The Aztec Templo Mayor, de Elizabeth H. Boone (ed.)

Elizabeth H . Morrison and Janet Palmer Hafler

Resident physicians spend numerous hours every week teaching medical students and fellow residents, and only rarely are they taught how to teach. They can, however, be taught to teach more effectively. Teaching skills improvement initiatives for residents are taking a more prominent place in the educational literature. Limited evidence now suggests that better resident teachers mean better acad...

Covering the Aztec Diamond

There are 107 non-isomorphic coverings of the Aztec diamond of order 5 by the 25 one-sided tetrasticks. In [6] Donald Knuth describes how to attack certain types of puzzles by computer. One type of puzzle he tried to solve is the covering of patterns by tetrasticks. Tetrasticks — or more general polysticks — were introduced by Brian Barwell [1]: Pieces made from a fixed number of line segments ...

Mathias Mayor (1775–1847)

Steno's inability to explain an affair of the soul such as pain in terms of the impact of matter reveals the dualist split between science and religion which makes itself increasingly perceptible at the time and seems to have troubled him fundamentally. Had earlier scientific men such as Harvey and Van Helmont been perhaps happier in their monist view of the world and of the 'working-matter' in...

Aztec medicine.

THE discovery of America placed the European nations in contact with three major civilizations, the Aztec in the Mexican plateau, the Maya in the Yucatan peninsula, and the Inca in the Peruvian Andes. The Mayas had been settled for centuries in the same area and developed a civilization with high cultural manifestations, whereas the Aztecs and Incas, in spite of their political power and strong...

Aztec Art