After recounting several dreams and related alchemical interests of Jung's tied to the 17(th) century, a contextualizing look at select scientific and philosophical developments of that century is presented. Several precursors of the contemporary debates on the mind/body relation are noted, with special reference to the work of Antonio Damasio. This in turn leads to a reconsideration of the wor...

E lasticity is the property that enables a fluid or solid body to resist change in size and shape when an external force is applied and to return to its original size and shape when the force is removed. This concept is a major building block in seismology because it is the elastic properties of rocks which allow seismic waves to propagate through the earth. The theory of elasticity is one of t...

According to a consensus that has not been seriously challenged in nearly a century, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton independently coinvented calculus. Neither would have countenanced history’s verdict. Maintaining that he alone invented calculus, Leibniz argued that his priority should be recognized for the good of mathematics. As he reasoned [12, p. 22], “It is most useful that the...

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as underand overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields efficiency, we find that liab...

We discuss nonperturbative QCD evolution of nonsinglet nucleon structure functions, with particular application to the Gottfried sum. We show that the coupling of the quark partons to bound state mesons leads to nonperturbative contributions to the Altarelli– Parisi equations which, due to the axial anomaly, result in a strong scale dependence of nonsinglet structure functions for values of Q a...

Although the historical reputation of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) largely rests on his philosophical and mathematical work, it is widely known that he made important contributions to many of the emerging but still inchoate branches of natural science of his day. Among the many scientific papers Leibniz published during his lifetime are ones on the nascent science we now know as hydrol...

Nonstandard analysis is the branch of mathematics concerned with constructing a number system that includes infinitesimals. These are numbers smaller than any real number yet still greater than zero. Although nonstandard analysis was developed in 1966 by Abraham Robinson, it is based off of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s construction of the calculus, created some 300 years earlier. Nonstandard ana...

This paper is an exploration of the methodologies, economics and politics of organizing information on the web, through a historical-comparative analysis of Google. The paper centres on two cases that reveal interesting tensions in contemporary attempts at organizing knowledge and information. The first case deals with natural and artificial languages as tools for knowledge, working with the hi...

The effect from quark masses and transversal motion on the Gottfried, Bjorken, and Ellis-Jaffe sum rules is examined by using a quark-parton model of nucleon structure functions based on an improved scaling variable. Its use results in corrections to the Gottfried, Bjorken, and Ellis-Jaffe sum rules. We use the Brodsky-Huang-Lepage prescription of light-cone wavefunctions to estimate the size o...