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light
Any electromagnetic radiation, but especially that portion of the spectrum visible to the human eye. It is a form of energy that travels through empty space at a speed of about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/s). In the early 19th cent., light was described in terms of waves, but experiments later showed that it exhibits properties of particles as well. Light is the basis for the sensation of sight, and for the perception of color. The eye distinguishes the color of an object as the color of light which the object reflects or transmits. See also optics, wave-particle duality.
right
Portion of the political spectrum associated with conservative political thought. The term derives from the seating arrangement of the French revolutionary parliament (c.1790s) in which the conservative representatives sat to the presiding officer's right. In the 19th cent., the term applied to conservatives who supported authority, tradition, and property. In the 20th cent. a divergent, radical form developed that was associated with fascism. See also left.
cigar
Cylindrical roll of tobacco for smoking, consisting of cut tobacco filler formed in a binder leaf and with a wrapper leaf rolled spirally around the bunch. Wrapper leaf, the most expensive leaf used in cigars, must be strong, elastic, silky in texture, and even in color; it must have a pleasant flavor and good burning properties. Cigars are bigger than cigarettes, and the odor and smoke they produce are stronger. Cigars were being smoked by Maya Indians by the 10th cent.; they were reported back to Spain by C. Columbus and other explorers and became popular there long before they spread to other European countries.
Eigen
German physicist. He received his PhD from the Univ. of Gö ttingen in 1951. He shared a 1967 Nobel Prize with Ronald Norrish (1897-1978) and George Porter (b.1920) for work on extremely rapid chemical reactions. His methods, called relaxation techniques, involve applying bursts of energy to a solution and following the rates of subsequent changes (flash photolysis); reactions thus studied include hydrogen ion formation during water dissociation and keto-enol tautomerism.
Fichte
German philosopher and patriot. Fichte's Science of Knowledge (1794), incited by I. Kant's critical philosophy and especially by Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788), was his most original and characteristic work. To demonstrate that practical reason is really the root of reason in its entirety, the absolute ground of all knowledge as well as of humanity altogether, he started from a supreme principle, the ego, which was supposed to be independent and sovereign, so that all other knowledge was deduced from this principle. He attempted to rally German nationalists against Napoleon in his famous patriotic lectures Reden an die deutsche Nation (1807-8). He is regarded as one of the great transcendental ...
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