Recent years have shown an increasing interest in the history ofmedicine. This is no longer a distant, estranged branch ofstudy, reserved for a handful ofspecialists, but an important part of the framework encompassing the study of the past. An especially vital facet ofthis discipline is the history ofwomen's medicine, from which much can be learned concerning the ways in which our forebears vi...

OF THE DISSERTATION A treatise on the binomial theorem by PATRICK DEVLIN Dissertation Director: Jeff Kahn This dissertation discusses four problems taken from various areas of combinatorics— stability results, extremal set systems, information theory, and hypergraph matchings. Though diverse in content, the unifying theme throughout is that each proof relies on the machinery of probabilistic co...

This Highlight covers the chemical ecology of bryozoans, primarily the ecological functions of bryozoan natural products. The Highlight is arranged taxonomically, according to the bryozoan Treatise classification (P. Bock, Bryozoa Homepage, 2006, http://bryozoa.net).

Abstract The paper deals with the unpublished survey and geometric analysis of circular helical staircase built around 1660 in Palazzo Spada’s wing on Via del Polverone Rome. Its role development place history its design process are addressed thanks to historical drawings reference model proposed both treatise construction between fifteenth seventeenth centuries. A description 3D digital proced...

Michele Savonarola’s treatise Ad mulieres Ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium et noviter natorum usque ad septennium is one of the most important gynecological and pediatric treaties written in Italy 15th century. Undoubtedly, language which it were its recipients was a novelty for those times. Savonarola had to connect high mortality women children with little knowledge midwives time, since h...

Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus has been critiqued as contradictory and inconsistent. This is why I believe that the question with regard to ‘neglected masterpiece’ should be: How read Treatise a coherent philosophical work? suggest reason seems because of complex juxtaposition its two main foci: relationship between theology philosophy, politics. In this paper, will argue against clai...