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  2. Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle [A] (Attic Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; [B] 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.

  3. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    As megalithic civilizations left no recorded history, little is known of their timekeeping methods. [3] The Warren Field calendar monument is currently considered to be the oldest lunisolar calendar yet found. Mesoamericans modified their usual vigesimal (base-20) counting system when dealing with calendars to produce a 360-day year. [4]

  4. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...

  5. Aristotelian physics - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelian physics is the form of natural philosophy described in the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC). In his work Physics, Aristotle intended to establish general principles of change that govern all natural bodies, both living and inanimate, celestial and terrestrial – including all motion (change with respect to place), quantitative change (change with respect to ...

  6. Temporal finitism - Wikipedia

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    Temporal finitism is the doctrine that time is finite in the past. [clarification needed] The philosophy of Aristotle, expressed in such works as his Physics, held that although space was finite, with only void existing beyond the outermost sphere of the heavens, time was infinite.

  7. A giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2 billion years ago ...

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    Scientists say it was a ‘fertilizer bomb’ for life. Ashley Strickland, CNN. October 22, 2024 at 7:30 AM. ... “Life during the time of the S2 impact was much simpler,” she said. “Consider ...

  8. Ancient meteorite was 'giant fertilizer bomb' for life on Earth

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    The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms.

  9. Works of Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, his writings are divisible into two groups: the " exoteric " and the " esoteric ". [ 1 ]