Per sanguinem nostrum by William S. Peters

Per sanguinem nostrum by William S. Peters

Many of the changes that have occurred during the course of evolution are mysterious. It is an undirected process: the raw fodder for evolutionary change is what is present in the organisms alive and breeding now. Sometimes, it can be difficult to picture how it might happen. For example, four million years ago, the human chromosome 2 was formed from the fusion of two chromosomes that are still...

WILLIAM CONGREVE ’ S RATIONAL ROCKETS by

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

William Congreve ’ S Rational Rockets

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

The Science of Religion by William S . Hatcher

Religion and science are often perceived as being, to some degree, in opposition to each other. The reasons for such a view are considered, and are seen to derive from a certain particular conception of science and of religion: On the one hand, scientific method is viewed as too rigorous and restrictive to apply to religion, while on the other hand, religious experience is viewed as peculiarly ...

Encyclopedic Representations : William Gaddis ’ s The Recognitions