Results 211 to 220 of about 52,916 (263)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.

The Mystery of Mysteries

2016
Abstract This chapter first presents Darwin’s descriptions about meeting John Herschel in 1836. It then details how Darwin consulted Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse in developing his theory on the origin of species. Herschel’s advice included writing out a sketch of the theory in a series of steps, ‘first giving the established facts ...
Roger Wagner, Andrew Briggs
openaire   +1 more source

The Mystery And ‘The Mysteries'

Life of the Spirit, 1953
As October, the month of the Rosary, is here, our thoughts may well turn to the consideration of the position of our Blessed Lady in the life of the Church as a whole and in our own. In some minds this consideration arouses misgivings. Does the trend of modern Mariology tend to give her an exaggerated prominence, they ask? This fear is almost as old as
openaire   +1 more source

Mysteries of Nature

Psychoanalysis and History, 2011
The article examines a group photograph of the Psychiatry and Neurology section of the 66th Meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Vienna, 24–30 September 1894 which Sigmund Freud attended. The society's origins in Naturphilosophie are indicated and a number of the participants are identified on the photo.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Mystery of Intervals

Reliable Computing, 2001
The author sketches the first roots of interval arithmetic, especially its various algebraic structures, and depicts his personal fascination about the mystery of intervals.
openaire   +2 more sources

A Mysterious Advertisement

Annals of the History of Computing, 1983
Editor's Note: Brian Randell submitted the following notes on July 9, 1981, in response to seeing the text of the advertisement mentioned by Garry J. Tee in the preceding article. We invite our readers to provide Randell with any further information.
openaire   +2 more sources

Mysteries about mysteries

Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2008
Giancarlo De Cataldo (2002) Romanzo criminale (Turin: Einaudi), 628 pp., [euro]16.00, ISBN 88-06-16096-6, paperback Giancarlo De Cataldo (2007) Nelle mani giuste (Turin: Einaudi), 333 pp., [euro]15...
openaire   +1 more source

Mystery? What Mystery?

2001
Abstract Douglas Futuyma, whose 1980 criticisms set off the second and fruitful wave of Rhagoletis investigations, as Chapter 6 recounts, once wrote that speciation is ‘more thoroughly awash in unfounded and often contradictory speculation than any other single topic in evolutionary theory’. We know a thing or two about that.
openaire   +1 more source

Mystery of Environmental Mystery

Environment and Behavior, 2007
The purpose of this article is to estimate the strengths of the relationships between judgments of mystery and amount of light, depth of view, and occlusion, whether visual and locomotive occlusion or just visual occlusion. Three experiments were conducted with totals of 145 respondents and 33 scenes.
openaire   +1 more source

Mystery of mysteries: Darwin and the species problem

Cladistics, 2011
Darwin offered an intriguing answer to the species problem. He doubted the existence of the species category as a real category in nature, but he did not doubt the existence of those taxa called "species". And despite his scepticism of the species category, Darwin continued using the word "species".
openaire   +2 more sources

The Appeal of the Mystery

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2011
A crucial test for a theory of aesthetic value is its been largely dismissive, and their criticisms are ability to explain the value of particular works, or serious and need to be briefly answered before an better kinds of works, especially those that have explanation of the appeal of the genre in terms been very widely appreciated over a significant ...
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy