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Albert Eagle
Albert Eagle was an English mathematician and philosopher who wrote several books (some of them privately published) giving his forcefully expressed and somewhat eccentric views on science and mathematics. Biography He was an assistant to J. J. Thomson, and was later a lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester. His best-known book is on elliptic functions, where he uses his idiosyncratic mathematical notation, such as τ instead of π/2, and !''n'' for ''n'' factorial. In his other writings he dismissed special relativity, quantum mechanics and natural selection as absurdities. Eagle's book ''The Philosophy of Religion versus The Philosophy of Science'' criticizes the theory of relativity and the philosophy of materialism. Eagle was influenced by Henri Bergson and believed that spiritual forces guide evolution (spiritual evolution). Eagle has been described as a pantheist Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical with divin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria University Of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. After the demerger of the Victoria University, it gained an independent university charter in 1904 as the Victoria University of Manchester. On 1 October 2004, the Victoria University of Manchester merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form a new, larger entity named the University of Manchester. History 1851–1951 Owens College was founded in 1851, named after John Owens, a textile merchant, who left a bequest of £96,942 for the purpose. Its first accommodation was at Cobden House on Quay Street, Manchester, in a house which had been the residence of Richard Cobden. In 1859, Owens College was approved as a provincial examination centre for matriculation candidates of the University of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
