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With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s

1983

The “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” and the First World War: The crisis of scientific internationalism: a view through the unedited correspondence of…

2021

Abstract In this work the situation of the “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” between 1914 and 1928 is analyzed. It will be observed that during this time the Circolo was among the few European scientific associations with German as well as French associates. During the 1930s, the nationalist politics of Fascism and above all the racial laws dealt a deadly blow to the Circolo as an international scientific association. We will use the rich correspondence in the Circolo's archives to shed some light on this. In particular, the correspondence between M. De Franchis and E. Landau and other recently found documents will figure prominently.

Porphyry in fragments. Reception of an anti-Christian text in late antiquity. By Ariane Magny. (Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late …

2016

Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?

1990

Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are madeforthem rather thanbythem; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in other cases they are forces acting internally on the agent and over which he has no control. Homeric heroes act in the way Descartes thought an animal acts: agitur, non agit. Such agents ‘handeln nicht eigentlich (d.h. mil vollem Bewuβtsein eigenen Hande…

Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. By Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 271…

2007

Shakespeare-Ausgaben der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft: 1867 bis zur Jahrhundertwende

2020

Abstract The article discusses the various German Shakespeare editions produced by the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society) between its foundation in April 1864 and the end of the 19th century. The society’s eclectic editorial output ranged from a critical edition in 12 volumes (1867–1871), through multi-volume editions for the theatre and for German families (1870–1878), to a cheap one-volume edition (1891). All these editions were based on the Shakespeare translations of August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck and his circle (Dorothea Tieck and Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin), published by the Reimer Publishing House in Leipzig. The editors corr…

'Instructional Manuscripts in England: the Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Codices and the Early Norman Ones'

2007

The essay offers a definition of the kind of manuscript which might have been employed for instructional purposes in late Anglo-Saxon England. The work is based on a complete survey of the content of the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts dating from the tenth to the twelfth century; a full list of such mss is provided in the Appendix. The educational texts in use in the Middle Ages generally occurred within a distinctive category of miscellaneous codices. As far as Anglo-Saxon England is concerned, it is possible to single out a number of ‘instructional’ manuscripts, with diverse but somehow consistent items. The range of educational texts comprised grammar primers as well as some classical and sever…

REVOLUTIONS IN MATHEMATICS

1993

Toward a scientific and personal biography of Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941)

2005

International audience; Tullio Levi-Civita was one of the most important Italian mathematicians in the early part of the 20th century, contributing significantly to a number of research fields in mathematics and physics. In addition, he was involved in the social and political life of his time and suffered severe political and racial persecution during the period of Fascism. He tried repeatedly and in several cases successfully to help colleagues and students who were victims of anti-Semitism in Italy and Germany. His scientific and private life is well documented in the letters and documents contained in his Archive. The authors' aim is to illustrate the events of his life by means of his …

Hans Wußing (1927–2011) and the blooming of the history of mathematics and sciences in the German Democratic Republic – A biographical essay

2012

Authors version of an article published in the journal: Historia Mathematica. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2012.01.004