Whitman and Lebanon's Adonis

Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)

Charles Otis Whitman [5] was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields of study to which he made significant contributions were: embryology [6]; morphology [7], or the form of living organisms and the relationships between their structures; natural history [8]; and behavior. Whitman served as director of several p...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Ford Whitman Harris and the Economic Order Quantity Model

Ford Whitman Harris first presented the familiar economic order quantity (EOQ) model in a paper published in 1913. Even though Harris's original paper was disseminated widely, it apparently was unnoticed for many years before its rediscovery in 1988. During this period much confusion developed over the origin of the EOQ model. This paper explores the early literature on this model and traces th...

Coronography with adaptive optics: the ADONIS coronograph

The combination of adaptive optics and coronographic techniques providing at the same time high angular resolution and high dynamic range is a powerful tool to study the close environment of bright objects in different fields of astrophysics (search for brown dwarfs and giant extra-solar planets around nearby stars, search for circumstellar disks, study of AGB outflows, etc). We present in this...

Walt Whitman and Louis Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Egalitarianism