History as Science: The Fifteenth-Century Debate in Arabic and Persian

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science

"concepts 'eternels"' (p. 23) to which we must respond. The first two papers (by Hellmut Flashar and Vivian Nutton) survey the similarities and differences between Hippocratic medical ethics and our own. As Nutton points out in the discussion of Flashar's paper, "the relationship between modem medical ethics and those that can be loosely termed Hippocratic is far from simple" (p. 21). "Hippocra...

Journal for the History of Arabic Science

In general the book is a study of the development of the chemical profession , c. 1800 to 1976, and in it there is a skilful blending of the technical content of chemistry and the social factors operating on it from without, together with dissension and rivalry from within. Education, chemical techniques, and the effects of two world wars, industrial depression and the E.E.C. are also dealt wit...

Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century

History of Science. Science in the Nineteenth Century

that show variations comparable to those seen among men and among apes of different species today. These variations accounted for some of the controversy of classification, especially when limited fossil material was available. In subsequent chapters the teeth, skulls and pelves are described in relation to other hominid or pongid fossils. The teeth of the australopithecines were hominoid in sh...