Website owner: James Miller
Inventions, discoveries, seminal works
850 AD Chinese invent gunpowder
1450 Invention of printing press by Johannes Gutenberg
1492 Columbus discovers America
1517 Luther: 95 theses against indulgences
1522 Magellan circumnavigates the earth
1543 Copernicus: theory of sun-centered universe
1543 Vesalius: “On the structure of the human body” — beginning of science of anatomy
1556 Agricola: De Re Metallica, 12 volume work on mining and metallurgy
1591 Vieta: invents symbolic algebra
1600 Gilbert: De Magnete (work on magnetism)
1610 Galileo: Starry messenger
1618 Kepler: On celestial harmonies
1628 Harvey: theory of circulation of blood
1637 Descartes: analytic geometry
1661 Boyle: Sceptical Chymist
1678 Huygens: Treatise on Light
1687 Newton: Principia
1730's Linnaeus: classification of plants
1740's Franklin, Du Fay: work in electrostatics
1774 Priestley: discovery of oxygen
1775 James Watt: improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine (the first practical steam engine)
1785 Coulomb: electric force law
1785 Hutton: Theory of the earth
1780's Rumford: experiments on the nature of heat
1750 - 1800 Euler, D’Alembert, Lagrange: mathematization of mechanics
1789 Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
1798 Edward Jenner: smallpox vaccination
1800 Laplace: Celestial Mechanics
1808 Dalton: atomic theory
1810's Cuvier, Lamarck: paleontology
1821 Cauchy: foundations of calculus
1800 - 1820 Volta, Oersted, Ampere: work in current electricity and electromagnetism
1800 - 1860 Faraday: research on electricity
1840's Joule, Mayer: conservation of energy
1859 Darwin: Origin of Species
1860's Maxwell: electromagnetic theory
1863 Pasteur: microbiology
1866 Mendel: heredity
1867 Joseph Lister: use of antiseptic in surgery
1869 Periodic table of elements
1872 Brayton internal combustion engine
1876 Alexander Graham Bell: telephone
1882 Robert Koch: discovered the bacterial cause of tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and other diseases
1886 Bentz: automobile
1895 Roentgen: discovery of X-rays
1898 Radium discovered
1903 Wright brothers: airplane
1905 Einstein: theory of relativity, photon concept
1911 - 1913 Bohr, Rutherford: atomic model
1920 - 1930's Quantum mechanics
1939 Atomic fission
Jesus Christ and His Teachings
Way of enlightenment, wisdom, and understanding
America, a corrupt, depraved, shameless country
On integrity and the lack of it
The test of a person's Christianity is what he is
Ninety five percent of the problems that most people have come from personal foolishness
Liberalism, socialism and the modern welfare state
The desire to harm, a motivation for conduct
On Self-sufficient Country Living, Homesteading
Topically Arranged Proverbs, Precepts, Quotations. Common Sayings. Poor Richard's Almanac.
Theory on the Formation of Character
People are like radio tuners --- they pick out and listen to one wavelength and ignore the rest
Cause of Character Traits --- According to Aristotle
We are what we eat --- living under the discipline of a diet
Avoiding problems and trouble in life
Role of habit in formation of character
Personal attributes of the true Christian
What determines a person's character?
Love of God and love of virtue are closely united
Intellectual disparities among people and the power in good habits
Tools of Satan. Tactics and Tricks used by the Devil.
The Natural Way -- The Unnatural Way
Wisdom, Reason and Virtue are closely related
Knowledge is one thing, wisdom is another
My views on Christianity in America
The most important thing in life is understanding
We are all examples --- for good or for bad
Television --- spiritual poison
The Prime Mover that decides "What We Are"
Where do our outlooks, attitudes and values come from?
Sin is serious business. The punishment for it is real. Hell is real.
Self-imposed discipline and regimentation
Achieving happiness in life --- a matter of the right strategies
Self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline basic to so much in life