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Nature
NATURE. No interpretation of the idea of nature is good for all people in all places at all times. The interpretive position here reflects pivotal conceptual developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Charles Darwin's century brought home forcefully the reality of time, of... Read more |
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Century Theatre
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Polygraph
POLYGRAPH An instrument used to measure physiological responses in humans when they are questioned in order to determine if their answers are truthful. Also known as a "lie detector," the polygraph has a controversial history in U.S. law. First developed in the late nineteenth century, its modern... Read more |
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Civil Rights Cases
CIVIL RIGHTS CASES Jim Crow Since before the turn of the century in the South, black Americans had been relegated to the status of second-class citizens, denied by law and legal subterfuge fundamental civil rights such as the right to vote, the right to free assembly, the... Read more |
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Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff , 1819-93, biblical scholar and church historian in America, b. Switzerland. He went to the United States in 1844 to teach in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Mercersburg, Pa. His importance as an interpreter of German theology and (in his writings) as a conveyor of the... Read more |
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Sealing
SEALING SEALING was accepted for centuries as an accepted means of extracting wealth from the sea. Sealing in sub-arctic waters of the North Atlantic began in connection with whaling early in the seventeenth century and developed into a separate occupation late in the eighteenth century. The... Read more |
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Lemuria
Lemuria Lemuria, the lost continent of the Pacific, has been discussed in nineteenth-and twentieth-century occult literature as the Pacific equivalent of Atlantis. It is distinct, however, in that it is a completely modern invention, having originated in the middle of the nineteenth century as a... Read more |
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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philip Cantor
CANTOR, GEORG FERDINAND LUDWIG PHILIP(b. St. Petersburg, Russia, 3 March 1845;d. Halle, Germany, 6 January 1918), mathematics, set theory, philosophy. For the original article on Cantor see DSB, vol. 3.Cantor is best known as the creator of transfinite set theory, a theory of the mathematical... Read more |
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Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff's Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century...
Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff's Interpretation of Nineteen...vision of nineteenth-century American...studies in the nineteenth century is ... |
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Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff's Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century...
...fine studies of Philip Schaff (1819-93...latter half of the nineteenth century. Graham's study is, however...the return of Schaff to his roots...substantial account of Schaff's perceptive ... |
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Cosmos in the Chaos: Philip Schaff's Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century...
...paper. Several books about Philip Schaff have appeared in the past...has been said about this nineteenth-century Swiss-German-American...Graham focuses, as the book's subtitle indicates, on Schaff's ideas ... |
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Phillip Schaff (1819-1893): Portrait of an Immigrant Theologian
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The German Education of Christian Scholar Philip Schaff: The Formative Years,...
...detailed exploration of Schaff's German years of education...Society of Church History, Philip Schaff. I have often said that...knowledge of theology in nineteenth-century Germany as well. It...that all of ... |