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121Vikram (name) — Vikram is a male name in the Hindu community. In Sanskrit or Hindi Devanāgarī script, it is written विक्रम. The most common understanding of the name Vikram is valorous one who is wise, brave and strong many Hindu names, the name Vikram has… …
122History of electromagnetism — The history of electromagnetism, that is the human understanding and recorded use of electromagnetic forces, dates back over two thousand years ago, see Timeline of electromagnetism. The ancients must have been acquainted with the effects of… …
123Self-enquiry — (also spelled self inquiry) (Sanskrit IAST|ātma vicāra ) is a practice of meditation designed to rapidly bring about Self realization, Self awareness, spiritual liberation or enlightenment, and is most commonly associated with its most famous… …
124Jain philosophy — (Sanskrit: Jain darsana ; sa. जैन दर्शन) deals extensively with the problems of metaphysics, reality, cosmology, ontology, epistemology and divinity. Jainism is essentially a transtheistic religion of ancient India. [Zimmer (1969), p.182] It is a …
125Roman Historical Institutes — are collegiate bodies established at Rome, for the purpose of historical research, notably in the Vatican archives. These have been set both by ecclesiastical authority, and by national governments. Opening of the Vatican archivesIn the fifteenth …
126Tintoretto — /tin teuh ret oh/; It. /teen taw rddet taw/, n. Il /eel/, (Jacopo Robusti), 1518 94, Venetian painter. * * * orig. Jacopo Robusti born с 1518, Venice, Republic of Venice died May 31, 1594, Venice Italian painter. His father was a silk dyer… …
127Hobbes, Thomas — born April 5, 1588, Westport, Wiltshire, Eng. died Dec. 4, 1679, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire English philosopher and political theorist. The son of a vicar who abandoned his family, Hobbes was raised by his uncle. After graduating from the… …
128science, philosophy of — Branch of philosophy that attempts to elucidate the nature of scientific inquiry observational procedures, patterns of argument, methods of representation and calculation, metaphysical presuppositions and evaluate the grounds of their validity… …
