William Faulkner As a Philosophical Writer

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

Sir Kenelm Digby, Writer, Bibliophile, and Protagonist of William Harvey

Behavior, and the Anthropometric Examination. The second part, dealing with the Norms of Infant Growth, describes behavior norms, gives a summary of maturity levels, a functional syllabus, and also anthropometric norms. The third part is devoted to an Analytic Appraisal of Growth Status and includes the principles of genetic analysis, the analytic developmental schedule, and the clinical apprai...

Unication achieved: William Cullen's theory of heat and phlogiston as an example of his philosophical chemistry

William Cullen, lecturer in chemistry at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, spent many years formulating his own theory of heat and combustion, the most developed version of which appears in a little-known set of lecture notes of 1765. Cullen’s theory is of particular interest to historians of chemistry as an example of his ideal of ‘philosophical chemistry’, an autonomous branch of natural ph...

Wallace as writer

But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...