There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.

" The invention of nuclear and space weapons has made war unacceptable as an instrument for achieving political ends.

Seddon later claimed to be particularly close to Grey, although some historians believe that this was an invention for political purposes.

The latter system came into being in the 18th century as an invention of Sir Isaac Newton, and was in use throughout Great Britain for political rather than practical reasons.

Building upon this growing interest in his life, in 1704 Psalmanazar published a book entitled An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan which purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy, but which was in fact a complete invention on Psalmanazar's part.

The need to win popular support in a republic led to the American invention of political parties in the 1790s.

The fifth book, generally regarded as the most finished and impressive, addresses the origin of the world and of all things that are therein, the movements of the heavenly bodies, the changing of the seasons, day and night, the rise and progress of humankind, society, political institutions, and the invention of the various arts and sciences which embellish and ennoble life.

Most universities are failing to teach their students about capitalism's broader institutional, political, and moral themes ; its links to limited government, progress, and invention ; and the sources of anti-capitalist criticisms.

As has already been suggested, in the absence of any archaeological evidence and with the very low estimate of Roman casualties, the decisive victory reported by Tacitus may be an exaggeration or even an invention, either by Tacitus himself, or by Agricola, for political reasons.

The development of a standard German was impeded by political disunity and strong local traditions until the invention of printing made possible a " High German-based book language.

He also wished to educate its readers in the world ’ s political and scientific developments ; among the items reported in the first year of publication were the struggles of Mazzini against the Habsburg Empire, the drawing up of the Suez Canal project, the invention of the balloon, a census of England, and the doings of cannibals in Borneo.

Alfred Baeumler, an educational philosopher and university lecturer who attempted to provide theoretical support for Nazi ideology ( through the interpretation of Nietzsche among others ) wrote a monograph on Jahn < ref > Alfred Baeumler, < em > Friedrich Ludwig Jahns Stellung in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte </ em > Leipzig, 1940 )</ ref > in which he characterises Jahn's invention of gymnastics as an explicitly political project, designed to create the ultimate völkisch citizen by educating his body.

* The invention of coinage by the Lydians lies really in this innovation, which, however simple it may seem to us now, was then of deep political significance.

These were his words: " Here is the most important challenge to political invention ever offered to the jurist or the statesman.

First of all the shepherd flock relationship was alien to the Greeks as a political model and was an entirely a Christian invention which migrated in a modern sense as shepherd, sheep, flock relationship, which means, roughly translated in modern terms as the political electorate and the political.

This skin-darkening invention was created to flash the white South African ambassador in a desperate attempt to destroy the apartheid regime, but the mission nearly killed Opus and landed Cutter John in Communist Russia where he was held as a political prisoner.

Often, the revolutionary aspect lay not in the act of invention itself, but in its technological refinement and application to political and economic power.

** 1790s, First Party System in U. S. involves invention of locally-rooted political parties in the United States ; networks of party newspapers ; new canvassing techniques ; use of caucus to select candidates ; fixed party names ; party loyalty ; party platform ( Jefferson 1799 );

He is regarded as one of the most important political figures of the First Czechoslovak Republic ; he was the leader of the Agrarian Party, which was dominant within the Pětka, which was largely his own invention.

Information about the pair's invention quickly made their way up the French political hierarchy.

Noteworthy are topoi, places ( common and special topics ) from which an argument can be made ; three offices of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style ; three proofs of rhetoric: ethos ( based on the speaker ’ s or writer ’ s character ), logos ( based on inductive or deductive reasoning ); and pathos ( relies on an audience ’ s sensibility to a particular subject ); three genres of rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial and concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past ), deliberative ( also known as political and concerned with determining whether or not action should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial and concerned with praise and blame, values / ethics / virtue, and skill in the present ).

More recently, the mid-2000s Guinness Brewmasters advertising campaign features the " little black book " as an invention of one of the brewmasters.

A popular story in China tells of the invention of the mantou, a kind of steamed bun, by Zhuge Liang during this campaign.

According to Dr. Gorrie's biographer, Vivian M. Sherlock, the " Ice King ", Frederic Tudor, was suspected for causing his failure when he launched a smear campaign against the invention.

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

On the other hand, we cannot regard artistic invention as pure, uncaused, and unrelated to the times in which it occurs.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

Mr. Brown's invention achieved this and, as a byproduct, formed the cornerstone of Brown & Sharpe's position of leadership in the gear making equipment field which lasted until the 1920's when superceded by other methods.

Some who have written on Utopia have treated it as `` a learned diversion of a learned world '', `` a phantasy with which More amused himself '', `` a holiday work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high spirits, a revel of debate, paradox, comedy and invention ''.

Perhaps Grothendieck's deepest single accomplishment is the invention of the étale and l-adic cohomology theories, which explain an observation of André Weil's that there is a deep connection between the topological characteristics of a variety and its diophantine ( number theoretic ) properties.

Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.

Another invention in the late Middle Ages was the use of Greek fire by the Byzantines, which was used to set enemy fleets on fire.

Another example of ecumenism is the invention of and growing usage of the Christian Flag, which was designed to represent all of Christendom.

are unlikely to become celebrities even if they are enormously successful in their field due to society's disinterest in science, invention, medicine, and courtroom law which is not fictional.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

It accounts for the occurrence of energy transfer by work in a process in which heat is also transferred ; the quantity, however, was considered before the relation between heat and work transfers was clarified by the invention of thermodynamics.

Daedalus ' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, " plainly not Homer's invention ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized.

Among the non-scientific public, his fame spread more effectually by his invention in about 1815 of the kaleidoscope, for which there was a great demand in both the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.

An instrument of more significance, the stereoscope, which – though of much later date ( 1849 ) – along with the kaleidoscope did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster.

After the invention of the telescope, measurements were made by observing occultations of stars by the Moon, which allowed the derivation of more closely spaced and more accurate values for ΔT.

Planck's and Einstein's theories were progenitors of quantum mechanics, which, when formulated in 1925, necessitated the invention of a quantum theory of electromagnetism.

This distinction started around 1906 with the invention by Lee De Forest of the triode, which made electrical amplification of weak radio signals and audio signals possible with a non-mechanical device.

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.