Tschaikovsky, His Life and Works, with Extracts from His Writings, and the Diary of His Tour Abroad in 1888

Leonhard Euler: His Life, the Man, and His Works

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary (on April 15, 2007) of Euler’s birth, an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, ...

Oliver Goldsmith. His life and works

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Leonhard Euler His Life, The Man, and His Work

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

Osler and his Australian associations--Part 1: During his life.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 686-689 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au History Sir William’s grandfather, Edward Osler, was Featherstone (William Osler’s father) and brother whose children scattered to the United States, Sou Australia. Indeed, Harvey Cushing, the contempo neurosurgeon and Osler’s biographer, stated that he h of...