For this project, we worked with Andreas Stuhlmüller to develop and implement a new inference algorithm for the Church programming language. Church is a programming language that extends Scheme with random primitives. For more details, see the original Church paper [1] Andreas developed the basic algorithm and we did most of the implementation work, also working with Andreas to extend the algor...

It is said that the Pythagorean Alcmeon of Croton was one of the first philosophers that considered the brain as the seat of mind and was, probably, the founder of experimental psychology (McCulloch, 1955); this idea was then considered true by Galen, during the Roman Empire, Mondino de Liuzzi, during the Middle Age, and Andreas Vesalius and Leonardo da Vinci in the Modern era. Moreover, Golgi,...

The University of Padua is one of the most ancient in the world, being founded in 1222, and the most important anatomists of the XVI, XVII, and XVIII centuries studied and taught here. Probably, the first professor of anatomy and surgery was Bruno da Longobucco (c. 1200-c. 1286), who had previously studied at the Salerno School of Medicine. While professor in Padua, Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)...

In this paper research on the stomach and bowel physiology is presented in a historical perspective. The author tries to show how digestive processes were interpreted by the ancients and how they tried to adjust them to the dominating humoral theory of disease. It is pointed out that the breakthrough which created a new way of understanding of the function of the digestive system was made by An...

bifurcation of the carotid artery (carotid sinus) may provoke reflex bradycardia, fall of blood pressure and fainting.8 Hippocrates, Galen and Mattheus Curtius also observed that it was not the compression of the arteries in the neck, but of their bifurcation (carotid sinus) that might induce fainting or sleep. I therefore agree with the suggestion of Balourdas that ifthe old Greek physicians o...

Style is a familiar category for the analysis of art. It is less so in the history of anatomical illustration. The great Renaissance and Baroque picture books of anatomy illustrated with stylish woodcuts and engravings, such as those by Charles Estienne, Andreas Vesalius and Govard Bidloo, showed figures in dramatic action in keeping with philosophical and theological ideas about human nature. ...

1 C. D. O'Malley, 'Pre-Vesalian Anatomy', in Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1964, p. 12. For another view of Salimbene's chronicle and of its significance in the history of medicine, see E. Greco, 'Fm Salimbene da Parma-the first post mortem examination of the morbid anatomy, performed in 1286', Paninerva medica, 1962, 4: 235-237. ' G. G....