Search results for "Classics"

Stanislao Cannizzaro and the Development of Chemistry in Palermo from 1862 to 1871

2009

Stanislao Cannizzaro worked at Palermo University for about ten years. There he managed to establish a modern and well-equipped chemical laboratory. His international fame attracted co-workers even from abroad: Naquet, Lieben, and Körner came to Palermo to work with him. This greatly improved the quality of teaching and of research in Palermo, which became a worldwide acknowledged center of chemical culture. In Palermo, atomic-molecular theory was extensively taught and research was carried out on chemical atomicity (valence) and spatial structures of both aliphatic and aromatic organic molecules: Körner found the relative positions of substituent groups on the benzene ring, Paternò proved …

The Translation Scene in Latvia (Latvian SSR) during the Stalinist Years

2018

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] In this paper the author continues to explore the translation scene in 20th century Latvia (Veisbergs 2016a). The period under discussion covers 1945–1953, the years of Stalin’s rule after WWII until his death in 1953. The translation situation is described by discussing nationalisation and centralisation of publishers, book liquidation, censorship, ideologisation and politicisation, russification, Latvian émigré translations and other aspects of importance in an attempt to present the translation scene of the period from different angles. At the end of the article an extensive list of references is provided that can serve as an in…

Emil Fischer — Unequalled Classicist, Master of Organic Chemistry Research, and Inspired Trailblazer of Biological Chemistry

2003

One of the First Liturgical Hymns of the Eastern and Western Christian Church: the Great Doxology – Gloria in excelsis Deo

2015

Abstract The doxological character is one of the essential aspects of the Christian worship, taken from the Hebrew divine worship. Thus, the doxological character of many Christian prayers and liturgical hymns represents the foundation and at the same time the key which reveals and explains the theology of the Creation, its mystery and purpose. The role of the Creation is to praise the Creator, as invited conclusively by the last verse of the last canonical Psalm: ”Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!” (Ps. 150, 6). We will bring to the forefront of our debate the Great Doxology, one of the first liturgical hymns of the three basic doxological structures (the small, the great and…

La Crète des frères Reinach

2019

Joseph, Salomon et Théodore, les frères Je-Sais-Tout des chansonniers de Montmartre et les fils d’Hermann Reinach, homme d’affaires et patron de presse influent, ont, chacun, croisé dans leur vie la Crète. L’aîné, Joseph l’a envisagée alors qu’il rêvait dans sa jeunesse d’ambassades et de carrière diplomatique : les affaires crétoises furent pour l’homme politique un aspect de la question d’Orient. Sans jamais visiter l’île, Salomon l’a inlassablement décrite comme celle de toutes les surpris...

El mito de Icario en la General estoria de Alfonso X

2013

This article studies the myth of Icarus as it is translated in the first part of Alfonso X's General estoria. Its analysis highlights aspects that are usually found in the mythographical episodes of the Alfonsine estoria, particularly linked with its possible sources and its internal characteristics. The latter ones are defined by the anonymity of the quote and an evident moral intention. Regarding the sources, if it is known that the mythography gets to the Alfonsine text through two paths, the gloss in the manuscripts and a mythographical work, the exact source or sources used by Alfonsine historians are still unidentified. I have begun searching where the elements that are found in no pr…

Mechanics in Spain at the End of the 16th Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics

2008

"… But What Should {I} Put in a Digital Apparatus?" {A} Not-So-Obvious Choice: New Types of Digital Scholarly Editions

2017

We propose to develop / expand the concept of “digital edition of a text”. The specific value of a digital edition is not only in the digital form of representation of textual information: dynamic rather than static, resulting in better visual or practical usability, but it mainly lays in the ability to work with computational methods on the text and on the information it conveys. Therefore the digital edition of a text should aim to provide adequate data and functionality to further forms of processing. Hence the idea that the “digital scholarly edition” until now often identified with the “digital critical edition”, can also take other forms focused on other types of ‘scholarly research’:…

Authorship and Greek Song: Authority, Authenticity, and Performance, edited by Bakker, Egbert J.

2019

Three Letters from Sophus Lie to Felix Klein on Mathematics in Paris

2018

Sophus Lie and Felix Klein first met in 1869 as students in Berlin. They soon became daily companions and spent the spring of 1870 together in Paris where they met the French mathematicians Michel Chasles, Gaston Darboux, and Camille Jordan. Jordan had just published his classic Traite des substitutions, and the two foreigners read it avidly. Mathematics has not been the same since, for it has often been said – and not altogether unjustly – that from this moment on they made group theory their common property: Lie taking the continuous groups and Klein those that were discontinuous. It should not be overlooked, on the other hand, that this observation was first made by Klein himself in the …