Vilfredo Pareto. History, his history

Laennec: his medical history.

Critical study of the career of Théophile Laënnec, with particular reference to his medical history, gives cause to query the commonly accepted belief that his whole life was a constant battle against pulmonary tuberculosis. He developed respiratory symptoms almost immediately on his arrival in Paris but they were those of bronchial asthma and responded promptly and completely to a change of en...

The family doctor, his life and history

and science fulfil similar functions". As he says, "The human brain needs to have a representation of the world that is unified and coherent." In his discussion of evolution Jacob is an out-and-out Darwinian, but gives a good analysis of the problems raised by molecular biology. He contrasts the selectionist Darwinian model with the instructionist theories of creationists. As an immunologist, h...

Vilfredo Pareto, the famed Italian engineer turned economist-sociologist, had during his early careers a desire to frame gener

From natural history to the history of nature. Readings from Buffon and his critics

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...

Josef Korous and His Place in History of Mathematics

Famous mathematician and university teacher prof. RNDr. Josef Korous, DrSc. (7. 2. 1906 – 23. 8. 1981) is well-known in mathematical community mainly by his scientific work in the theory of orthogonal polynomials. He contributed to Czech and Slovak mathematics a lot of also as professor in higher education at universities and colleges, as supervisor of research work of his followers – mathemati...