The consequence of this early date is that due to the precession of the equinoxes, the borders on a modern star map, such as epoch J2000, are already somewhat skewed and no longer perfectly vertical or horizontal.

The name Eocene comes from the Greek ( eos, dawn ) and ( kainos, new ) and refers to the " dawn " of modern (' new ') mammalian fauna that appeared during the epoch.

Alces alces ( modern moose ) appeared during the late Pleistocene epoch.

* 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch ( origin ) of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar ).

The much briefer epoch of modern philosophy based itself rather on the instruments of human knowing, but in a way that unnecessarily compromised being.

The date of Friday December 13 20: 45: 52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch.

" Heidegger does not unequivocally condemn technology: while he acknowledges that modern technology contains grave dangers, Heidegger nevertheless also argues that it may constitute a chance for human beings to enter a new epoch in their relation to being.

The now-extinct species include: Acinonyx pardinensis ( Pliocene epoch ), much larger than the modern cheetah and found in Europe, India, and China ; Acinonyx intermedius ( mid-Pleistocene period ), found over the same range.

In prehistoric times, particularly the Miocene epoch, portions of the landforms now in the area ( then marshy and grassy savanna ) were populated by a wide range of now extinct mammals, known in modern times by the fossil remains excavated in the southern part of the county.

Many historians have identified the early modern period as the epoch in which individuals began to think of themselves as belonging to a national polity — a notable break from medieval modes of self-identification, which had been largely based upon religion ( belonging to a universal Christendom ), language, or feudal allegiance ( belonging to the manor or extended household of a particular magnate or lord ).

Fossils belonging to the genus Bassariscus, which includes the modern ringtail and cacomistle, have been identified from the Miocene epoch, around 20 million years ago.

In the tradition of the classical Marxists, Mandel tried to characterize the nature of the modern epoch as a whole, with reference to the main laws of motion of capitalism specified by Marx ; and to show how the same forces which boosted profitability after the world war must ultimately turn into their dialectical opposites, and cause its decline.

The East typifies the infinite, Greece the finite or reflective epoch, the modern era the stage of relation or correlation of infinite and finite.

He thus created an epoch in German literature, philosophy and law, and, along with Spittler, began the modern period of ecclesiastical history.

* October 7, 3761 BC — The epoch ( origin ) of the modern Hebrew calendar

This work, which Lessing recommended as " a novel of classic taste ," marks an epoch in the development of the modern psychological novel.

Sometimes astrophysicists distinguish between the visible universe, which includes only signals emitted since recombination — and the observable universe, which includes signals since the beginning of the cosmological expansion ( the Big Bang in traditional cosmology, the end of the inflationary epoch in modern cosmology ).

The most benevolent and progressive rule of only 28 years from 1894 to 1922 of Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur was a distinct epoch and an important landmark in the history of modern Maharashtra as it engendered a number of socio-religious movements of a revolutionary nature like the Vedokta Movement, the Satya Shodhak Movement.

The earliest known members of the genus are known from early Miocene epoch fossils indistinguishable in anatomy from the modern green lizards such as Lacerta viridis.

The theory of distribution is considered now as the calculus of the modern epoch.

* 600, 000 and 150, 000 years ago when archaic Homo sapiens dominated regions in the Pleistocene epoch ( several members during this period are considered fully modern Homo sapiens )

He worked at a teacher in Cernăuţi, Craiova, Iaşi, Bucharest and he remained a bright personality of that epoch of formation for the Romanian modern educational system.

But her parentage is not reliably testimonied in documentation of their epoch, instead it is regarded only as a good possibility by usual modern genealogical literature.

It is considered a book that marks an epoch in the modern history of medicine.

But the primitive method of explaining the unknown with what is known bears at least a symbolic resemblance to the methods of modern science.

But alchemy differs from modern science in the inclusion of Hermetic principles and practices related to mythology, religion, and spirituality.

His system included modifying the way we consider the world, e. g., with an attitude of " I don't know ; let's see ," to better discover or reflect its realities as revealed by modern science.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

The death of André-Marie Ampère occurred decades before his new science was canonized as the foundation stone for the modern science of electromagnetism.

He was intolerant of what he regarded as loose speculation parading as theory, and sought through his writings to save his beloved science of chemistry from what he regarded as the scourge of modern structural theory.

Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

The modern culture of cognitive science can be traced back to the early cyberneticists in the 1930s and 1940s, such as Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, who sought to understand the organizing principles of the mind.

The modern computer, or Von Neumann machine, would play a central role in cognitive science, both as a metaphor for the mind, and as a tool for investigation.

The mountain gorilla, giant squid and Hoan Kiem Turtle are other examples of extant species that were brought to the attention of modern science but formerly thought to be cryptids.

These wonders are important achievements of society, science, culture and defense, ranging from the Pyramids and the Great Wall in the Ancient age, to Copernicus ' Observatory and Magellan's Expedition in the middle period, up to the Apollo program, the United Nations, and the Manhattan Project in the modern era.

Earth and the other Greek classical elements were incorporated into the Golden Dawn system despite being considered obsolete by modern science.

For example, one begins to answer the question " Why did China not develop modern science and capitalism?

" by asking the question " Why are we assuming that what China did develop was not modern science and capitalism?

" This then brings up the question of what are the essential characteristics of modern science and capitalism, and whether it makes any sense at all to apply European concepts to Chinese history.

Historian of science Thierry Bardini argues that Engelbart's complex personal philosophy ( which drove all his research ) foreshadowed the modern application of the concept of coevolution to the philosophy and use of technology.

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.

In rapidly changing fields such as science, technology, politics, culture and modern history, the Britannica has struggled to stay up-to-date, a problem first analysed systematically by its former editor Walter Yust.

He is further considered by many to be the “ father of modern educational science ” ( Hayes, 2007, p. 2 ).

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.