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Fooled by the media.(April Fool's Day)
Contemporary Review
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April 1, 1999|
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Geoffrey Humphrys
We should rub the sleep from our eyes quickly on Thursday, April 1, if there are schoolchildren in the home. They mainly keep the April fool customs alive today, but some adults never grow too old for practical jokes. So much so that with the media entering into the spirit of the day, British newspaper, radio and television pranks have produced April fools by the million.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present some improbable situation in such a convincing manner that people fall for it on the spur of the moment, then later ...
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Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...have been called, are the astronomer Christoph Scheiner and the theologian Melchor Inchofer. Scheiner believed that he had seen the sunspots...dispute. Recent scholars are less hard on Scheiner than used to be the case, but Inchofer...
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Improving Functional Vision Through Elimination of Spherical Aberration
Magazine article from: Ophthalmology Times
; ...has a history as far back as the early 160Os, when Christoph Scheiner, an astromer and mathematician best known for his...physiology of vision in his Oculus (1619).8 The "Scheiner Optometer", the original wavefront apparatus, was...
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HOW & WHY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Gingerich says. Amateur stargazers use the same method today to observe sunspots safely. A German astronomer, Christoph Scheiner, claimed to have discovered sunspots independently at the same time. However, he interpreted the dark spots on...
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Lettres Latines.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...distributing astronomical observations, and working to reconcile hostile parties, such as Galileo and the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner, or Descartes and the artisan Ferrier. He writes a poem upon the death of Wilhelm Schickard, a model for combining...
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Beyond the Laboratory
Magazine article from: Humanities
; ...Invention, which was published in 1998. Intellectual Property The dispute between scientist Galileo Galilei and Jesuit Christoph Scheiner over who discovered sunspots set off a rivalry that lasted decades and helped trigger Galileo's inquisition and...
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Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...periodicity and change in time, are the central focus of chapter 3, on the sunspot controversy between Galileo and Christoph Scheiner. Finally, in chapter 4, Biagioli attempts to show how Galileo's use of the metaphor of the book of nature emerged...
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Austrian Inventors Develop Vaccine Against Cancer
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Christoph Zielinski, Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Heimo Breiteneder and Hubert Pehamberger, all from Vienna, Austria, and Otto Scheiner of Perchtoldsdort, Austria, have developed vaccine against cancer. According...
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Artificial life experiments show how complex functions can evolve.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly
; ...Nature, Richard Lenski, Charles Ofria, Robert Pennock, and Christoph Adami reported that the path to complex organisms is paved...functions arise from mutation and natural selection," said Sam Scheiner, program director in the division of environmental biology...
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