Essay and/or autobiography. Zofia Nałkowska’s Widzenie bliskie i dalekie (The vision nearby and distant)

The Autobiography of Edward Jarvis: Part I

/1/ Edward Jarvis, son of Francis and Melicent [sic] Jarvis recorded in the life of Charles Jarvis, was born in Concord, Mass., Jan. 9th, 1803.' From early childhood he attended the town schools, almost without interruptions, until he was sixteen years old. He was fond of mechanics. In his boyhood, he made windmills, water mills, trip-hammers, and put them on the corner of the buildings, or in ...

Zofia Zukowska

Obscuration and circumnuclear medium in nearby and distant AGN

Some recent results on the physical and statistical properties of nearby and distant AGN are presented. I first discuss the properties of “elusive” AGNs, i.e. obscured AGNs which do not show a Seyfert-like spectrum in the optical. Then I present preliminary results from a detailed study of the contribution of obscured AGNs and of their host galaxies to the infrared cosmic background. Finally I ...

Robot Motion Vision Pait I: Theory

A direct method called fixation is introduced for solving the general motion vision problem, arbitrary motion relative to an arbitrary environment. This method results in a linear constraint equation which explicitly expresses the rotational velocity in terms of the translational velocity. The combination of this constraint equation with the Brightness-Change Constraint Equation solves the gene...

Autocitation and Autobiography

The life-experience shared by Dante and Forese thus assumes a metaphoric value in the Comedy that bears little relation to anything we know about the two men. Forese stands in Dante's personal lexicon for his own compromised historical identity, the fosti meco, equal io teco fui"-brought painfully into the present-"il memorar presente." Their life together represents everything the saved soul r...