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A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.
Seen more critically, John may have been motivated by the potential of the royal legal process to raise fees, rather than a desire to deliver simple justice ; John's legal system also only applied to free men, rather than to all of the population.
Biological evolution proceeds by random variation in ensemble averages of organisms combined with culling of the less-successful variants and reproduction of the more-successful variants, and macroscale engineering design also proceeds by a process of design evolution from simplicity to complexity as set forth somewhat satirically by John Gall: " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
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"... and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field ; but Jacob was a simple man, dwelling in tents " ().
It gives Everdingen his character as a precursor of Jacob Ruysdael in a certain form of landscape composition ; but though very skillful in arrangement and clever in effects, Everdingen remains much more simple in execution ; he is much less subtle in feeling or varied in touch than his great and incomparable countryman.
He designed a furniture line noted for its simple forms and timeless elegance for the firm of Jacob & Josef Kohn.
For example, it is the Elohist version of the tale of Jacob's ladder in which there is a ladder of angels with God at the top, leading to Jacob later dedicating the place as Beth-El ( House of God ), whereas in the Jahwist tale, it is a simple dream in which God is simply above the location, without the ladder or angels.
Jacob Adler describes it as being written in " pure, simple Yiddish ", avoiding the tendency of many Yiddish historical plays of its time to " Germanize " the Yiddish, especially for Gentile characters, a practice comparable to using many words of Latin origin in one's English.
Other timing instruments were borrowed from physiology ( e. g., the kymograph ) and adapted for use by the Utrecht ophthalmologist Franciscus Donders ( 1818 – 1899 ) and his student Johan Jacob de Jaager in measuring the duration of simple mental decisions.
When generalizing the theory of pendulums of Jacob Bernoulli he discovered a principle of dynamics so simple and general that it reduced the laws of the motions of bodies to that of their equilibrium.
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David Astor died in London at the age of 89 and is buried in All Saints ' Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, in a grave with a simple headstone bearing only his name.
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