Edward Mazurs history of the periodic table published in 1957 was the most complete history of its kind. The periodic table of chemical elements is the essential science reference. This book is an excellent history of the tabulation. Continue reading Edward Mazurs, “Graphic Representations of the Periodic System During One Hundred Years”, 1957.
Charles Hinton in 1880 published an article entitled “What is the Fourth Dimension“. Here I present: Charles Hinton, “Fourth Dimension: A Language of Space”, 1906 which was a mathematics text. The periodic table of “universal” chemical elements presented by Dimitri Mendeleev required a new geometry. Hinton was the first the mathematician of other dimensions. The … Continue reading Charles Hinton, "Fourth Dimension: A Language of Space", 1906.
Robert Whittaker in 1969 put forth the “Five Kingdoms of Life”. The hyperlink is to that post. The “Plant Kingdom” is of multicellular eukaryotes. “Photosynthetic Periodicity” in the table above includes unicellular prokaryotes in a domain of three kingdoms. All of the divisions above are edible vegetation. In Japanese cookery, Red, Green & Brown … Continue reading Photosynthetic Periodicity.
Here I present: Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham, “Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa”, 1980. Joseph Needham wrote a history of the science and civilization of China. It was an encyclopedic work consisting of many large volumes. I thus choose this book written by him and a Chinese colleague on the … Continue reading Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham, “Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa”, 1980.
The Five Kingdoms taxonomy of Robert Whittaker is based nutritive modes. Animal is an ingestive mode kingdom. Plant is a photosynthetic kingdom. Fungi is an absorbing nutritive kingdom. Animal, Plant and Fungi are multicellular organisms. Protist are unicellular eukaryotes. Monera are unicellular prokaryotes. A domain is grouping of kingdoms. Eukaryota is a domain of … Continue reading Robert Whittaker (1969), Five Kingdoms of Life.
