I'm pretty sure that the 'British' billion was 1,000,000,000,000 (ie a million million) whereas the US one that has now been adopted is 1,000,000,000 (a thousand million).
reasoning based on a few basic truths by using deductive reasoning based on a few basic truths by using deductive reasoning based on empirical evidence. Sir Francis Bacon believe basic laws of science should be determined by using deductive reasoning based on empirical evidence. Expert answered| imYoung |Points 346|.
Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law Theory. Natural law theory like legal positivism has appeared in a variety of forms and in many. guises. One of the most elaborate statements of natural law theory can be found in. Aquinas who distinguished four types of law: eternal, divine, natural, and man-made. So, according to Aquinas, eternal law reflected God's grand design for the whole shebang. Divine law was that set of principles revealed by Scripture, and natural law was eternal. law as it applied to human conduct.