Historical Sources for Thomas Pynchon’s “Peter Pinguid Society”

Science and society in modern Japan. Selected historical sources

The Bristol Medico-Historical Society

A notice appeared in the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal of February 1986 proposing "the formation of a new society with an interest in the History of Medicine". The proposers "wished to see a small group, all of whom would be willing to give a paper from time to time", so that members would be stimulated to research their special interests; and instead of relying on invited speakers with ex...

Medicine in society: historical essays

ALFRED GRAFE, A history ofexperimental virology, transl. Elvira Rechendorf, Berlin, New York and London, Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. xi, 343, DM 98.00 (3-540-51925-4). This is a virologist's book more than a historian's. Perhaps a better description would be "an introductory historical text for students of virology". As such it is very thorough, very factual, and highly technical, and would be a...

Historical sources and watershed evolution.

Historical data, including structures, documents, photographs and eyewitness reports, allow changes in some drainage basins to be documented in fine detail over time periods ranging from a few days to several decades. The USA is rich in data sources that are freely available. Rates of bank erosion, meander migration, channel width, riparian vegetation and watershed land use and cover conditions...

TOMASZ PLACEK and THOMAS MÜLLER COUNTERFACTUALS AND HISTORICAL POSSIBILITY

We show that truth conditions for counterfactuals need not always be given in terms of a vague notion of similarity. To this end, we single out the important class of historical counterfactuals and give formally rigorous truth conditions for these counterfactuals, employing a partial ordering relation called “comparative closeness” that is defined in the framework of branching space-times. Amon...