August Wilson's Legacy Felt Strongly by Those Who Perform His Works

Leonhard Euler: His Life, the Man, and His Works

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary (on April 15, 2007) of Euler’s birth, an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, ...

Who wrote Bacon? Assessing the respective roles of Francis Bacon and his secretaries in the production of his English works

In an earlier study that identified previously unrecognized writings of the young 15 Thomas Hobbes, questions were raised about the authorship of some of Francis Bacon's published works. This article reports a follow-up study in which two independent statistical analyses of Bacon's English works both conclude that, whereas Bacon's autographic writings show clearly that they are authored by the ...

Who should perform thoracoscopy?

Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy

studies, that "illness" as well as "disease" should be understood, and this within a holistic perspective of all the forms of therapy available within the "health care system" of a culture. Yet the empirical research embodied in this book is fascinating and important. Over the better part of a decade, Dr. Kleinman did field-work in Taiwan, investigating, from the point of view of the patient as...

Henry Darcy (1803–1858): Immortalised by his scientific legacy

Darcy’s Law is the fundamental equation describing the flow of fluid through porous media including groundwater. It forms the quantitative basis of many science and engineering disciplines including hydrology, hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering, petroleum engineering and chemical engineering. The year 2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Darcy’s most famous t...