John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings

Selected Writings

This paper discusses the role of interpretation in innovative design and proposes an approach to providing computer support for interpretation in design. According to situated cognition theory, most of a designer’s knowledge is normally tacit. Situated interpretation is the process of explicating something that is tacitly understood, within its larger context. The centrality of interpretation t...

Selected Writings of Gerry Stahl

This paper discusses the role of interpretation in innovative design and proposes an approach to providing computer support for interpretation in design. According to situated cognition theory, most of a designer’s knowledge is normally tacit. Situated interpretation is the process of explicating something that is tacitly understood, within its larger context. The centrality of interpretation t...

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

Surgery in America, Selected Writings

Chemical, Medical and Pharmaceutical Books printed before 1800: A catalog of holdings in the University of Wisconsin Library edited by JoHN NEU, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1965, pp. viii, 280, $6.00. We are still not provided with 'keys' to many of the distinguished collections of manuscripts and books in the history of medicine and science that are attached to smaller universities...

Francis John Worsley Roughton, 1899-1972.