Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

Sfetcu, Nicolae. (2022) “Romania’s National Nuclear Program for Heavy Water”, in Telework, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31449.39526, https://www.telework.ro/en/romanias-national-nuclear-program-for-heavy-water/   Abstract After the Second World War, Romania felt the need to develop its own energy system, of much greater power, and as independent as … Read More

We will first cite the following problem; a liquid is contained in a vessel which it completely fills; various moving solid bodies are immersed in this liquid; we know the movements of these bodies and we suppose that there is … Read More

Sfetcu, Nicolae, ” Heavy Water – Overview”, in Telework (2022), DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31649.28003, https://www.telework.ro/en/heavy-water-overview/   Abstract An overview of heavy water: definition, properties, uses (with emphasis on the use of heavy water in nuclear reactors as a moderator and coolant). Technologies … Read More

When we consider the various problems of integral calculus which naturally arise when we want to go deeper into the most different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies that all these problems present … Read More

The history of philosophy has evolved like history in general; the meticulousness brought to the search for sources would not be explained without the will of the historian to arrive at what is individual, irreducible, personal in the past; his … Read More

Before Auguste Comte, Hegel had an equal concern to make the apology of systems, by showing that their diversity is not opposed to the unity of the spirit: “The history of philosophy, says he, makes manifest, in the various philosophies … Read More

Hellenism is no longer seen as a decadence, but as a beginning. Thus a framework of the historical development of philosophy is fixed, where we see a purely Western philosophy beginning with the Greek thinkers of Ionia, finding its type … Read More

It is in the works of the “sectarians” rather than in the works of pure erudition that we must look for the proper history of doctrines. One of these sects has, from the point of view which occupies us, a … Read More

A good word processing software needs to be used for the manuscript preparation on the computer for publishing. If the author himself inputs the content into the word processor, chances are rare to have typos in the document. If the author … Read More

Does philosophy have a law of development, or is the succession of systems contingent and dependent on the chance of individual temperaments? This question is among all important; the history of philosophy has a long past behind it, which weighs … Read More

What is the degree of independence of the history of philosophy with regard to the history of other intellectual disciplines? We refuse to pose it dogmatically, as if it were a question of settling the question of the relationship of … Read More

The first question, that of origins, remains unresolved. Alongside those who, with Aristotle, made Thales the first philosopher in the sixth century, there were already historians in Greece who traced back beyond Hellenism, to the barbarians, the origins of the … Read More