Asthma and Snoring Elevating the upper body benefits patients with Asthma. On a horizontal mattress it restricts air tubes and increases the difficulty of moving air to vital major organs. The FDA has said that Adjustable Beds aid in the treatment of a number of medical afflictions and illnesses. Snoring is not a problem, except for your partner. Normally adjusting the upper part of the bed to a higher position eliminates or reduces snoring.
Aristotle and Ptolemy. There are few instances of philosophers that have had such a deep influence as Aristotle, or of cosmologists whose theories have endured as long as Ptolemy's. Aristotle's influence is enormous ranging form the sciences to logic.
Originally published in Creation 3, no 3 (August 1980): 29-32. PiÃ¨rre Simon Laplace is famous for his concept that the solar system formed from a spinning cloud of gas. His theory is the combined result of a manâs philosophy, religion, and skills as an observer of the skies. It is important in looking at the Nebular Hypothesis that we understand something of the background of Laplace. In 1749 PiÃ¨rre was born to a middle class family in Beaumont-en-Auge, France.