Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works

The long suffering of Frederic Chopin, revisited.

Oliver Goldsmith. His life and 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, ...

The Etiology of Music: Frederic Chopin and the Consumptive Ideal

2 Introduction 4 Chapter 1: Defining the Obscure: Was Chopin consumptive? 7 Chapter 2: From Consumption to Tuberculosis: A Historical Overview 28 Chapter 3: Abstract Intersections: Gender, Consumption, and Chopin 56

Humphry Davy: his life, works, and contribution to anesthesiology.

H ISTORY offers us a tool to avoid the condemnation George Santayana (1863–1952) envisioned for those who forget the past. In studying the history of anesthesia, and in particular the singular events that brought anesthesia into the consciousness of the world in Boston in 1845 and 1846, we find much to admire, but even more that we might hope not to repeat. The first public demonstrations of an...