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power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. André Malraux Les...

sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many. Charles Péguy, Clio (1931) Men write history for many reasons; to try to understand...

modern times, the principal ingredient of our civilization — alas! ...the most important question for the history of culture is: How did our modern natural...

History of algebra is the history of the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols, a unifying thread for almost all...

Mathematics (1888, 1910) A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge (1889) A History of Mathematics (1893, 1919) History of Modern Mathematics (1896)...

The history of logarithms is the story of a correspondence (in modern terms, a group isomorphism) between multiplication on the positive real numbers...

the “Muhammadan” period of Indian history. Richard M. Eaton (December 22, 2000). "Temple desecration in pre-modern India". Frontline. The superficiality...

investigators have built up the modern science. [T]he Alchemical Period... may with propriety be called "The Ancient History of Chemistry." The application...

the renaissance... the third is that of modern mathematics... W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1888). Isaac Newton... went...

A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by the philosopher Bertrand Russell is a conspectus of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to...

and narrow affections. The history of our race and personal religious experience run so closely parallel as to seem to a modern observer almost the same...

concept of optical images that is the basis of modern geometrical optics. Olivier Darrigol, A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth...

humanities and social sciences to designate both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes...

power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. André Malraux Les...

The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; A Historical and Critical Essay (1924) was written by the American philosopher Edwin Arthur Burtt...

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge...

The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Anatomically modern humans, as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including...

The history of quantum mechanics is a fundamental part of the history of modern physics, and has been portrayed to include two quantum revolutions. This...

the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947. Historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was the general editor...

alternative one. This article contains a variety of entries focusing on the history and development of the subject. There was a period when cosmology got started...