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6 hours ago · Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡaʊs] ⓘ; [2] [3] Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. He ranks among history's most influential mathematicians and has ...
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6 hours ago · 14. Educational Reform: It influenced the development of educational systems, promoting the study of science and the importance of critical thinking skills. 15. Global Exploration: Scientific advancements made navigation more accurate, facilitating global exploration and the expansion of European empires. 16.
6 hours ago · Seeking to introduce a complex, dynamic, and multidimensional world of experience and scientific measurement to a larger audience, Humboldt invented a new genre that crossed the boundaries of aesthetics and science, something of exceeding importance in an age of climate change and the search for suitable genres.
6 hours ago · Therefore, the quest for knowledge became the modus of human existence—an ontological anxiety expressed initially in the Renaissance’s and the Enlightenment's ubermenschen's materialist turn, then embraced and in some respect tarnished by Futurism. It is now embodied in the sense of a new materialism befitting the Information Age.
6 hours ago · Abstract. The Introduction argues that the ‘Anthropocene’ and critiques of it rely on a geo-logic of the ‘cene’ that strands those seeking a different spatial future in the very logic to be un-done. We introduce a transdisciplinary framework, the Black Outdoors, to center attention on the circuitries of Black life-making that have ...
6 hours ago · Similar paternity-seeking is seen in the “Reason” claimed by various Fathers of the Enlightenment (some of whom fashioned sciences to justify racial supremacy) and by the Founding Fathers of the US, identified and lionized as such in the early twentieth century. (Eze, 1997; c.f. Bernstein 2009; Schactman 2014).
