Chapters in Iowa's Financial History

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

l•In Chapter I* it was shown that the compass had been brought into use in northwestern Europe for the purposes of navigation by the year 1187, that its first mention in the literature of that year does not refer to it as being of recent introduction, that the discovery of the directive property of a magnet in the Earth's f•eld must have preceded this application by some considerable time, but ...

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

1--The science of Terrestrial Magnetism is based on the fact that a magnet, free to move about its center of gravity, tends to assume a position of relative rest in an approximately definite direction with respect to the geographical meridian and the vertical at the place of observation. That it should do so must be due to the existence of a field of force which is known as the terrestrial magn...

Chapters in the social history of medicine in Brazil

Four chapters in the history of Australian cardiology.

In an endeavour to present the outline of the development of cardiology in Australia as a continuing process, gradually gaining its own individual characteristics, attention was arrested by certain outstanding individuals and important milestones. Rather than attempt to cover the entire subject, an undertaking too ambitious for the present study, four chapters are offered to illustrate the prog...

Ten Chapters in Turbulence

This interesting volume is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Inertial-Range Dynamics and Mixing held in the fall of 2008 at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. As the title indicates, it consists of 10 independent chapters, each written by prominent turbulence researchers. The preface includes musings on the difficulty of the subject and the hope for a satisfactory theory. Chapters 1–4 focus...