Sentence examples for historical scientists from inspiring English sources

This seemingly odd convergence has actually been observed by several historical scientists, including Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci, both of whom suggested that a mathematical law could explain the resistance of wooden beams under stress.

However, when confronted with totally unexpected phenomena, such as the first evidence for invisible radiation, experimental scientists often use the same approach as historical scientists: construct a set of hypotheses about the causes and then look for a "smoking gun".

When trying to explain past phenomena, paleontologists and other historical scientists often construct a set of hypotheses about the causes and then look for a smoking gun, a piece of evidence that indicates that one hypotheses is a better explanation than others.

Fourth, in some cases the historical scientist will deliberately study groups of individuals, say, late-medieval serfs in Holland.

While human subjects in their practical lives constantly engage in valuations resulting in positive or negative value-judgments, the historical scientist must abstain from every act of valuation and limit herself to the ascertainment of objective value-relations in the cultural materials under scrutiny.

When I arrived at Horner's camp I was surprised to come upon a patient historical scientist, sitting cross-legged before a cervical vertebrate from a 140-million year old Apatosaurus (formerly known as Brontosaurus), wondering what to make of it.

Cases or problems are often addressed cogently from a single perspective, whether of a contemporary individual or a renowned historical scientist.

In his talk, Dr. Weinberg described the anthropic principle as "the sort of historical realization scientists have been forced to make from time to time".

It is the work of philosophically minded historians and historical social scientists treating familiar but badly understood historical concepts: causation, historical epoch, social structure, human agency, mentality, and the like.

Another Marxist philosophical concept that allows the historical materialist scientist to understand the logic of a specific mode of production is that of "contradiction".

There are plenty of sites dedicated to claiming science is wrong because it contradicts personally held beliefs or theories, but the top result is, thankfully, a Science Discovery article about historical examples of scientists being wrong.