Chapters from Illinois History

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

l•In Chapter I* it was shown that the compass had been brought into use in northwestern Europe for the purposes of navigation by the year 1187, that its first mention in the literature of that year does not refer to it as being of recent introduction, that the discovery of the directive property of a magnet in the Earth's f•eld must have preceded this application by some considerable time, but ...

Chapters in the History of Terrestrial Magnetism

1--The science of Terrestrial Magnetism is based on the fact that a magnet, free to move about its center of gravity, tends to assume a position of relative rest in an approximately definite direction with respect to the geographical meridian and the vertical at the place of observation. That it should do so must be due to the existence of a field of force which is known as the terrestrial magn...

Four chapters in the history of Australian cardiology.

In an endeavour to present the outline of the development of cardiology in Australia as a continuing process, gradually gaining its own individual characteristics, attention was arrested by certain outstanding individuals and important milestones. Rather than attempt to cover the entire subject, an undertaking too ambitious for the present study, four chapters are offered to illustrate the prog...

Chapters in the social history of medicine in Brazil

Trollope’s Chapters

The unit of the chapter – so fundamental to nineteenth-century prose narrative, yet so thoroughly ignored in accounts of the form of novels – is fundamental to Anthony Trollope’s work. The chapter stems from the textual practices of antiquity and of medieval biblical transmission, ultimately finding a home in the novel form. Chapters are key to Trollope’s understanding of readerly experience, i...