The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece. The mysterious Pythagorean cosmology pursued as secret esoteric knowledge was related to the search of rhythm, proportionality and harmony. Even somewhat earlier, Greek mysteries were based on ...

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret AUTUMN, 1941. For the purpose of this address the term medicine is used in t e sense given to it by the distinguished American doctor, Le Koy Crummer, when he said that medicine meant to him not the discoveries of the great men, but the land of medical attention available to the common man down the centuries.1 , and that I may appear to be stra...

The archaeological material to be contained within the Sacred Way discs is to be structured into three main areas. The basic user experience will be that of a simulated walk through a photoreallstic reconstruction of the sanctuary site of Eleusis In the 5th century BC. At any point along the path, the user will be able to access detailed information in a variety of forms on different aspects of...

Disease as a pivotal factor in determining the course of human events may be one og the least considered historical variables. When assessing the critical junctures of history, historians seem more inclined to focus on the impact of conquering armies, economic revolutions, and technologic breakthroughs. This analysis attempts to illustrate the seminal effects of the great plague of Athens. By d...

dilemma with potentially fatal consequences if the wrong choice were made. Both volumes together show how much has been achieved in the study of medieval medicine during the last thirty years, to which both scholars contributed greatly. It is no longer enough to edit or present a text, as if its meaning required little further elucidation or as if its significance as an index of medical progres...