Mr. President and Gentlemen,?Malta, the principal island of a small group called the Maltese Islands, which comprises Malta, Gozo, and Comino, is situated some 50 miles south of Sicily, which can easily be seen on a clear day, and some 200 miles east of the African mainland. The main geographical fact to be noted is that Malta, subject as it is to visitations of cholera, lies in a direct path o...

There are two puzzles surrounding the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. First, why mythological stories them, typically involving seven young girls being chased by a man associated with constellation Orion, so similar in vastly separated cultures, such as Australian Aboriginal cultures and Greek mythology? Second, do most call them “Seven Sisters” even though people good eyesight see only six stars? ...

“Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t’other, which is the Cube, which the Sphere. Suppose then the Cube and Sphere placed on a Table, and the Blind Man to be made to see. Quære, whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now...

x Once I sat on the steps by a gate of David's Tower, I placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. " You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. Just right of his head. " " But he's moving, he's moving! " I said to myself: redemption will come only if their gui...

It has been known for some time that not only animals, but also some advanced unicellular algae possess imaging eyes. Now it seems that even tiny cyanobacteria have what it takes to qualify for the most basic definition of vision.