Chas S. Clifton, Graham Harvey, éds., The Paganism Reader

Supervisor : Kim Marriott Second Reader : Graham

Harvey ’ s bloody motion : Creativity in science

In this paper, we show how the discovery of the circulation of the blood by William Harvey (1578-1657) sheds new light on traditional models of creativity in science. In particular, the example illustrates where both the enlightenment and the romantic view on creativity go astray. In the first section, we sketch the two views and present a (non-exhaustive) list of problems for both. In the rema...

Clifton

from a village, which strove to combine rustic simplicity with the quality of a fashionable watering-place, into the extensive and populous West-end of the neighbouring city. The Clifton of to-day occupies nearly a square mile of surface, bounded on the east and north-east by Bristol and its northern suburbs; on the south by the floating harbour of Bristol; on the south-west by the Avon in its ...

Keynes ’ s Appendix to Chapter 19 : A Reader ’ s Guide

S-K Smartphone Barcode Reader for the Blind.

We describe a new smartphone app called BLaDE (Barcode Localization and Decoding Engine), designed to enable a blind or visually impaired user find and read product barcodes. Developed at The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, the BLaDE Android app has been released as open source software, which can be used for free or modified for commercial or non-commercial use. Unlike popular commerc...