This article uses the alba collected by three travellers from Habsburg Netherlands to Constantinople in 1570s and 1580s explore purposes of collecting what they reveal about being part an integrated imperial mission that represented territory abroad. The first album was gathered ambassador’s physician Arnold Manlius between May 1571 November 1574. Manlius’s humanist project is filled with over ...

Time-Delay Interferometry (TDI) is the data processing technique that cancels large laser phase fluctuations affecting one-way Doppler measurements made by unequal-arm space-based gravitational wave interferometers. By taking finite linear combinations of properly time-shifted measurements, are removed at any time t and signals can be studied a requisite level sensitivity. In past, other approa...

Being the last survivor a of the original triumvirate that launched the hairpin countercurrent theory of urine concentration, I thought it might be seemly for me to reminisce about how it came about 50 years ago. In 1946, I graduated in chemistry at the University in Budapest (Hungary) and became the lucky recipient of a fellowship offered by the University of Basel (Switzerland). A few months ...

Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) drew on the Italian Renaissance tradition of Man Sorrows to advance Christological message within altarpiece context his Pietà with Saints (1585). From its location at high altar Capuchin church St. Mary Magdalene in Parma, work commemorates life Duke Alessandro Farnese (1586–1592), who is interred right front Annibale’s painted image. The narrative development tra...