Western philosophy Aristotelian Main articles: Four causes and Potentiality and actualityAristotle identified four kinds of answer or explanatory mode to various "Why?" questions. As a result of tradi ...
When used in the context of ethics, the meaning of universal (from Gk. katholikos) refers to that which is true for "all similarly situated individuals." Rights, for example in natural rights, or in ...
During his life, and especially in the last ten years after retirement, Huxley wrote on many issues relating to the humanities.Perhaps the best known of these topics is Evolution and Ethics, which dea ...
For nearly a decade his work was directed mainly to the relationship of man to the apes. This led him directly into a clash with Richard Owen, a man widely disliked for his behaviour whilst also being ...
Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, then a village in Middlesex. He was the second youngest of eight children of George Huxley and Rachel Withers. Like some other British scientists of the ninetee ...
As a consequence of his explorations, Humboldt described many geographical features and species of life that were hitherto unknown to Europeans. Species named after him include:Spheniscus humboldti — ...
Early life and education Humboldt was born in Berlin in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt, belonged to a prominent Pomeranian family; a major in the Prussian Arm ...
Zoologischer Garten Berlin, the older of two zoos in the city, was founded in 1844 and presents the most diverse range of species in the world. It was the home of the captive-born celebrity polar bear ...
Berlin is subdivided into twelve boroughs (Bezirke). Each borough contains a number of localities (Ortsteile), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Gre ...
Main articles: History of Berlin and Timeline of BerlinEtymology The origin of the name Berlin is uncertain. It may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Ber ...
Universities created by bilateral or multilateral treaties between states are intergovernmental. An example is the Academy of European Law, which offers training in European law to lawyers, judges, ba ...
The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc." At the time of the emergence of urban ...
Waldseemüller was born in Wolfenweiler, and then his family moved to near Freiburg im Breisgau (his mother came from Radolfzell) and he studied at the University of Freiburg. He died 16 March 1520, ...
The wall map consists of twelve sections printed from woodcuts measuring 18 by 24.5 inches (46 cm × 62 cm). Each section is one of four horizontally and three vertically, when assembled. The map uses ...
His early years (from 1627) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick. Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg (1640-1642), and at K?nigsberg (1643-1645) ...
