Kemp neatly calls, the "fantasia", expressed by the painting of the Last Supper in which the perspectival illusion is interestingly explained. In the scientific field, similarly inspired ingenuity is found in Leonardo's geometrical transformations. The physiological truth so beautifully symbolized in the Leda and the Swan and the portrait of a Lady on a Balcony (the Mona Lisa) is here interpret...

A rapid and controllable route is developed for the synthesis of MnO nanoparticles that are encapsulated uniformly in three-dimensional (3D) mesoporous interconnected carbon networks (MnO-MICN) through an efficient microwave-polyol process, combined with a subsequent thermal treatment. The dependence of sodium citrate on the morphology of the Mn-based precursors was investigated systematically....

Fifteen hundred coronary angiograms have been performed by the staff of Harefield Hospital since 1970. Only 2 deaths have occurred in the last 1000 consecutive cases though there were 5 in the first 500 cases. This drop in the mortality is ascribed to careful attention to detail and better training of the operators. It is concluded that the Fudkin's method of coronary angiography in trained han...

Introduction: Preterm infants, with a gestational age <29 weeks are at high risk to suffer from osteopenia of prematurity (39%) and may develop spontaneous fractures in 2%-10%. In addition to an insufficient prenatal bone mineralization, the inadequate supplementation with calcium/phosphorus and vitamin D3, immobility, prolonged parenteral nutrition and adverse effects of steroids or diuretics ...

For historians of science, natural philosophical interest in magnetism has not been strongly associated with the eighteenth century, so that the agenda for this book may not seem a promising one. The seventeenth century opened with the publication of the influential work by William Gilbert, and magnetism continued to be prominent in important works of natural philosophy and cosmology: Kepler an...