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Periodic System Listen The sheer multitude of chemical elements is very challenging to chemists in the 19th century. They ask themselves, whether there are still yet undiscovered new elements. A Russi
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Metamorphosis Listen Maria Sibylla Merian started to observe caterpillar cocoons and make drawings of those at the age of 13. Nineteen years later, she published her first book in which she layed out
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Nourishment Listen "There's lots to be done, but they had an idea how to show, that the human body burns food." The fascinating path, which may have led to this discovery, is depicted in Antoine Laure
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stress different aspects of the scientific work, will provide insight into Joule's set of experiments by which he determined the ratio of heat and mechanical work. Joule and Energy The immediate use of solar
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Electricity Listen In 1778, a strange line pattern in the grass leads Martin, Andreas and Michael to a talk of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. He describes the geneation of these patterns in his laborato
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Atoms Listen Here, a fictive dispute between Democritus and Plato shall represent the counterpart images in the antiquities on the composition of matter. It is remarkable, that Democritus, whose idea
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Biology Listen The dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman is trying to cure people from a strange illness. Beri-Beri was known in the dutch colonies for a long time, but researchers were unable to identif
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stress different aspects of the scientific work, will provide insight into Joule's set of experiments by which he determined the ratio of heat and mechanical work. Joule and energy The immediate use of solar
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6. Science has a subjective aspect to it. 7. Science is influenced by historical, cultural, and social factors. 8. While science and technology influence each other, they are not the same. 9. Science
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of heat, Benjamin Thompson's workthat led him to interpret heat as motion, and Augustin pioneering work in the use of solar energy. Atoms with stories that deal with the question of mass conservation in [...] Marie's daughter Irène and her demonstration of artificial radioactivity. Vacuum with a story on the work and ideas of Otto Guericke.