Jacob Post Giraud, Jr., and His Works

Jacob Lemann, Jr., MD--the Milwaukee years.

Jacob David Tamarkin—his Life and Work

Few members of our Society enjoyed such a firmly established and well deserved popularity as Jacob David Tamarkin during the twenty years that he stood in our midst. J. D., as his friends called him, was a personality and a colorful one; those who knew him well held him in fond affection and everybody respected his integrity and selfless service. The interest which he took in his fellowmen was ...

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, ...

Oliver Goldsmith. His life and works

Jacob Berzelius, the emergence of his chemical system

sexuality, the law, religion, and economic change, that was little known or little regarded before. Lloyd Bonfield, for example, shows that strict settlement came to predoniinate amongst larger landowners considerably earlier than previously thought immediately after the Restoration. Roger Lee Brown reveals the surprising popularity of Fleet weddings in Hanoverian London in excess of 6,000 a ye...