Graphic satire and the Enlightenment eye

Aberdeen and the Enlightenment

important contributions made to British rheumatology by the Medical Research Council. As with so many well-meant volumes of this sort, the book becomes more than a trifle self-congratulatory. I have no doubt that in this country the Heberden Society was a much-needed stimulus to the development ofa group of professional rheumatologists, for whom the Society provided self-respect at a time when ...

Subversive Satire: the Glasgow Verses

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

The enlightenment returns.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 20 MARCH 2009 1531 COVER Movement trajectories, each recorded during a 1-hour time period, for rats with brain lesions that reduce dopamine signaling. These animals serve as a model of Parkinson's disease and display severe difficulty in initiating movements, as illustrated by the white trajectories (on black background) showing limited locomotion. Black traje...

The Concept of Enlightenment

lishing their sovereignty. yet the fully enlightened earth radiate~ b~ disaster triumphant. The program of the Enlightenment was 4-IJ the disenchantment of the world; the dissolution of myths and f#lJ)·r the substitution of knowledge for fancy. Bacon, the "father of experimental philosophy,"l had defined its motives. He looked down on the masters of tradition, the "great reputed authors" who fi...

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