A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon's Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil. [PDF]
Penteado DFM.
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Human Wisdom, Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy [PDF]
This book offers inter alia a systematic investigation of the actual argumentative strategy of Socratic conversation and explorations of Socratic and Platonic morality including an examination ofeudaimonia and the mental conception of health in the ...
Erik, Ostenfeld
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Person and Nature, Hypostasis and Substance: Philosophical Basis of the Theology of John Philoponus [PDF]
The theological teachings of John Philoponus are important for several reasons: a) to see the real achievements and influences of Aristotelian logic in regard to theology, b) to see the real consequences of not accepting hypostasis as relational and ...
Djakovac, Aleksandar
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THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF DANTE’S MOUNT PURGATORY [PDF]
: Where is Mount Purgatory? How high is it? How large is the island upon which it was situated? In the nineteenth century Rodolfo Benini and Ideale Capasso developed a series of hypotheses and calculations to find answers to these questions.
MAGNAGHI DELFINO, Paola, Norando, Tullia
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Mucius Scaevola and the Essence of Manly Patientia [PDF]
Patientia, the virtue of enduring physiological pain, poses a problem for Roman elite masculinities. The male body is supposed to be unpenetrated, but when pain is inflicted the body is often cut and pierced.
Wildberger, Jula
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Venus: Geochemical conclusions from the Magellan data [PDF]
Though the Magellan mission was not designed to collect geochemical or petrological information, it has done so nonetheless. Since the time of the Pioneer Venus mission it has been known that high-altitude (greater than 2.5-5 km) mountainous areas on ...
Wood, J. A.
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Posidonius’ Two Systems: Animals and Emotions in Middle Stoicism [PDF]
Benjamin Harriman
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Selected aspects of lunar mare geology from Apollo orbital photography [PDF]
Crater size-frequency distributions were studied (100-500 m) and are shown to provide significant integrated information concerning mare surface ages, subsurface stratigraphy, and surficial geology.
Brennan, W. J., Young, R. A.
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Floor-fractured crater models for igneous crater modification on Venus [PDF]
Although crater modification on the Earth, Moon, and Mars results from surface erosion and crater infilling, a significant number of craters on the Moon also exhibit distinctive patterns of crater-centered fracturing and volcanism that can be modeled as ...
Schultz, P. H., Wichman, R. W.
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Posidonius and Cicero's Tusculan Disputations i. 17-81 [PDF]
Roger Miller Jones
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