Rebirth, Reform and Resilience: Universities in Transition 1300-1700.

Land Reform and the Hungarian Peasantry c . 1700 - 1848

Some notes on the early history of nitric acid: 1300-1700.

Nitric acid is one of the compounds that have played an important role in alchemy, chymistry, and crafts. The first clear European recipe for its preparation is in the Latin treatise Liber de inventione veritatis, which appeared around 1300. Together with four further works, this treatise formed a corpus initially considered to be of Arabic origin, compiled by Jābir ibn Hayyān, known in Europe ...

Shipbuilding and the English International Timber Trade, 1300-1700: a framework for study using Niche Construction Theory

Much scholarship has been undertaken with regards to the evolution of the European shipbuilding traditions and their physical changes, but few explanations for the changes are given. This paper seeks to identify the correlations between the expansion of the English timber trade in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries and the changes in shipbuilding at the time, thereby creating a framework f...

Rebirth

This essay was awarded the Patient's Millennium Gowers prize of 1999 by the council of the British Branch of the International League Against Epilepsy.

Uni-www.ersity.de: Strategies for Universities in Transition

There can be no doubt that students will expect new media to be an integral part of their university education. The ”net generation” is used to interactive communication. To young people today it is normal to look for information in the web, to exchange ideas via email or meet in virtual chat-rooms. This is quite different from our generation, whose attitude towards the media has been significa...