Introduction. 1564-2014. Homage to Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei and the property of naming light spots.

Homage to Atlantic City.

In this article, I reflect on the unique value for the societies of academic internal medicine of their annual spring meetings that were held in Atlantic City for two generations prior to 1977 and consider whether lessons remain from those past experiences.

Galileo's eye: a new vision of the senses in the work of Galileo Galilei.

Reflections on the senses, and particularly on vision, permeate the writings of Galileo Galilei, one of the main protagonists of the scientific revolution. This aspect of his work has received scant attention by historians, in spite of its importance for his achievements in astronomy, and also for the significance in the innovative scientific methodology he fostered. Galileo's vision pursued a ...

Homage to Eva Hild

Inspired by the work of Eva Hild, I have developed some auxiliary CAD programs and design processes that make it easier to model her undulating free-form sculptures on a computer, so that similar looking maquettes can be fabricated on a 3D printer. A special focus has been placed on trying to make single-sided 2-manifolds in a similar style.

A homage to Giardia

What are we doing here, where do we come from, and where are we going? Darwin answered many of these questions by proposing that living organisms owe their characters to the successful reproduction of their ancestors. But Darwin’s ideas had relatively little impact on our understanding of how organisms reproduce. Like Lamark, Darwin conceived that hereditary traits were collected from different...