Isaac Beeckman
Isaac Beeckman , 1588-1637, Dutch physicist. An early proponent of mathematical reasoning and experimental verification in natural philosophy, he contributed to the modern conception of inertia and free fall and discovered an important hydrodynamic law concerning the rate of flow of water from a vessel. Although his recorded scientific work is largely confined to his Journael (diary) and notes, he influenced scientific development through his personal acquaintance with such famous contemporaries as René Descartes , Pierre Gassendi , and Marin Mersenne, and through his rectorship of the Latin school at Dordrecht.
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Asian students 'body-snatching' target
Newspaper article from: The Press; 10/26/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...poaching, known in Christchurch as "body-snatching". Agents who poach students for...confirmed there were instances of "body-snatching" at Christchurch Airport...One language school even had "body- snatchers" enrol to poach students...
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BODY-SNATCHING; Law Commission next for family tug-of-war
Newspaper article from: The Press; 2/23/2008; ; 580 words
; ...investigate the legality of body-snatching following a Christchurch widow...members of his family took his body to Whakatane to be buried at...people no longer owned their bodies, so relatives often had a...effort to have her husband's body exhumed. He said snatching...
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Body snatching in the 21st century investigated
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...disconcerting. According to former body broker Philip Guyett, desensitisation...months (and) we need 50 knees." Body Brokers is an in-depth look at...roots in the 19th century practice of body snatching. In the absence of tighter regulations...
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Commission to review body snatching
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/31/2006; ; 479 words
; ...2006 Headline: Commission to review body snatching Byline: REBECCA ANNA STOIL Edition...of the 13-month-old baby's body that was stolen from the Ashdod Municipal...activities surrounding the riots and body snatching that took place. The commission...
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Italy Probes Latest Body Snatching
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/20/2001; ; 605 words
; ...03-20-2001 Italy Probes Latest Body Snatching ROME (AP) -- Extortionists. A...on revenge. Five days after the body of Italy's most powerful banker...lines. It's not the first time the body of a prominent figure has been snatched...
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The body snatching habits of medical students
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 9/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...those who had donated their bodies to medical science. And...Anatomy Act in 1832. Human bodies for dissection were in short supply: body snatching from graveyards became a...BMJ), "The raising of bodies, or 'things' as they were...
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Body-snatching ringleader says sorry for causing grief.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 6/13/2008; 538 words
; THE leader of a body-snatching ring which made more than pounds 2m...dentist and his team of more than 12 body cutters. Mastromarino admitted the...risk of death to another person". The body-snatching ring ran for more than four...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Setback in 'body snatching' case
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/23/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...10-23-2008 Setback in 'body snatching' case -- Judge says hundreds...from cadavers in a ghoulish "body snatching" operation run by...harvested more than 1,600 bodies including that of "Masterpiece...proper medical screening. The body parts skin, bone, tendons...
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Beit Shemesh body snatching ends in burial
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/29/2007; ; 430 words
; ...29-2007 Headline: Beit Shemesh body snatching ends in burial Byline: MATTHEW WAGNER...Saturday night drama that began with a body snatching and marathon negotiations...unnecessary mutilation of a human's body after death is considered a desecration...
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New rules not needed - De Bres; 'BODY SNATCHING'
Newspaper article from: The Press; 10/4/2008; ; 641 words
; ...allow police to intervene in "body-snatching" cases may be an over-reaction...police given the power to seize bodies with or without a warrant...paper suggested that after a body was seized, police could negotiate...the parties or hold on to the body until a court order determined...
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body snatching
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
body snatching the stealing of corpses...traffic in stolen bodies was profitable. Those...any dissection of bodies was further aroused...public attack because a body he had purchased for...purpose of selling the bodies; the murderers were...
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body snatchers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...was the gallows. Not enough bodies were provided to supply the...burgeoning numbers of students. Body snatchers (‘grave...later openly, recognized that bodies were being procured beyond...mutilated and dismembered the body, and was specifically designed...dissection with terror. Body ...
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Boas
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the dark. Boas have a stout body, short tail, and a green, brown, or yellow body with either blotches or diamond...at cave entrances at night, snatching bats out of the air as they...breathe while the rest of its body is completely submerged. Anacondas...trees. Tree boas have slender bodies ...
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Frankenstein
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...proliferation of the monstrous body is the anxiety that afflicts...is the novel's subtitle. Body snatching was rendered obsolete a year...available for dissection the bodies of unclaimed paupers. For...proletariat, the destruction of the body politic by the mob in the Reign...
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Corpses
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...autopsy an inspection and dissection of a body after death, usually to determine the cause...resurrectionism the exhuming and stealing of bodies from graves, especially for dissection; body snatching. — resurrection man , n . thanatophobia...
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