a University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, 3210 Tolman Hall #1650, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States b University of Miami, Department of Psychology, PO Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124, United States c Yale University, Department of Psychology, United States d Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1501 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL...

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

Doubtless early man gazed with wonder on the brightly flowing blood whose loss meant death to prey, or foe, or friend. This connection of blood with life is nowhere more clearly expressed than in the reiterated prohibitions of the Mosaic law, as: "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh" (Deuteronomy xii:23). Hippocrat...

KLAUS MAURICE and OTTO MAYR (editors), The clockwork universe. German clocks and automata 1550-1650, New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1980, 4to, pp. ix, 322, illus., $55.00 + $2.00 postage. Academics teaching the history of science could do worse than spend more time in museums with their students. That, at least, would be so if all exhibitions were of the standard of the display o...

closest to an answer to this question. Domenico Bertoloni-Meli's investigation of Malpighi's consulti written diagnoses supplied for distant patients, and hitherto omitted from consideration among Malpighi's correspondence shows very elegantly how apparently small curatorial and editorial decisions can have considerable consequences for our view of a medical practitioner. Hitherto, indeed, Malp...

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

Alexander López,1,2,* Andreas Scholz,2 Benjamin Santos,3 and John Schliemann2 1School of Physics Yachay Tech, Yachay City of Knowledge 100119-Urcuqui, Ecuador 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany 3INRS-EMT, Université du Québec, 1650 Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec, Canada J3X 1S2 (Received 13 December 2014; revised manuscript received 12 Feb...

This two-part article reviews selected problems in the theory of cellular automata, aiming to locate this theory with respect to the theory of complex systems in general. To appear in the journal "Complexity". 1 Figure 1: De schelp (conus marmoreus) This Rembrandt (1650) etching describes a shell bearing markings similar to those produced by some cellular automata.

7 *Corresponding author: 8 Ian Greenhouse 9 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 10 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-1650 11 Phone: 617 642 4828 12 Email: [email protected] 13 14 15 16 Pages: 28 17 18 Figures: 4 19 20 Abstract: 202 words 21 22 23 24 Running head: Preparatory Inhibition and Response Complexity 25 26

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...