Plutarch on Petroleum

Hipparchus, Plutarch, Schröder and Hough

1. Hipparchus and Plutarch. Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher from Chaeronea, who was born before a.d. 50 and died after a.d. 120. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, which inspired such Renaissance writers as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Dryden, and Rousseau. His many other works have been gathered together under the name Moralia, \a collection of comparatively short treatises an...

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1. Hipparchus and Plutarch. Plutarch was a Greek biographer and philosopher from Chaeronea, who was born before a.d. 50 and died after a.d. 120. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, which inspired such Renaissance writers as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Dryden, and Rousseau. His many other works have been gathered together under the name Moralia, \a collection of comparatively short treatises an...

NOTES ON Petroleum Processing

Effects of Petroleum on Birds

Oil pollution is in the forefront ofpublic attention because of the recent series of oil spills from tankers such as the Argo Merchant. Oil spillage frequently destroys the marine flora and fauna; the most striking single effect is the oiling of large numbers of marine birds. For example, as many as 30,000 birds died after the grounding of the Torrey Canyon at Seven Stones Reef, Great Britain i...

Plutarch on the Treatment of Animals: The Argument from Marginal Cases

In 1965, English novelist and essayist Brigid Brophy published an article in the London Sunday Times that would exercise a profound influence on the crusade for better treatment of animals in Britain and the United States. In this brief article, entitled simply "The Rights ofAnimals," Brophy touched upon a number of points that were to become central to the arguments in defense of animals formu...