The history of medicine has conventionally been studied by research into prose medical texts, which provide an index of the depth of the professional knowledge available to the contemporary physician, but examination of poetry gives a measure of the diffusion of this knowledge into the laity. William Harvey's monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood in 1628 is now acknowledged as a ...

Dr. Elisha Perkins' "metallic points to relieve pain"* began their career in Connecticut in 1795. During the following decade they were the subject of intense controversy both here and abroad. In the literature that sprang up about Perkinism there were two long, satirical poems: one lauded the "points," the other derided them. The laudatory poem was published in London in 1803 by Thomas Green F...

abstractbeing present for centuries, myths are our ancestors’ heritage that continues to reverberate in man’s unconscious mind. they contain symbols, frequently reflected in a variety of forms in literary and art works of different eras.using these symbols for depicting a panoramic world will connect myths –which are often about supernatural incidences- to mysticism –which illustrates the unsee...

This paper questions Hegel’s critique to the central place that Romantic authors Friedrich Schlegel andNovalis gave dimension of affection in their philosophical thinking, as well way theylink philosophy and poetry. The summit this affective poetical tendency Romantics is theso-called Sehnsucht – infinite longing or aspiration which Hegel criticizes a very truculentmanner. interest debate not l...

Abstract A close reading of two poetical sources provides new data on the reforms fiscal schedule Abbasid state in ninth century. This paper reconstructs calendrical complications those regions that followed Iranian administrative tradition and its solar calendar without intercalations. Two were issued under al-Mutawakkil al-Muʿtaḍid to correct these regions. panegyric by al-Buḥturī allows us c...

Our society’s utilitarian premises imply that only which can be possessed, mastered and quantified said to lead pleasure contentment. This article contends an alternative this stance, according a number of philosophers ennui despair, found in Albert Samain’s poetical prose works. writings suggest things acquire more depth aura once they are lost poeticised through nostalgia longing, thus absenc...

nasir khosraw ghobadiani balkhi, the iranian poet and philosopher in 5th century (hegira) has poetry and prose works and he has employed to teach religious. his poetry is enjoying of divine inspiration and is overfilled of theology and preaching and asceticism. his prose works has written about philosophy issues and religious points and interpretations of religious commandments and worships. he...