Observations suggest that the universe began around 13. 7 billion years ago.

In 1809 Gall began writing his greatest work " The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular, with Observations upon the possibility of ascertaining the several Intellectual and Moral Dispositions of Man and Animal, by the configuration of their Heads.

He also began to actively propagate his ideas in two booklets called Remarks ( or Observations ) on the Present System of Roadmaking, ( which ran nine editions between 1816 and 1827 ) and A Practical Essay on the Scientific Repair and Preservation of Public Roads, published in 1819.

Observations began in July 1992 and the project concluded in December 1999.

In an essay entitled " The Search for the ‘ Lost History ” Observations on the Historical Self-Evidence of the Federal Republic ” first published in the September / October 1986 edition of Merkur magazine, Mommsen began his article by arguing that the Historikerstreit was the result of the desire of the German Right to have a history that they could approve of.

Observations with the interferometer began in 1965.

So far, however, from promoting the acceptance of the psychological theory, this physical hypothesis proved to have rather the opposite effect, and it began to be dropped by Hartley's followers ( as Joseph Priestley, in his abridged edition of the Observations, 1775 ) before it was seriously impugned from without.

The company began publishing a paid subscription research report called the Daily Observations which inspired McDonald ’ s Corp. and its main supplier to become clients in the early 1980s.

These include Metals and Materials ; the Secrets of Chemistry ; the Origin of Metals ; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone ; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.

In 1835 the French Academy sent Antoine on a scientific mission to Brazil, the results being published at a later date ( 1873 ) under the title of Observations relatives à la physique du globe faites au Bresil et en Ethiopie.

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

A second pamphlet, Additional Observations on the Short Narrative, furthered the attack on crown officials by complaining that customs officials ( one of whom had left Boston to carry Hutchinson's gathered depositions to London ) were abandoning their posts under the pretense that it was too dangerous for them to do their duties.

Although the biography was not intended for publication, it appeared in print in 1809 under the title, " Lady Murray's Narrative " in Observations on the Historical Work of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox.

His principal writings are Doblado's Letters from Spain ( 1822 ) ( under the pseudonym of " Don Leucado Doblado ", and written in part at Holland House in London ), Evidence against Catholicism ( 1825 ), Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion ( 2 vols., 1834 ) and Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy ( 1835 ).

* The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: The Story of A Woman's Part in the Struggle to Free the Slaves, An Account of the Whippings, Rapes, and Violences that Preceded the Civil War in America, with Curious Anthropological Observations on the Radical Diversities in the Conformation of the Female Bottom and the Way Different Women Endure Chastisement ( 1899 ) under the pseudonym Jean de Villiot, probably Hugues Rebell or Charles Carrington.

There is a reference to a fuchsia under the name of " Thiles " in the Journal des Observations Botaniques in 1725.

In 1817 Maclure, residing in Europe, brought before the same society a revised edition of his map, and his great geological memoir was issued separately, with some additional matter, under the title Observations on the Geology of the United States of America.

In the United States, the code is given authority ( with some US national differences from the WMO / ICAO model ) under the Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1 ( FMH-1 ), which itself has paved the way for the US Air Force Manual 15-111 on Surface Weather Observations, being the authoritative document for the US Armed Forces.

The Committee restated its concerns on November 2, 2005, when it published its Concluding Observations regarding Canada's fifth periodic report under the Covenant.

He published the substance of his communications to the Academy in 1706 under the title of Adversaria anatomica, the first of a series by which he became favorably known throughout Europe as an accurate anatomist ; the book included Observations of the Larynx, the Lachrymal Apparatus, and the Pelvic Organs in the Female.

Observations of turbulence in Lake Ontario reveal under wave-breaking conditions the traditional theory significantly underestimates the production of turbulent kinetic energy within the surface layer.

published in 1754 under title: Observations on the Antiquities of Cornwall.

Shortly before this period Tebbutt had begun to record meteorological observations, and in 1868 published these for the years 1863 to 1866 under the title Meteorological Observations made at the Private Observatory of John Tebbutt, Jnr.

In 1864, he published his first work devoted to shellfish under the title Observations On The Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine, Including a Catalogue of All the Species of Terrestrial Mollusca and Fluvial Known to Inhabit the State.

Observations of the large-scale structure of the universe show that matter is aggregated into very large structures that would not have time to have formed under the force of their own self-gravitation.

* Pharmacopoeia Meadiana: faithfully gathered from original Prescriptions, containing the most elegant Methods of Cure in Diseases ; to which are annexed useful Observations upon each Prescription ; the whole digested under proper Heads '.

Observations have revealed generally that spatial variance in water content tends to increase as overall wetness increases in semiarid regions, to decrease as overall wetness increases in humid regions, and to peak under intermediate wetness conditions in temperate regions.

As such, both he and Mercy went to work, he submitting essays to the local newspaper as " Helvitius Priscus ", she writing a pamphlet ( Observations on the new Constitution ) under the pen-name " A Columbian Patriot ".

