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• History of Physics —     History of Physics     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Physics     The subject will be treated under the following heads: I. A Glance at Ancient Physics; II. Science and Early Christian Scholars; III. A Glance at Arabian Physics; IV.… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Physics in medieval Islam — is the development of physics in the medieval Islamic world in the history of physics. In the course of the expansion of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars encountered the science, mathematics, and medicine of antiquity through the works of… …   Wikipedia

• History of the transistor — Invention of the transistor= The first patent [patent|US|1745175|Julius Edgar Lilienfeld: Method and apparatus for controlling electric current first filed in Canada on 22.10.1925, describing a device similar to a MESFET] for the field effect… …   Wikipedia

• History of energy — The word energy derives from Greek ἐνέργεια ( energeia ), which appears for the first time in the work Nicomachean Ethics [ [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3aabo%3atlg%2c0086%2c010%3a1098b%3a33 vers=original… …   Wikipedia

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• Physics — (Greek: physis φύσις), in everyday terms, is the science of matter [R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands (1963), The Feynman Lectures on Physics , ISBN 0 201 02116 1 Hard cover. p.1 1 Feynman begins with the atomic hypothesis.] and its motion …   Wikipedia

• History of Medicine —     History of Medicine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Medicine     The history of medical science, considered as a part of the general history of civilization, should logically begin in Mesopotamia, where tradition and philological… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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