CHARLES WEBSTER, From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the making of modern science, (The Eddington Memorial Lectures delivered at Cambridge University, November 1980), Cambridge University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 107, illus., £12.50. Charles Webster has managed to put an astonishing amount of information into these four lectures, and without any loss of clarity or readability. There can be f...

CHARLES WEBSTER, From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the making of modern science, (The Eddington Memorial Lectures delivered at Cambridge University, November 1980), Cambridge University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 107, illus., £12.50. Charles Webster has managed to put an astonishing amount of information into these four lectures, and without any loss of clarity or readability. There can be f...

The proposal by Dr. Harold Varmus, 1 Director of the US National Institutes of Health, to create an entirely electronic repository of all biomedical p u b l i c a t i o n s — E b i o m e d — is the most recent and compelling sign that traditional scholarly medical journals (and we count ourselves among this group) are entering the electronic world. We are rather like a shuttle heading toward a ...

Employing a narrative comprehension task procedure, this study tests the hypothesis that engagement in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava religious practices, which are aimed at cultivating a personal relationship with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, predict increased implicit attribution of anthropomorphic properties to him. Contrary to our hypothesis, multiple regression analyses of data from 184 native Krishna devotee...

Denis Smalley’s concept of Spectromorphology (1997) provides the listener of electroacoustic music with thorough and accessible sets of vocabulary to describe sound events, structures and spaces. Traditional means of describing Western art music are usually inadequate in this regard, since we are dealing with music that is not note-based and often lacking a representation equivalent. The use of...