These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

* Natural law libertarianism

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Classical approaches to International legal theory are the Natural law, the Eclectic and the Legal positivism schools of thought.

* Natural law is the idea that there are rational objective limits to the power of legislative rulers.

Natural law theory asserts that there are laws that are immanent in nature, to which enacted laws should correspond as closely as possible.

Natural law is closely associated with morality and, in historically influential versions, with the intentions of God.

Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.

Natural law is the human " participation " in the eternal law in rational creatures and is discovered by reason.

Natural law, of course, is based on " first principles ":

* Natural law

* Natural law, any of a number of doctrines in moral, political and legal theory

* Natural law

Natural law, or the law of nature (), is a system of law that is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

Natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ).

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

* 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

Natural amethyst is dichroic in reddish violet and bluish violet, but when heated, turns yellow-orange, yellow-brown, or dark brownish and may resemble citrine, but loses its dichroism, unlike genuine citrine.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

Natural history is the study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships.

The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Natural beryllium, save for slight contamination by cosmogenic radioisotopes, is essentially beryllium-9, which has a spin of-3 / 2.

If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...

Natural boron is composed of two stable isotopes, one of which ( boron-10 ) has a number of uses as a neutron-capturing agent.

However, it is clear he was familiar with the works of Virgil and with Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and his monastery also owned copies of the works of Dionysius Exiguus.

* A Natural arch is formed when a sea stacks is eroded through by waves.

Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common.

Natural resources include fish and a climate and beaches that foster tourism, which is the islands ' major industry.

Natural hazards include the heavy surf and the lack of natural harbors on the coast ; during the rainy season torrential flooding is a danger.

Natural saccharides are generally built of simple carbohydrates called monosaccharides with general formula ( CH < sub > 2 </ sub > O )< sub > n </ sub > where n is three or more.

Claudius is the source for numerous passages of Pliny's Natural History.

Natural selection would favor the zombies, since their design is ( we could suppose ) a bit simpler.

There is a Natural History Museum operating under the direction of the University of Crete and two aquariums-Aquaworld in Hersonissos and Cretaquarium displaying sea creatures common in Cretan waters.

Natural admiration for excellence and justifiable pride in a predecessor's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

Natural gas was also discovered in the 1980s during exploration work, and this is being commercially recovered, beginning in the late 1990s.

There is also an intact specimen of an elephant bird's egg ( contrasted with the eggs from other bird species, including a hummingbird's ) on display at the Delaware Museum of Natural History, just outside Wilmington, Delaware, USA, and another in the Natural History Museum, London, England.

* Natural theology – the discussion of those aspects of theology that can be investigated without the help of revelation scriptures or tradition ( sometimes contrasted with " positive theology ")

At the time of the Darwin centennial in Cambridge in 1909, Mutationism and Lamarckism were contrasted with Darwin's “ Natural Selection ” as competing ideas ; 50 years later, at the University of Chicago centennial of the publication of The Origin of Species, mutationism ( like Lamarckism ) was no longer seriously considered.

* Journal of a Tour through North Wales and Part of Shropshire with Observations in Mineralogy and Other Branches of Natural History ( London, 1797 )

Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society in Association with Ulster Historical Foundation.

Natural materials merged with plastics.

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Brent Patterson has revealed findings that most coyotes in Eastern Ontario are wolf-coyote hybrids and that the Eastern wolves in Algonquin Park are, in general, not interbreeding with coyotes.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

In Pliny's Natural History ( 7. 198 ) he is credited with inventing carpentry " and with it the saw, axe, plumb-line, drill, glue, and isinglass ".

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

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* Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History-Over 160, 000 objects from Pacific, North American, African, Asian ethnographic collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online.

# Evergreen needleleaf forest – Natural forest with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is predominantly (> 75 %) needleleaf and evergreen.

# Deciduous needleleaf forests – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is predominantly (> 75 %) needleleaf and deciduous.

# Mixed broadleaf / needleleaf forest – Natural forest with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is composed of a more or less even mixture of needleleaf and broadleaf crowns ( between 50: 50 % and 25: 75 %).

# Broadleaf evergreen forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, the canopy being > 75 % evergreen and broadleaf.

# Deciduous broadleaf forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, in which > 75 % of the canopy is deciduous and broadleaves predominate (> 75 % of canopy cover ).

# Freshwater swamp forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, composed of trees with any mixture of leaf type and seasonality, but in which the predominant environmental characteristic is a waterlogged soil.

# Sclerophyllous dry forest – Natural forest with > 30 % canopy cover, in which the canopy is mainly composed of sclerophyllous broadleaves and is > 75 % evergreen.

# Lowland evergreen broadleaf rain forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, below altitude that display little or no seasonality, the canopy being > 75 % evergreen broadleaf.