HISTORIOGRAPHY & MYTHOLOGY OF BENGAWAN SALA

Nicoletta Sala

Mathematics is a branch of the science which has been used to model the natural and the biological forms, for many centuries. Pythagoras, Aristotle, Fibonacci, Cardano, Bernoulli, Euler, Laplace, Gauss, von Helmholtz, Riemann, Einstein, Thompson, Turing, Wiener, von Neumann, Keller, and others studied important applications of mathematics to life sciences and significant developments in mathema...

The Philosophy of Mythology

Pharmaceutical Historiography

Pharmaceutical Historiography, ed. by A. BERMAN (Proceedings of a Colloquium sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy on the occasion of the Institute's 25th Anniversary, Madison, Wisconsin, 22-23 January, 1966), Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, 1967, pp. 145, $2.00. This volume deals with (a) George Urdang's concepts on the framework of ...

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...

Greek technology or mythology?

The study by Stefanadis et al. in this issue indicates that treatment with a variety of statins reduces the release of heat from atherosclerotic plaques in the human coronary artery. This observation suggests that statins exert a beneficial effect on the inflammatory process that exists in the vascular wall in a variety of acute coronary syndromes. The finding that this effect was most pronounc...