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111Pathetic fallacy — The pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thoughts, or sensations. The pathetic fallacy is a special case of the fallacy of reification. The word in this use is related to …
112George Adams (optician) — George Adams Sr ( 1773) was an English optician and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes. Among his works are a Treatise on the Construction and Use of Globes (1766) and an Essay on the… …
113Iron(II) oxide — chembox new ImageFile = ImageSize = IUPACName = SystematicName = OtherNames = Ferrous oxide Iron oxide/Oxidized iron Iron rust Section1 = Chembox Identifiers Abbreviations = CASNo = 1345 25 1 EINECS = EINECSCASNO = PubChem = SMILES = InChI =… …
114Lichtenberg figure — Lichtenberg figures (Lichtenberg Figuren, or Lichtenberg Dust Figures ) are branching electric discharges that sometimes appear on the surface or the interior of insulating materials. They are named after the German physicist Georg Christoph… …
115Video camera tube — In older video cameras, before the mid to late 1980s, a video camera tube or pickup tube was used instead of a charge coupled device (CCD) for converting an optical image into an electrical signal. Several types were in use from the 1930s to the… …
116Hegelianism — is a philosophy developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel which can be summed up by Hegel s the rational alone is real, which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more… …
117Free space — In classical physics, free space is a concept of electromagnetic theory, corresponding to a theoretically perfect vacuum, and sometimes referred to as the vacuum of free space. The definitions of the ampere and meter SI units are based upon… …
118Shapiro delay — The Shapiro time delay effect, or gravitational time delay effect, is one of the four classic solar system tests of general relativity. Radar signals passing near a massive object take slightly longer to travel to a target and longer to return… …
119Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow — Dietrich Heinrich Freiherr von Bülow (1757–1807), Prussian soldier and military writer, and brother of General Count Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow, entered the Prussian army in 1773. Routine work proved distasteful to him, and he read with avidity the… …
120Barometric light — is a name for the light that is emitted by a mercury filled barometer tube when the tube is shaken. The discovery of this phenomenon in 1675 revealed the possibility of electric lighting. The phenomenon and its explanation The earliest barometers …
