Rene Klisky: de geschiedenis dubbelop gespeeld

Geschiedenis van de rekenkunst - van kerfstok tot computer

`De bevordering en volmaking der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte': de rol van het Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam in de geschiedenis van de natuurwetenschappen, geneeskunde en techniek (1769–1988)

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...

Joris Hulstijn Rene Steetskamp Hugo Ter Doest

An importantpart of dialoguemanagementin a dialoguesystemis topicmanagementThe systemhas to keep track of topic aspects (current topic, context, obligations,. . . ) in order to be able to resolve ambiguities and to respond in a cooperative and sensible way. In the project, we are developing a system that takes part in a conversation about theater performances and is able to make ticket reservat...

An Autograph Letter of Dr. Rene Laennec

THE Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Northern Ireland has kindly allowed us to reproduce th,is attendance or class certificate issued by Doctor Laennec in 1826 to John Creery Ferguson (Figure 1). John Ferguson was a native of Tandragee, County Armagh. Born in 1802, he received the degree of M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and became eventually the second professor of medicine ...

Reader Response ~ - - Rene Girard and the Dynamics of Imitation , Scapegoating

Richard Boyd's "Reading Student Resistance" and his earlier JAC article "Imitate Me; Don't Imitate Me" have convinced me that Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire may have much to teach us about the dynamics of composition. Both articles offer an impressive analysis of imitation as a moment of coercion and "double bind" for students and teacher. In my view, Boyd's most significant insight con...