"[I]t is now thought that it may be proved to be a unique asteroid or an extraordinary comet-like object," Science reported.
NEAR's solar panels will reflect the sun's light during its swift passage, treating observers to an ephemeral "sunglint" as bright as the night's most brilliant stars Last June, the $210 million spacecraft flew within 1200 kilometers of the asteroid Mathilde, dazzling planetary scientists with images of a primitive and severely battered object (Science, 4 July 1997, p. 30).
In this paper, we argue that by positioning visual representations as epistemic objects, science education can bring a renewed focus on how visualization contributes to knowledge formation in science from the learners' perspective.
They have been used with great success in "lucky" imaging, for adaptive optics systems and also in high-speed faint object spectroscopy science programs.
We can peruse an ivory flask for holding gunpowder with a built-in watch and a tiny hunting scene beautifully carved on the front, a clever object advertising science, power and wealth.
Relying on the concepts of formal mathematics and linguistics, Radcliffe-Brown and other structuralists tried to determine whether in cultural anthropology it was possible to reveal that which "suggests the character of a system" beyond empirical reality and which "alone is the true object of science" (Lévi-Strauss).
The former belonging to the Act, as the latter does to the Object of Science" (311, brackets added).
The section occurs toward the end of the book, and begins: "It is the object of science to replace, or save experiences, by the reproduction and anticipation of facts in thought.
If the object of science is to grasp things as they are, independent of knowers, then it is important to draw a sharp distinction between the knower and the known.
For Kant, speculation does not, and cannot, give us knowledge of being, nor should we begin with being as the object of science, as is seen in the medieval principle of existential non-contradiction.
Wodeham, in turn, rejected both these positions and stated that the object of science was an actual state of affairs which could only be signified through a complex or a proposition.
