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Exploring a interval profoundly inspired through the Enlightenment and the economic Revolution, this name exhibits readers vital discoveries that have been made approximately gases, electrical energy, category of dwelling issues, geology, and the universe. It covers scientists resembling Cavendish, Avogadro, Franklin, Volta, and so on.
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Once La Condamine and Bouguer had finished their measurements, Bouguer rejoined the rest of the party heading for Quito, while La Condamine journeyed with surveyor-scientist Pedro Maldonado, governor of Esmeralda, the province in which they were surveying. Traveling by dugout and accompanied by a group of boatmen who had escaped from a slave ship, the two scientists traveled a little-used route up the Esmeralda River to Quito. Surrounded by lush green jungle, hanging vines and diverse, exotic plant and animal life, La Condamine made note of every aspect of his experience.
28 The Rise of Reason Charles Messier and His Catalog Charles Messier (1730–1817) was a comet hunter. Like many astronomers in his day and ours, he was fascinated with finding and tracking those elusive and dramatic visitors in the night skies. During his lifetime he was credited with discovering more than 15 new comets, earning him the nickname of Comet Ferret. Like most dedicated specialists, Messier was a little fanatic about his field of specialty and did not care to be disturbed with irrelevancies.
Had observed the violent power of waves breaking against the shore, and the less dramatic but no less persuasive power of the steady erosion of river beds by meandering rivers. It was quite obvious, said Thales, that water was tremendously important in its ability to change the features of the Earth. Water in fact was so important to Thales’s thinking that he believed it to be the source of everything on Earth, both animate (living) and inanimate (nonliving). The Earth itself, said Thales, could be seen as a ship afloat in a gigantic ocean, and waves of disturbances in that ocean might be the causes of earthquakes as our planet bobbed in its surrounding environment.