Aristotelian idea of the four types of " causes ".
Ibn Sina ( 980 – 1037 ), known by the Latin name Avicenna, was a medical researcher from Bukhara, Uzbekistan responsible for important contributions to the disciplines of physics, optics, philosophy and medicine.
Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy ( a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts ) and physics ( a branch of natural philosophy ).
Although initially intending to study theoretical physics, he also attended courses on mathematics and philosophy.
However in later antiquity the first philosophy, as a more demanding discipline, was considering to come after physics and the works where it was exposed were called metaphysics.
" The editor of Aristotle's works, Andronicus of Rhodes, is thought to have placed the books on first philosophy right after another work, Physics, and called them ( ta meta ta physika biblia ) or " the books that come after the on physics ".
In 1750, on the illness of her father, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna.
Multiple universes have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, religion, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and fiction, particularly in science fiction and fantasy.

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Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.
In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.
Heschel explicated many facets of Jewish thought including studies on medieval Jewish philosophy, Kabbalah, and Hasidism.
General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).
Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.
has gradually become less common and studies outside theology and medicine have become more common ( such studies were then called " philosophy ", but are now classified as sciences and humanities – however this usage survives in the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ).
This is also true with all ontological oppositions and their many declensions, not only in philosophy as in human sciences in general, cultural studies, theory of Law, etc.
Psychologische und logische Untersuchungen which, drawing on his prior studies in mathematics and philosophy, proposed a psychological context as the basis of mathematics.
His studies at the University of Chicago were concentrated on mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, which led to a bachelor of science degree in 1910.
At the same time he pursued studies in theoretical medicine and philosophy.
His thorough grounding in philology and philosophy had accustomed him to systematic thinking, and this enabled him to construct out of his studies and observations of minerals a logical system which he began to publish in 1528.
* I-studies: a journal of Stirner studies and personalist philosophy
His studies included Latin, Greek, science, geography, mathematics, rhetoric, and philosophy.
There are many other normative approaches to the philosophy of law, including critical legal studies and libertarian theories of law.
Because of his poor grades, his father forced him to transfer to the far more serious and academically oriented University of Berlin, where his legal studies became less significant to him than excursions into philosophy and history.
Marx has influenced disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, media studies, political science, theater, history, sociological theory, cultural studies, education, economics, geography, literary criticism, aesthetics, critical psychology, and philosophy.
These studies were recorded in 13, 000 pages of notes and drawings, which fuse art and natural philosophy ( the forerunner of modern science ), made and maintained daily throughout Leonardo's life and travels, as he made continual observations of the world around him.
It is remarkable that despite all this he managed to fit in the composition of massive treatises, including not only medical and other scientific studies but some of the most systematically thought-through and influential treatises on halachah ( Rabbinic law ) and Jewish philosophy of the Middle Ages.
Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric, philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.
Accordingly, German media theory combines philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, and scienctific studies with media-specific research.
In the broad definition, the parent disciplines of musicology include history ; cultural studies and gender studies ; philosophy, aesthetics and semiotics ; ethnology and cultural anthropology ; archeology and prehistory ; psychology and sociology ; physiology and neuroscience ; acoustics and psychoacoustics ; and computer / information sciences and mathematics.
In 1894, aged 18, Pacelli began his theology studies at Rome's oldest seminary, Tridentine Collegio Capranica Seminary, and in November of the same year, registered to take a philosophy course at the Jesuit Gregoriana University and theology at the Ataneo Pontificio di Sant ' Apollinaire.

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