Froude; or the Historian as Preacher

Paolo Sylos Labini as a historian of economics

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids

Froude number corrections in anthropological studies.

The Froude number has been widely used in anthropology to adjust for size differences when comparing gait parameters or other nonmorphological locomotor variables (such as optimal walking speed or speed at gait transitions) among humans, nonhuman primates, and fossil hominins. However, the dynamic similarity hypothesis, which is the theoretical basis for Froude number corrections, was originall...

The scientist as historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the origins of zoology in Brazil.

The Brazilian Paulo Vanzolini is one of the leading herpetologists worldwide. Besides his publications as a zoologist and his activities as a former museum curator and policymaker, Vanzolini pursued a long-life career as a musician and contributed to many different fields such as biostatistics, biogeography and the history of science. The paper analyzes his historical contributions to a key cha...