QUATrROCENTO medical writings have fascinated few modem historians of medicine. Despite Lynn Thorndike's masterful challenges to it,' George Sarton's view has generally prevailed with investigators, that for science the Italian Renaissance, while perhaps a period of preparation, was certainly a period of dissolution.2 Although in recent years historians have come to realize that Vesalius' achie...

In the mid-1980s, the first volume of the New History of Portugal, edited by A. H. de Oliveira Marques and Joel Serrão, was published. This was a work that examined the period of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and consisted of the fourth volume of a long and comprehensive edition of a New History of Portugal.2 The sole person responsible for this volume was Oliveira Marques, the author ...

Based on a simple classification, analysis of aerial spread moderate and severe drought during monsoon season (June – September) 1987 has been carried out in 33 sub-divisions India by using the cumulative weekly rainfall departures from normal. Weather systems responsible for activity failure have also described. In this year, no weather system developed trough July to September resulting very ...