* Bruce Rusty Lang, commander of a mixed United States Army Special Forces & Montagnard ( Degar / Bru people ) commando Recon Team ( RT Oklahoma ) of Command and Control North, Studies and Observations Group.

* Braid, J., " Facts and Observations as to the Relative Value of Mesmeric and Hypnotic Coma, and Ethereal Narcotism, for the Mitigation or Entire Prevention of Pain during Surgical Operations ", The Medical Times, Vol. 15, No. 385, ( 13 February 1847 ), pp. 381 – 382, Vol. 16, No. 387, ( 27 February 1847 ), pp. 10 – 11.

* Sturt, Charles ,' Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 with Observations on the Soil, Climate and general Resources of the Colony of New South Wales ,' Vol 1 London, Smith Elder and Co, 1833, map facing LXXX Map is titled: Map of the Discoveries in Australia copied from the latest M. S. Surveys in the Colonial Office, 16 Feb 1832, London, J. Arrowsmith.

Observations are revealing a growing number of recurrent X-ray transients, characterized by short outbursts with very fast rise times ( tens of minutes ) and typical durations of a few hours that are associated with OB supergiants and hence define a new class of massive X-ray binaries: Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients ( SFXTs ).

In 1867, he published his book Les Rêves et les moyens de les diriger ; observations pratiques (" Dreams and How to Guide them ; Practical Observations "), in which he documented more than twenty years of his own research into dreams.

SEALs continued to make forays into North Vietnam and Laos, and covertly into Cambodia, controlled by the Studies and Observations Group.

Publications from New Harmony's press include William Maclure's Essay on the Formation of Rocks, or an Inquiry into the Probably Origin of their Present Form and Structure and Observations on the Geology of the West India Islands ; from Barbadoes to Santa Cruz, Inclusive, both published in 1832 ; Thomas Say's Description of New Species of North American Insects, and Observations on Some of the Species Already Described ; Descriptions of Some New Terrrestrial and Fluviatile Shells of North America ; and American Conchology, or Descriptions of the Shells of North America.

On 18 November 1965, the first mission was launched " across the fence " and into Laos by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ).

* An Inquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening, with some Observations on its Theory and Practice, 1806 ; it also included his letter to Price.

His chief prose works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England ( London, 1665 ), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbière's book Relation d ’ un voyage en Angleterre ( Paris, 1664 ), and a History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1667 ), which Sprat had helped to found.

* four books of Divine Fancies digested into Epigrams, Meditations and Observations ( 1632 )

Observations of captive frilled sharks swimming with their mouths open suggest that the small teeth, light against the dark mouth, may even fool squid into attacking and entangling themselves.

Observations from the VLT-UT4 telescope equipped with an adaptive optics system in 2007 and lightcurve data analysis suggest that one of the components appears to have a 68-km bowl-shaped impact crater that may be the result of a violent collision of proto-Antiope into two equisized bodies.

Oberlin published several manuals on archaeology and ancient geography, and made frequent excursions into different provinces of France to investigate antiquarian remains and study provincial dialects, the result appearing in Essai sur le patois Lorrain ( 1775 ); Dissertations sur les Minnesingers ( 1782 – 1789 ); and Observations concernant le patois et les mœurs des gens de la campagne ( 1791 ).

This provoked Thomas Sprat ( then spokesman for and historian of the Society ) to publish Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England ( London: 1665 ) as a reply to Sorbière's perceived insults against both English culture and the Society in particular.

* Observations on Machiavelli's Discorsi, which bring into relief the views of Italy's two great theorists on statecraft in the 16th century, and show that Guicciardini regarded Machiavelli somewhat as an amiable visionary or political enthusiast ;

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

In 1992, Sperling's grandson, David Sperling, compiled a great number of the aphorisms into a book entitled Barrage: Observations from Palestine, 1940 – 1946, which remains as of yet unpublished.

* Operation Prairie Fire, a US Studies and Observations Group ( SOG ) reconnaissance mission into Laos on February 20, 1968.

* SEPS Project – The Self-adaptive Earth Predictive System ( SEPS ) concept combines Earth System Models ( ESM ) and Earth Observations ( EO ) into one system through standard Web services.

He developed these ideas further in his 1823 book Reliquiae Diluvianae ; or, Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge, challenging the belief that the bones were brought to the cave by Noah's flood and providing detailed evidence that instead hyenas had used the cave as a den into which they brought the bones of their prey.

To lend support to his views he translated " Observations on Civil Liberty " by the Welshman Richard Price into Dutch.

Hertzberg is the author of the book, Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 ISBN 1-59420-018-1, a collection of essays and reports on four decades of American political debates, campaigns, and ideological clashes ; culture, counterculture, and pop culture ; and presidents from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, with excursions into neoconservatives, the religious right, and wars from Vietnam to the war on terror.

Observations and measurements of cosmic dust in different regions provide an important insight into the universe's recycling processes ; in the clouds of the diffuse interstellar medium, in molecular clouds, in the circumstellar dust of young stellar objects, and in planetary systems such as our own solar system, where astronomers consider dust as in its most recycled state.