Murshid Quli Khan and His Times

Bachelier and his Times : A

Louis Bachelier defended his thesis “Theory of Speculation” in 1900. He used Brownian motion as a model for stock exchange performance. This conversation with Bernard Bru illustrates the scientific climate of his times and the conditions under which Bachelier made his discoveries. It indicates that Bachelier was indeed the right person at the right time. He was involved with the Paris stock exc...

Mark Twain in His Times

This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett Collection, focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of text...

Ambroise Pare and His Times, 1510—1590

Richard Smith Junior and His Times

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James Parkinson: his life and times

GEORGE P. MILNE (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789-1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00+£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB. Readers who assume from the title that this is a structured history of Scotland's oldest Medico-Chirurgical Society will be sadly disappo...