AN EXETER BOOKSELLER, HIS FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

Samuel Johnson: his ills, his pills and his physician friends.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the greatest men of his age. Although famed for his writings, especially his Dictionary and his folio on Shakespeare, he is remembered for his tavern conversations, his literary clubs and the great biography of his life by Boswell. He always enjoyed having physicians as his friends, and took a great interest in all branches of medicine. He would advise and ...

morality and literature (charles dickens and his english contemporaries)

examiningg the lilemry works of charls diceens, william makepmce thacktrqy, george elliot and thomas harq)•, the a11thor produces a momic of the victorimr morality in 19th centery e11gla11d. the author comes to tbe concluion that the viaorian age was not as pnritan as it is usually imagined and tlu moral problems that bumankind deals with in the cosrse of its developmml art in their e.mnce 1111...

A Synopsis of the Book Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers

Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. By 1955 computers produced by companies such as Ferranti, English Electric, Elliott Brothers and the British Tabulating Machine Co. had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his conte...

Gilbert Stork: in his own words and in the musings of his friends.

s 1945, 39, 2991(5). Figure 7. Carl Djerassi, learning how to drive a tractor in Tarkio, Missouri, 1941. Photo courtesy C. Djerassi. . Angewandte And Finally 3014 www.angewandte.org 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3012 – 3023 “And then, as I just had thrown it in there, and it fumed furiously and red fumes of who knows what, nitrous oxide of vario...