the Peace (1919). This book was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of polemical writing; the best-selling book led Keynes to world fame. Keynes became bursar of that college after returning to his academic works. In 1921‚ he published the book‚ A Treatise on Probability which was considered an important work that laid a philosophical and mathematical foundation of the probability theory. He dedicated much of the 1920s actively contributing to journalism and selling his work domestically and internationally
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Growing Impact of Ayurvedic Treatment ‘Ayurveda’ is a Sanskrit word‚ made up of the words ‘ayus’ (life) and ‘veda’ (knowledge or science). ‘Ayurveda’ thus means ’the knowledge of life’ or ’the science of life’. Ancient Ayurvedic scholar Charaka informs that ‘ayu’ comprises of four parts- mind‚ body‚ senses and soul. Ayurveda is said to have been created by Lord Brahma himself . Ayurveda originated in India and is considered to be the oldest system of medicine in the world. Ayurveda helps in maintaining
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reason alone cannot be a motive to the will‚ moral distinctions are not derived from reason and moral distinctions are direct from the moral sentiments [Treatise of Human Nature‚ 11]. “Reason is‚ and ought only to be the slave of the passions‚ and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them” [T 2.3.3 p. 414] in his work A Treatise of Human Nature. Reason alone cannot motivate or oppose passion. “Reason is perfectly inert and can never either prevent or produce any action or
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hospitals."[1]Islamic writers served as a bridge for Greco-Roman and Byzantine medicine and added ideas of their own especially Haly Abbas‚ Serapion‚ Rhazes‚ Avicenna‚ and Averroes‚ The Persian scholar and doctor al-Razi (865–925) published a short treatise on diseases among children.[3] The first printed book on pediatrics was in Italian (1472) – Bagallarder’s Little Book on Disease in Children.[4]Paulus Bagellardus a Flumine (d.1492) De Infantium Aegritudinibus et Remediis 1472‚ Bartolomaeus Metlinger (d
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Introduction: “You can learn more from solving one problem in many different ways than you can from solving many different problems‚ each in only one way.” Islamic civilization in the middle ages‚ like all of Europe‚ had a dichotomy between theoretical and practical mathematics. Practical mathematics was the common subject‚ “whereas theoretical and argumentative mathematics were reserved for specialists” (Abedljaouad‚ 2006‚ p. 629). Between the eighth and the fifteenth centuries‚ Islamic civilization
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Renaissance architect‚ humanist philosopher‚ and artistic theorist‚ Leon Battista Alberti is considered to be the Renaissance’s "universal man" of learning. In addition to painting‚ designing buildings‚ and writing scientific‚ artistic and philosophical treatises‚ Alberti wrote the first book on Italian grammar and cryptography. Born in Genoa in the year 1404‚ out of wedlock but immediately legitimatized by his father Lorenzo. Leon’s mother‚ Bianca Fieschi‚ was a Bolognese widow. She died during an outbreak
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thoughts go to Germany and Martin Luther. However‚ other parts of Europe experienced the effects of the Reformation too. A man named Martin Bucer played an important role in one of these other European countries. With his support of Thomas Cranmer‚ his treatise of De Regno Christi‚ and his impact on the 1552 revised edition of the English Book of Common Prayer‚ it becomes clear that Martin Bucer played an important role in shaping the English Reformation‚ especially through his view of the Church and state
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present system of identification by fingerprints.” (Saferstein‚ pg. 8‚ 2009) Who is known as “the father of forensic toxicology” and why? Mathieu Orfila was considered the father of forensic toxicology because he published the first scientific treatise of finding poisons and the effects poisons had on animals. Chemistry and a better understanding of the way the body works helped other major contributors get a better understanding of how to detect certain poisons in different areas of the human
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thought and inspire behavior that would best fulfill the requirements for a peaceful society. In his work‚ Treatise on Toleration‚ he engaged in the topic of religious intolerance in France mainly between the Roman Catholics and Protestants‚ in response to the miscarriage of justice Jean Calas‚ who was wrongfully executed for the murder of his son. If the purpose of Voltaire’s writing‚ Treatise on Toleration‚ was to expand the minds of his audience toward multiple avenues of rational thought‚ why does
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included life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness and was not allowed to be taken away by governments. It could be utilized to describe the same political rights that people may have‚ including males and females. However‚ John Locke in the Second Treatise of Government outlines his theory of equality and how it works in his political society‚ known as the common-wealth. Despite‚ Locke writes later in the same paragraph that they are equal and free “unless the lord and master of them all should
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