What is a ‘phycolichen’? Differences and changes in the meaning of an old lichenological term

An Account of a Method of Dividing Astro

An Account of a Method of Dividing Astronomical and other Instruments, by Ocular Inspection; in Which the Usual Tools for Graduating Are Not Employed; the Whole Operation Being So Contrived, That no Error can Occur but What Is Chargeable to Vision, When Assisted by the Best Optical Means of Viewing and Measuring Minute Quantities.

✍ Troughton, E. 📂 Article 📅 1832 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 149 KB

An Account of a Method of Dividing Astro

An Account of a Method of Dividing Astronomical and other Instruments, by Ocular Inspection; in Which the Usual Tools for Graduating Are Not Employed; the Whole Operation Being So Contrived, That no Error can Occur but What Is Chargeable to Vision, When Assisted by the Best Optical Means of Viewing and Measuring Minute Quantities. [Abstract]

✍ Edward Troughton 📂 Article 📅 1800-1814 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 224 KB

On the Rectification of the Hyperbola by

On the Rectification of the Hyperbola by Means of Two Ellipses; Proving That Method to Be Circuitous, and Such as Requires Much More Calculation than Is Requisite by an Appropriate Theorem: In Which Process a New Theorem for the Rectification of That Curve Is Discovered. To Which Are Added Some Further Observations on the Rectification of the Hyperbola: Among Which the Great Advantage of Descending Series over Ascending Series,in many Cases,Is Clearly Shown; and Several Methods Are Given for Computing the Constant Quantity by Which Those Series Differ from Each other.

✍ Hellins, J. 📂 Article 📅 1832 🏛 The Royal Society ⚖ 56 KB

Daniel B. Smith. Muses, Madmen, and Prop

Daniel B. Smith. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination. New York: Penguin Press, 2007. 272 pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-1594201103. Jerome Kagan. What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $27.50 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0300124743. Emily Martin. Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 384 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 9780691004235. Joseph Cambray. Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. 168 pp. $23.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-1603441438. Barbara Ehrenreich. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009. 256 pp. $23.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0805087499

📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 38 KB

One of many recent books that raise important questions about modern psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, this examination of auditory hallucinations grew out of Daniel Smith's questions about the experiences of his father and his grandfather, both of whom heard voices. Only late in life did Smith's

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