See also: Great Chain of Being

Pope gets the message across that humans must accept their position in the " Great Chain of Being " which is at a middle stage between the angels and the beasts of the world.

There is also a distinct order to the process of creation, from earth to plants to animal, which evokes the concept of The Great Chain of Being.

The idea of a " tree of life " arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower to higher forms of life ( such as in the Great Chain of Being ).

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From the ancient Greeks until the work of Carolus Linnaeus ( also known as Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné ) and other 18th century naturalists, the main concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, a conceptual arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more primitive forms of animals, and more complex life forms on a linear scale of increasing " perfection ", culminating in our species.

1579 drawing of the Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana.

The top of the Chain of Being, also external to creation, God was believed to exist outside the physical limitations of time and space.

For Medieval and Renaissance thinkers, humans occupied a unique position on the Chain of Being, straddling the world of spiritual beings and the world of physical creation.

As such, they were subject to passions and physical sensations — pain, hunger, thirst, sexual desire — just like other animals lower on the Chain of the Being.

They also possessed the powers of reproduction unlike the minerals and rocks lowest on the Chain of Being.

They possessed physical appetites and sensory attributes, the number depending upon their position within the Chain of Being.

* William F. Bynum: " The Great Chain of Being after Forty Years: An Appraisal ", History of Science 13 ( 1975 ): 1-28

* Arthur O. Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ( 1936 )

* Dictionary of the History of Ideas – Chain of Being

* The Great Chain of Being reflected in the work of Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz Peter Suber, Earlham College, Indiana

Natural history referred to the descriptive aspects of biology, though it also included mineralogy and other non-biological fields ; from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, the unifying framework of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.

The framework of his arguments center on the Great Chain of Being, in which God's perfect goodness is relative to His perfect being.

One concept, that of Christian Western Europe, conceived of the races as constituting a hierarchical chain of life known as the Great Chain of Being, which was believed to have been created by God, in which the people thought the Christian European races were closest to God in perfection.

The Great Chain of Being, a medieval idea that there was a hierarchical structure of life from the most fundamental elements to the most perfect, began to encroach upon the idea of race.

Charles White, a physician and surgeon, believed that races occupied different stations in the Great Chain of Being and he tried to prove with science that human races have distinct origins from each other.

Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being.

The Great Chain of Being was an important theme in Renaissance and Elizabethan thought, had an under-acknowledged influence on the shaping of the ideas of the Enlightenment and played a large part in the worldview of 18th century Europe.

E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, has recently proposed a sort of simplified Great Chain of Being, based on the idea of four " kingdoms " ( mineral, vegetable, animal, human ).

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

Chain snatching is relatively common in the kariakoo area.

It is also in the movie Chain Reaction, starring Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman.

The movement's sensibility is mirrored in the Warner Bros. drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ( 1932 ), a key forerunner of noir.

The 1973 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( along with the 2003 remake ) claims to be based on true events, but this is not the case.

According to an interview in Viva, Milford recorded an album Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts and a single, " Help is on the Way, Rozea ".

The incident is now referred to as " The Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre ".

Chain contour length for this polymer is ~ 204 nm ; thickness is ~ 0. 4 nm.

Chain length is related to melt viscosity roughly as 1: 10 < sup > 3. 2 </ sup >, so that a tenfold increase in polymer chain length results in a viscosity increase of over 1000 times.

The development of penicillin for use as a medicine is attributed to the Australian Nobel laureate Howard Walter Florey, together with the German Nobel laureate Ernst Chain and the English biochemist Norman Heatley.

Over ten heavy silver chains, some over 0. 5m long, have been found from this period ; the double-linked Whitecleuch Chain is one of only two that have a penannular ring, with symbol decoration including enamel, which shows how these were probably used as " choker " necklaces.

Sam Cooke's # 5 hit " Chain Gang " is indicative of R & B in 1960, as is Chubby Checker's # 5 hit " The Twist ".

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

SCOR is a supply chain management model promoted by the Supply Chain Council.

Another model is the SCM Model proposed by the Global Supply Chain Forum ( GSCF ).

APICS ' certification is called Certified Supply Chain Professional, or CSCTP, and ISCEA ' S certification is called the Certified Supply Chain Manager ( CSCM ).