example. Moreover, the astringent empiricism of the Parisian clinical school and the "analytic" approach of Pinel could also, with some plausibility, be advanced as contenders for the title of "medicine of the Revolution". What gives Braunstein's claim greater weight is the recognition of the essentially polemical nature of Brousssais' system, which developed out of a series ofencounters with o...

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Well-chosen illustrations and excerpts from sources including Richard Lower, Thomas Willis, John Mayow, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Johannes Bernoulli, Hermann Boerhaave and Albrecht von Haller, aptly evidence the immediate impact of Stensen's theory and the variety of misinterpretations which beset it over the ensuing years. Kardel does not consider the possibility that Stensen may have contribu...

prominent topic, with further contributions in physics, astronomy, mechanics, cosmology, and psychology. The questions addressed largely consist of the puzzles of the curious layman (e.g. why is the sky sometimes red, how do flies stick to walls, etc.), presented in the style of the Greek problemata literature. The arguments offered in response are, as one would expect, essentially Aristotelian...

In December 1990 Financial Worm took a poll of the Business History Conference to determine the most important individuals and organizations in the business world in the past hundred years. The poll set out to find the greatest business leaders of the twentieth century, the most important companies, and the biggest business flops. Apart from the question about the most important invention of th...

The subject began with Huygens’s theory of wave fronts as envelopes of smoother waves, and subsequent work by Euler, d’Alembert and Riemann. Singularities at the wave fronts were not understood before Hadamard’s theory of “partie finie” at the beginning of this century. Contributions by Herglotz and Petrovsky and the theory of distributions created in the forties by Laurent Schwartz greatly ill...

Shakespeare editing in the twentieth century involves a history of practice, and a history of ideas about the text. The present article will deal with each in turn, recognizing the problematic relation between them. Both were grounded in the work of the New Bibliography, a movement that would determine the direction of Shakespeare textual studies and editing for most of the century. As will bec...

This paper reviews the past fifty years of work on spectral theory and related issues in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.