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Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary
representations of the pathologized female body in relation to
biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian
England. According to medical and scientific views of the period,
the woman who did not conform to the dictates of gender ideology
was, biologically speaking, aberrant: a deviation from the norm.
Yet, although marginalized in a social sense, the "deviant" woman
was central as a literary and cultural trope. Analyzing novels by
Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside
Foucault's notion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's
model of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the
pathologized female body displaces or resolves, on a narrative
level, larger cultural anxieties about the health of the British as
a species. While earlier feminist investigations asserted that
bourgeois ideology helped to construct scientific discourses about
female sexuality and social behavior, this study takes these
assertions as a starting point . Examining incest, racial
stereotyping, and neurasthenia, Gendered Pathologies attempts to
shed light on the ways in which biological thinking permeated
British culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Archimedes lived in the third century BC, and died in the siege of
Syracuse. Together with Euclid and Apollonius, he was one of the
three great mathematicians of the ancient world, credited with
astonishing breadth of thought and brilliance of insight. His
practical inventions included the water-screw for irrigation,
catapults and grappling devices for military defence on land and
sea, compound pulley systems for moving large masses, and a model
for explaining solar eclipses. According to Plutarch however,
Archimedes viewed his mechanical inventions merely as 'diversions
of geometry at play'. His principal focus lay in mathematics, where
his achievements in geometry, arithmetic and mechanics included
work on spheres, cylinders and floating objects. This classic 1897
text celebrates Archimedes' achievements. Part 1 places Archimedes
in his historical context and presents his mathematical methods and
discoveries, while Part 2 contains translations of his complete
known writings.
Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary
representations of the pathologized female body in relation to
biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian
England. According to medical and scientific views of the period,
the woman who did not conform to the dictates of gender ideology
was, biologically speaking, aberrant: a deviation from the norm.
Yet, although marginalized in a social sense, the "deviant" woman
was central as a literary and cultural trope. Analyzing novels by
Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside
Foucault's notion of perverse sexualities and Herbert Spencer's
model of the social organism, Archimedes argues that the
pathologized female body displaces or resolves, on a narrative
level, larger cultural anxieties about the health of the British as
a species. While earlier feminist investigations asserted that
bourgeois ideology helped to construct scientific discourses about
female sexuality and social behavior, this study takes these
assertions as a starting point . Examining incest, racial
stereotyping, and neurasthenia, Gendered Pathologies attempts to
shed light on the ways in which biological thinking permeated
British culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works
of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE)
was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig
Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also
reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest
containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded
the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this
and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication.
Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly
compared with other sources to produce his edition. This third
volume contains the editor's Latin prolegomena - his own extended
essay on the works of Archimedes - followed by the commentaries on
Archimedes by Eutocius of Ascalon (c.480-c.540) and indexes. The
texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin
translation, notes and introductory material.
This is the second volume of the first fully-fledged English
translation of the works of Archimedes - antiquity's greatest
scientist and one of the most important scientific figures in
history. It covers On Spirals and is based on a reconsideration of
the Greek text and diagrams, now made possible through new
discoveries from the Archimedes Palimpsest. On Spirals is one of
Archimedes' most dazzling geometrical tours de force, suggesting a
manner of 'squaring the circle' and, along the way, introducing the
attractive geometrical object of the spiral. The form of argument,
no less than the results themselves, is striking, and Reviel Netz
contributes extensive and insightful comments that focus on
Archimedes' scientific style, making this volume indispensable for
scholars of classics and the history of science, and of great
interest for the scientists and mathematicians of today.
Interoperability of enterprises is one of the main requirements for
economical and industrial collaborative networks. Enterprise
interoperability (EI) is based on the three domains: architectures
and platforms, ontologies and enterprise modeling. This book
presents the EI vision of the Grand Sud-Ouest pole (PGSO) of the
European International Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise
Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab). It includes the limitations,
concerns and approaches of EI, as well as a proposed framework
which aims to define and delimit the concept of an EI domain. The
authors present the basic concepts and principles of decisional
interoperability as well as concept and techniques for
interoperability measurement. The use of these previous concepts in
a healthcare ecosystem and in an extended administration is also
presented.
This book gathers the proceedings of the I-ESA'20 Conference, which
was organised by the National Engineering School of Tarbes (ENIT),
on behalf of the European Virtual Laboratory, for Enterprise
Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) and the Pole Grand Sud-Ouest (PGSO)
and was held virtually in Tarbes, France, in November 2020. It
presents contributions ranging from academic research and case
studies to industrial and administrative experiences with
interoperability. These contributions show how, in a globalised
market scenario-where the ability to cooperate with other
organisations efficiently is essential in order to remain
economically, socially and environmentally cost-effective-the most
innovative digitised and networked enterprises ensure that their
systems and applications can interoperate across heterogeneous
collaborative networks of independent organisations. The focus of
this edition of the conference is on interoperability in the era of
artificial intelligence and so particular attention is paid to
Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. The content also addresses
smart services and the business impact of enterprise
interoperability on organisations. Many of the papers in this tenth
volume of the I-ESA Conference proceedings include examples and
illustrations to help deepen readers' understanding and generate
new ideas. Offering a detailed guide to the state of the art in
systems interoperability, the book will be of great value to all
engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and
other process industries, and to software engineers and electronic
and manufacturing engineers working in academic settings.
Archimedes of Syracuse, revered as antiquity's great geometer,
produced a vast collection of works in geometry, arithmetic, and
mechanics which has proved to be a source of timeless fascination
for modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians and
logicians. Although credited with the invention of practical
devices like the water-screw, catapults and grappling devices,
compound pulley systems, and a model for explaining solar eclipses,
Archimedes viewed these mechanical innovations merely as
"diversions of geometry at play." In this complete works, including
his renowned "Method," Archimedes addresses such topics as: the
ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere, the
measurement of a circle, the properties of conoids, spheroids, and
spirals, and the quadrature of the parabola. His ingenious work on
spheres, cylinders and floating objects have gained Archimedes the
recognition, along with Euclid and Apollonius, as one of the three
great mathematicians of the ancient world. This volume reproduces
the classic translation of Thomas Heath.
Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the
greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first
authoritative translation of his works into English. It is also the
first publication of a major ancient Greek mathematician to include
a critical edition of the diagrams and the first translation into
English of Eutocius' ancient commentary on Archimedes. Furthermore,
it is the first work to offer recent evidence based on the
Archimedes Palimpsest, the major source for Archimedes, lost
between 1915 and 1998. A commentary on the translated text studies
the cognitive practice assumed in writing and reading the work, and
it is Reviel Netz's aim to recover the original function of the
text as an act of communication. Particular attention is paid to
the aesthetic dimension of Archimedes' writings. Taken as a whole,
the commentary offers a groundbreaking approach to the study of
mathematical texts.
In the garage at the back of the family home sits Primos fathers
pride and joy; a red Fiat 500 Classic. Bambino. It waits amongst
the dust motes for Primos father to recover, to come out of his
paranoia and delusions. It waits and teases, like nothing else can
least of all the demands of everyday life, for things to return to
normal. And that isnt going to happen any time soon . . .
Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works
of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE)
was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig
Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also
reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest
containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded
the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this
and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication.
Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly
compared with other sources to produce his edition. This first
volume contains On the Sphere and the Cylinder (in two books), On
the Measurement of a Circle and On Conoids and Spheroids. The texts
are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation,
notes and introductory material.
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Archimedis Opera Omnia
Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Johan Ludvig Archimedes, Johan Ludvig Eutocius
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The Works of Archimedes
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