XIV.—Edmund of Langley and his Tomb

Burglarizing Nietzsche’s Tomb

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

“Receptive Substances”: John Newport Langley (1852–1925) and his Path to a Receptor Theory of Drug Action

Design for a Tomb

A design for a tomb does not ordinarily interest anyone but the designer and his client. There is, however, in the Museum Print Department a sixteenth-century tomb drawing of more than ordinary interest, since it presents a puzzle as rich in clues as a detective story. Once folded in half and bound in a scrapbook with the shop drawings of an unidentified atelier, this drawing shows an elaborate...

Samuel Pierpont Langley . 1834 - 1906

or merely theoretical interest, but that it is justified by the fact that the whole subject of terrestrial radiation, the temperature of the surface of our planet, and the conditions of organic life upon it are intimately related to that of our present research. The entire radiation of the soil of our earth towards space goes on in a spectral region of which we have hitherto known nothing. Thes...

Avicenna and his literary

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...