Polymath 6.1 Crack.156
Mina Delahoussaye
The main idea in Wanting is based upon the work of French polymath René Girard, who believed humans are taught to want what they want. We imitate each other more than we realize. Our desires are not really our own and understanding this is important for determining what we truly want, or more importantly, what we actually need.
Let\u2019s go back to the beginning, because if you understand the man, you understand where his book came from. Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) was a Victorian polymath: a doctor by trade, but he did all sorts of stuff: he was a consultant on pandemics, he wrote Encyclopedia Brittanica entries and a book about natural theology, he helped catalog several libraries, he invented the scale on the slide rule, and he may have written a paper that contributed to the birth of cinema. Oh, and he was also obsessed with chess problems.
1514 Polish polymath and Catholic cleric, Nicolaus Copernicus mathematician, economist, physician, linguist, jurist, and accomplished statesman with astronomy as a hobby published and circulated to a small circle of friends, a preliminary draft manuscript in which he described his revolutionary idea of the heliocentric universe in which celestial bodies moved in circular motions around the Sun, challenging the notion of the geocentric universe. Such heresies were unthinkable at the time. They not only contradicted conventional wisdom that the World was the centre of the universe but worse still they undermined the story of creation, one of the fundamental beliefs of the Christian religion. Dangerous stuff!
1551 Damascus born Muslim polymath, Taqi al-Din, working in Egypt, described an impulse turbine used to drive a rotating spit over a fire. It was simply a jet of steam impinging on the blades of a paddle wheel mounted on the end of the spit. Like Hero's reaction turbine it was not developed at the time for use in more useful applications.
1636 The first reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound was made by French polymath Marin Mersenne who determined it to be 450 m/s (1476 ft/s). This compares with the currently accepted velocity of 343 m/s (1,125 ft/s; 1,235 km/h; 767 mph), or a kilometre in 2.91 seconds or a mile in 4.69 seconds in dry air at 20 C (68 F).
1665 English polymath, Robert Hooke published Micrographia in which he illustrated a series of very small insects and plant specimens he had observed through a microscope he had constructed himself for the purpose. It included a description of the eye of a fly and tiny sections of plant materials for which he coined the term "cells" because their distinctive walls reminded him of monk's or prison quarters. The publication also included the first description of an optical microscope, and it is claimed, was the inspiration to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who is often credited himself with the invention of the microscope. Hooke's publication was the first major publication of the recently founded Royal Society and was the first scientific best-seller, inspiring a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy.
Leibniz was a polymath and another candidate for the title "The last man to know everything". As a child he learned Latin at the age of 8, Greek at 14 and in the same year he entered the University of Leipzig where he earned a Bachelors degree in philosophy at the age of 16, a Bachelors degree in law at 17 and Masters degrees in both philosophy and law at the age of 20. At 21 he obtained a Doctorate in law at Altdorf. In 1672 when he was 26, his diplomatic travels took him to Paris where he met Christiaan Huygens who introduced him to the mathematics of the pendulum and inspired him to study mathematics more seriously.
Between 1830 and 1834, German polymath and industrialist Carl Ludwig von Reichenbach, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and head of several chemical and iron works and factories carried out large scale experimental research projects. Amongst other things he carried out fractional distillation or pyrolysis (destructive distillation) of organic substances such as coal and wood tar and other organic mixtures to separate them into their component parts, discovering numerous valuable hydrocarbon compounds in the process. These included creosote (a preservative and disinfectant), paraffin (a fuel and lubricant), phenol also called carbolic acid (an antiseptic), pittacal (a lubricant), cidreret (used in synthetic dyestuffs), picamar (a base for perfumes) and many others.
1799 English aristocrat, engineer and polymath, George Cayley, one hundred years before the Wright brothers, outlined the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control. He was the first to understand the underlying principles and to identify the four basic aerodynamic forces of flight, namely weight, lift, drag, and thrust, which act on any flying vehicle.
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