William S. Stokes

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...

William Stokes 1804-78: the development of a doctor.

The name of William Stokes is familiar to all who practise medicine. His achievements in clinical medicine, and particularly in cardiology, are examples of clear thought and erudite expression. These qualities were not confined to the practice of clinical medicine; Stokes gave much thought to, and wrote sensitively about, the development of the doctor and his role in society. He believed that l...

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...