Claudius Crozet: Soldier-Scholar-Educator-Engineer (1789-1864).

The Library of Jonathan Knight (1789-1864) *

In 1940 Dr. Arthur Jackson of the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine brought to our attention the existence of a group of medical books in a barn in Litchfield, Connecticut. They belonged to a Litchfield resident named Mr. Joseph Cowan. Upon enquiry it was discovered that Mr. Cowan was the adopted son of Dr. J. Knight Bacon, whose mother was a daughter of Jonathan Knight, who at the age of ...

Dev091645 1789..1793

Tissue morphogenesis is driven by coordinated cellular deformations. Recent studies have shown that these changes in cell shape are powered by intracellularcontractilenetworkscomprisingactin filaments,actincrosslinkers and myosin motors. The subcellular forces generated by such actomyosinnetworksareprecisely regulatedandare transmitted to thecell cortex of adjacent cells and to the extracellula...

Models, Sherlock Holmes and the Emperor Claudius

Recently, a number of authors have suggested that we understand scientific models in the same way as fictional characters, like Sherlock Holmes. The biggest challenge for this approach concerns the ontology of fictional characters. I consider two responses to this challenge, given by Roman Frigg, Ronald Giere and Peter Godfrey-Smith, and argue that neither is successful. I then suggest an alter...

C1lc20180h 1864..1869

This paper presents a tunable optofluidic prism based on the configuration of two laminar flow streams with different refractive indices in a triangular chamber. The chambers with 70 and 90 apex angles are designed based on simulation results, which provide the optimum working range and avoid recirculating flows in the chambers. In addition, a hydrodynamic model has been developed to predict th...

The French Revolution, 1789-1799