AND INTRODUCTION IN THIS PAPER I shall be describing the ideas ofanatomists on the function and structure of the spleen from the beginning of the sixteenth century until the time of Veslingius in the middle of the seventeenth. The debates on the spleen had no happy outcome in the form of a successful or correct theory as was the case with the sixteenthand early seventeenth-century arguments on ...

Current work in author identification is primarily directed towards music classification. Identification of artists by analyzing features of their work has recently gained interest. As a multiclass classification problem, potentially applicable machine learning approaches to the problem are numerous. We propose to extend present work in this area, which uses Naïve Bayes classifiers and multi-cl...

Joseph J. Kaufmanwas born inNewHaven,Connecticut, on February 10, 1921 toKarl andTiny Kaufman. The family moved shortly thereafter to open a millinery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a child of first-generation Jewish Romanians, his life in Blue Collar, Worcester, was challenging. Kaufman and his friends took turns “on patrol” whenwalking home from school to protect themselves from anti-Se...

This project examines three contemporary re-creations of Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth Venus, exploring how modern depictions the same image and story return to change vision. I juxtapose fifteenth-century painting with re-creations: Larry Moss’ Venus in Arigami (2009), Lady Gaga’s Applause music video (2013), David LaChapelle’s Rebirth photograph (2019). has timeless status as an icon beauty d...

During the Renaissance, a period of 'rebirth' for humanities and science, new knowledge and speculation began to emerge about the function of the human body, replacing ancient religious and philosophical dogma. The brain must have been a fascinating mystery to a Renaissance artist, but some speculation existed at that time on the function of its parts. Here we show how revived interest in anato...

There is no doubt that vitamin D plays a crucial role in the maintenance of musculoskeletal system. But the function of this ancient molecule presumably ranges far beyond hormone-like regulation, as it could be generated by simple unicellular organisms. First, we are going to discuss the role of vitamin D as a global regulator of homeostasis from a historical perspective, but later we will focu...