Evidence for the transformist ideas espoused by Henry H. Cheek (1807-33), a contemporary of Charles Darwin's at the University of Edinburgh, sheds new light on the intellectual environment of Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Cheek was the author of several papers dealing with the transmutation of species influenced by the theories of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), Jean-...

Every discourse has a context. Every discourse has a motive. The Sociology that developed in 19th century France was a response to the social crisis that was experienced there at that time. The Sociology that developed in 19th century France had a context. The man who is considered to be the founding father of Sociology, Auguste Comte was convinced that a science of society was possible and wou...

In the eighteenth century, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, proposed a novel method to estimate p—dropping a needle over and over again onto a wooden floor of parallel planks. The probability of a needle crossing a join in the floor is related to p. By counting the number of crosses, one can estimate this probability, and hence compute a value for p (see [1]). Buffon is said to have trie...

This paper studies the variation of the volume of a subanalytic family of sets. More precisely we are interested in the variation of the density. We prove that the density is continuous along a stratum of a Whitney subanalytic stratification and locally lipschitzian when the stratification satisfies the Kuo-Verdier condition. This problem had been studied by Comte in [C].

The optimized geometry and energy for [K(H2O)n=1-8] clusters have been studied using different basis sets and different methods (HF, MP2(FULL), BLYP and B3LYP). Moreover, two analytical potentials have been developed for potassium in water based on MP2(FULL) and B3LYP computations using the 6311g* for potassium and the aug-cc-pVTZ(H2O) basis set for water. Two molecular dynamics simulations hav...