Marie Boas Hall’s research while affiliated with Imperial College London and other places

... Furthermore, when a student is confronted with information or models about the world that strongly conflict with a student's prior paradigmatic interpretation of the world this new information is discarded more easily and therefore might inhibit learning. This process, associated with the psychological notion of the confirmation bias, is important in transformative learning theory as well as in paradigmatic theory, as learning is understood as a process of integration within a paradigm or as the transformation of a whole paradigm (post-normal science in Kuhnian terms) (Kuhn 1962;Jurin and Hutchinson 2005;Calleja 2014). ...

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Loonstra, T., Tassone, V. (2024). Paradigms in Climate Change Education: A Taxonomy as a Reflexive Tool for Educators. In: Leal Filho, W., Sima, M., Lange Salvia, A., Kovaleva, M., Manolas, E. (eds) University Initiatives on Climate Change Education and Research. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25960-9_86-1

... The Roman Empire has been known to use coal for household heating in Britannia (Dearne and Branigan, 1995). The dreaded Greek fire, an early incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, is believed to have been partly based on petroleum or naphtha (Partington and Hall, 1999). Speight (2007) covers the history of petroleum utilization and terminology in greater detail. ...

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Development of oil formation theories and their importance for peak oil

... Much as Newton declares to be studying light experimentally, not hypothetically, overall he conceives of particles as atoms (least parts) which are deprived of "form" (geometrical or otherwise). They are pure passive entities, acted upon by forces according to the laws of inertia and gravity (Hall and Hall 1960). Their form comes into play when mathematical theory requires an experimental confirmation, and thus particles can be described as grosser, smaller, or differently shaped. ...

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Corpuscularianism

... 5.55, Ms CI.P. 10j.15, Appendix A), part of whose correspondence have been published, but not yet considered with regard to Boccone (Hall & Hall, 1970, 1975, 1977. ...

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Paolo Boccone and the visual communication of pre-Linnean botany. A comparison between his Leiden herbarium, Paris autoprint and published Icones (1674)

... 67 A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall have identified the HNB as one of the main sources of information from which Oldenburg derived his detailed questionnaire. 68 The extended use of Tupi names to describe the different plants and animals is remarkable in this letter. In the same manner, Oldenburg frequently asks if Piso's reports of Indigenous Brazilians using certain plants and animals for medicinal purposes were correct: "do the more villainous Brazilians hang the aforesaid toads in the sun, collect their bile and foamy spittle, and keep these for their more secret and slowacting poisons?" 69 Whether or not this letter was ever answered is thus far unknown. ...

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Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India

... Ibid.(f. 47, p. 20);Hall and Hall (1962), p. 256 and 280 f. The full paragraph in question first appeared in print in 1893 in Rouse Ball's An Essay on Newton's "Principia." ...

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Physical vs. numerical approximation in Isaac Newton’s Principia

... He proposes the existence of a subtle entity in all material bodies and this entity is causally efficacious. The historians of sciences Marie Boas Hall and Rupert Hall argue that Newton believed that this entity is the cause of all the then known physical phenomena, except for gravity and he might even have thought of this entity as being more fundamental then gravity [7]. ...

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Viewing Consciousness Through the Lens of a Singular Cell Organism: An Empirical Approach

... He published two books "Principia" in the year 1687 and "Optics" in 1704 instead of publishing again in the journals. Many people blame Oldenburg for the rivalry between Newton and Hooke, but evidences suggest that it is not true [8] ; Oldenburg perhaps tried to implement a gatekeeping mechanism for the scientific literature for which he had to pay the price of such dubious allegation. The Philosophical Transactions is still being published regularly and is the world's first and longest-running scientific journal. ...

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Henry Oldenburg: The First Journal Editor

... The authors analyzed the Italian studies to reconstruct a real picture of the medical environment of the time, in search of objective data demonstrating the therapeutic value of transfusion (Farr, 1980;Hall & Hall, 1980). The descriptions of the experiments conducted by surgeons between 1666 and 1668 also provide accurate information to better understand the methods, instruments, and techniques used by different surgeons during this period (Giordano, 1931;1932;1939). ...

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THE ORIGINS OF THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION