Libanii Opera. Richardus Foerster

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It seems incredible that twelve volumes of medical works written in Morgagni's own handwriting should have been completely lost to sight until 1952, when Professor Adalberto Pazni, combing through the catalogues in the Laurenziana Library in Florence for the names of medieval doctors, should have discovered them by chance. How they came to be there is a story full of interest, a detective story...

Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment

Heinz von Foerster was the founder and director of the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. BCL existed from 1957 to 1976. In 1976 Heinz retired and moved to California. One revealing story about Heinz and the Biological Computer Laboratory concerns the Mansfield Amendment, which led to the closing of BCL. I was a graduate student at the Univer...

Otfrid Foerster, Physician and Naturalist (1873–1941)

The author shows that the objects of the College, the promotion of public health, reduction of the danger of self-administration of medicines, and the provision of a helpful service to members have been fulfilled. Members, termed 'Fellows', must have practical experience as registered pharmacists and agree to comply with both laws and ethics relating to pharmacy and with the rules of the Colleg...

Rencontre improbable entre von Foerster et Snowden

En 1976 à Cuernavaca, Heinz von Foerster, fondateur de la seconde cybernétique et précurseur dans le domaine des systèmes complexes, intervient dans un séminaire d'Ivan Illich, penseur de l'écologie politique. Suite à l'analyse par ce dernier de sa notion de contre-productivité – auto-dérégulation et auto-désorganisation d'un système qui devient étranger aux éléments qui le constituent i – von ...