An Illustrated History Of Science: From Agricul...

To be human is to wonder. The impulse to ask questions is hardwired into our DNA, and for three hundred millennia people have been searching for answers. In An Illustrated History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of this discipline in its many strands. Throughout the centuries, our conception of what constitutes 'science' has developed hugely - from ancient natural philosophers and medieval alchemists to Renaissance scholars and Enlightenment reformers. Modern science evokes images of bubbling test tubes and spotless lab coats, but this limited perception inhibits us in truly understanding the progress of science throughout history. Cruse does not fall into this trap. Learn about the development of agricultural tools, the study of weather patterns, mapmaking, mathematics and modern geology. Delve into the cutting-edge science of the 21st century - genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, sustainable energy projects. Cruse even speculates on which breakthroughs are yet to come... Filled with useful timelines, fun facts and profiles of key characters, Illustrated History of Science is a fascinating read that the whole family can enjoy.

An Illustrated History of Science: From Agricul...

The Library of Congress has assembled one of the world'slargest and most diverse collections of scientific andtechnological literature and one that reflects Europe'scenturies-old leadership role in many areas of science. Of theLibrary's four million scientific monographs amassed, most arewritten in English and other major European languages; betweenone-third and one-half are of European provenance. By and large,they are housed in the general collections. All fields arerichly represented, excepting clinical medicine and technicalagriculture, works of which are collected by the NationalLibrary of Medicine and the National Agricultural Library,respectively. The Library has in its possession many of the early seminalEuropean works pertaining to science. The Rare Book and SpecialCollections Division holds an original copy of Sir FrancisBacon's Instauratio Magna, popularly known as Novum organum(London, 1620), which proved persuasive in its explanation of thescientific method. Students of the history of science will beinterested in the Library's complete first edition of the worksof the Greek mathematician Archimedes, published in 1544 underthe Latin title Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia. It is thispublication that allowed Archimedes' largely forgotten essays,composed in the third century B.C., to leap across the centuriesand inspire the mathematical pursuits of Galileo, Descartes, andNewton. In turn, many of the original publications of thesethree scientists are also available at the Library. The literature of scientific societies is well represented,beginning with the earliest published records of the lateseventeenth century--from the short-lived Accademia del Cimentoin Italy, the Royal Society of London, Louis XIV's Académie desSciences in France, and the Akademie der Wissenschaften inBerlin. The Library possesses impressive holdings from latersocieties and academies and actively seeks current materials froma large array of European institutions. With the accelerated pace of information exchange, theresearch demand for periodical literature in the sciences hasgreatly outdistanced the demand for monographic works. Perhaps athird of the Library's collection of 61,000 scientific journalsis from Europe. Thanks to the Smithsonian deposits from 1866through 1941, the Library has extensive scientific serialpublications from Europe for the nineteenth and first half of thetwentieth century. The Library provides strong coverage up tothe present of these and other types of scientific periodicalliterature, including conference proceedings. To aid theresearcher in locating such frequently requested materials,numerous bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, and CD-ROM databases can be found, particularly in the Science and TechnologyReading Room. Petrus Apianus. Astronomicum caesareum (Ingolstadt, 1540). One of the colorful astronomical charts called "volvelles," containing movable plates, which are actually working astronomical instruments still able to give accurate measurements. (Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division) Jefferson's collection contained nearly 400 works from Europedevoted to natural philosophy, agriculture, chemistry, zoology,and the technical arts. It is evident from his correspondencethat Jefferson examined these volumes closely. Among the extantworks from his library is one by the French chemist AntoineLavoisier, published in Paris in the revolutionary year of 1789and entitled Traité élémentaire de chimie, présenté dans un ordre nouveau et d'après les découvertes modernes; avec figures. In aletter to a cousin of James Madison, Jefferson took issue withLavoisier's new terminology, but nonetheless found chemistry"among the most useful of sciences, and big with futurediscoveries for the utility & safety of the human race." The Library's holdings of materials relating to the hardsciences such as chemistry, physics, and astronomy areexceptionally strong, with several East European serial holdingsunique to North America. An early holding in astronomy is theTabulae astronomicae . . . of the Spanish king Alfonso the Wise,published in Venice in 1483. The most significant early work onthe celestial bodies is arguably Nicolaus Copernicus's Derevolutionibus orbium coelestium, Book 6, which rejected theearth-centered Ptolemaic concept. The Library possesses anoriginal edition from 1543. September 21, 2010 )

The College had a vice-president, David Wilson, who had succeeded Samuel Baird as mathematics professor and who was also superintendent of the agricultural department. Wilson resigned shortly after Pugh's death, however, and Professor Jacob Whitman was then named acting president while the trustees sought a permanent successor. In June 1864 the board elected William H. Allen, former president of Philadelphia's Girard College, as the second president of the Agricultural College. A graduate of Bowdoin College in his native Maine, the 56-year-old Allen had taught chemistry and natural history for ten years at Dickinson College in Carlisle, where he also served a year as acting president. In 1850 he left Dickinson to accept the presidency of Girard College, retiring from that post thirteen years later.

Agricultural extension in China provides technology and applications related to all processes during agriculture production through experimentation, demonstration, training, and consulting (Yu, 2009). Agricultural extension worldwide functions as a bridge between research, government agencies, and farmers. In China, extension plays a similar role in vital agricultural development. The agricultural extension system is an integral part of the national agricultural support and protection system and the agricultural social service system, which support a national strategy of developing agriculture through advances in science and technology. This paper describes the history of agricultural extension in China, the legislative background of the agricultural extension system, and the five levels within the current system, which is different from the American counterpart. Challenges within the current agricultural extension system in China are analyzed. Some challenges are not unique in Chinese agricultural extension system, and some solutions may be applicable to the 102-year-old American system, which is facing its own challenges (Henning et al., 2014).

Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom, being a systematic and popular description of the habits, structure, and classification of animals from the highest to the lowest forms, with their relations to agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts

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