philosopher Joseph Priestley (1733 – 1804) discovered oxygen in experiments‚ isolated the gas‚ and described its function in combustion and respiration. He also invented soda or carbonated water by dissolving fixed air with water. Unaware of the significance of his discoveries and because of his stubborn refusal to abandon the phlogiston theory‚ he named the new gas “dephlogisticated air.” However‚ it would be the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) who gave the gas its present name‚ and was
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Pg. 03 HEADLINE: The Pinta‚ Santa Maria‚ and a Chinese junk? BYLINE: By Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor A new book claims the Chinese discovered America in 1421‚ but historians refute thesis. To the Norsemen‚ the Japanese‚ and the Carthaginians; to the Irish‚ the Africans‚ and a long list of others who‚ it is claimed‚ crossed the oceans to America long before 1492‚ add one more: the Chinese. They toured up and down both coasts of the Americas‚ established colonies
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Grant Wright 10/5/12 Carleton 5th The Vikings Discovered America In 1492‚ Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue‚ allegedly. There are quite a few claims on who discovered America; most of them predate Columbus. One recent claim is by Gavin Menzies‚ that China discovered America. I‚ however‚ refute this claim. It’s clear the Vikings discovered out current home from the story of Leif Erikson‚ Vinland‚ and that Menzies’ claim is just absurd. During Bjerni Herjolfssen’s journey to Greenland
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Was mathematic discovered or created. To elaborate on this more‚ we need to define the terminology first. Discovered is the thing always exist. Someone found it. Invented is the thing did not previously exist. Someone created it. What about mathematics? Mathematics is a tool‚ a model. It is something that we can use to describe or model parts of reality‚ or any other system based on quantifiable things. So‚ is mathematic being created or discovered? People have debated about this over
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“Is mathematics discovered or invented?” To commence with this essay‚ we must first understand a few key words used in this statement and question. ‘Mathematics’ is generally believed to be the body of knowledge centered on concepts such as quantity‚ structure‚ space‚ and change‚ and also the academic discipline that studies them. Whereas ‘discover’ and ‘invent’ means to find information‚ a place or an object‚ especially for the first time and to design or create something which has never been made
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Areas of Knowledge: Invented‚ Discovered‚ or Both? One cannot say with certainty that specific areas of knowledge are invented nor can one say with certainty that areas of knowledge are discovered. Two areas of knowledge that deal with this topic are mathematics and natural science. In my opinion‚ I believe that mathematics is an invented area of knowledge with some discovery whereas science is a discovered area of knowledge with some invention. Certain topics and categories of mathematics might
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Family Background Jonas Salk’s parents names were‚ Daniel and Dora Salk. Daniel was Jonas’s father and Dora was Jonas’s mother. Dora was born in 1890‚ it didn’t say a date on any of the sites I went on. Daniel was born in 1890 too‚ it also didn’t say anything about a date on the sites I went on. Dora died in 1964 at the age of‚ 74. Daniel died in 1958 at the age of‚ 68. Dora Salk didn’t do anything for a living. Daniel Salk was a clothing
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Famous Chemists and What They Discovered Svante Arrhenius (1859 -1927) - He was initially a physicist but more popular as a chemist because‚ he was the one who proposed the equation now known as the Arrhenius equation. He was also one of the first chemists who proposed that when in a solution the salt dissociates into ions even in the absence of an electric current. Amedeo Avogadro (1776 - 1856) - He is known for proposing the Avogadro’s Law which states that‚ "Equal volumes of gases contain
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Tourism Development in Australia Introduction The tourism industry is exceptionally complex and is constantly growing in size and competitiveness. Tourism plays a key role in our export industry accounting for 10% of the total export earnings‚ making it Australia’s largest service export industry. These contributions to Australia’s Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) have grown significantly from $25.2 billion in 2002 to $34 billion in 2011 (Kumar Narayan‚ 2006; Department of Resources Energy and Tourism
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According to the text I believe the Americas were both discovered and conquered. The Bering Isthmus allowed nomadic Asian hunters to immigrate throughout the Americas for about 250 centuries. They discovered this land and made tribes that later became the Aztecs‚ Incas‚ Mayans‚ Pueblo Natives and many more. Christopher Columbus accidently came upon an island in the Bahamas which brought the New World to light for the Europeans. As a result‚ the Europeans started sailing to this New World and because
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