William E. Connolly' s Territoriality

William Congreve ’ S Rational Rockets

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

Encyclopedic Representations : William Gaddis ’ s The Recognitions

WILLIAM CONGREVE ’ S RATIONAL ROCKETS by

This article examines the early development of military rockets devised by the English inventor and Royal Society Fellow William Congreve in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Congreve’s efforts to imitate Indian war rockets used against the British in Mysore are set within a number of local and global contexts that saw increasing attempts by Europeans to imitate eastern pyrotechnics w...

Per sanguinem nostrum by William S. Peters

Many of the changes that have occurred during the course of evolution are mysterious. It is an undirected process: the raw fodder for evolutionary change is what is present in the organisms alive and breeding now. Sometimes, it can be difficult to picture how it might happen. For example, four million years ago, the human chromosome 2 was formed from the fusion of two chromosomes that are still...

William S. Halstead pioneer of modern surgery.

W Halstead (1852-1922), was one of the greatest scientific surgeons of his time, graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), in 1877. He travelled to Europe for two years for further study in surgery, working mostly in Billroth’s clinic in Vienna, but also with Von Bergmannin Wurzburg and Halle. After returning to USA in 1880, he entered the greatest period of his professi...