The history of the Italians' sense of national unity began several centuries prior to the efforts to implement a concrete realization of this national unity on a political level. Through the vehicle of language, Dante had already created the foundation for a cultural sense of unity. Expressions pregnant with patriotic passion were to be found as early as Petrarch, and later with Machiavelli and Guicciardini. But, as much as the Italy of the Renaissance period was aware of its cultural preeminence over the other peoples of Europe, the striving toward national unity was essen tially alien to...

After a survey about the historical development, the paper deals with the different institutions that are working for the realization of the old demand for a co-operation of scientists and technicians of different nations today. The abundance of the international organizations can be grouped in non public and public enterprises. Some among these have only to perform tasks of organization and administration and other concrete functions in scientific research or technical research and its industrial applications. Finally the or ganizations of world-wide membership differ from those whose...

Tht development of the concept of subatomic particles is traced from the atom to the mesons and nucleons. The roles of the quantum theory and of the concept of symmetry are discussed, the significance of the research into subatomic particles for the physics is stressed. Resume L'evolution du terme particule elementaire est analysee, depuis I'atome jusqu'aux mesons et aux nucleons. Le roIe de Ia theorie des quanta ainsi que Ie terme symetrie font I'objet d'une discussion, tandis que I'auteur souligne l'importance de Ia recherche fondamentale relative aux particules elementaires pour Ia...

The study of mnie coins has not yet received the joint attention of mnic and numismatic experts which alone seems likely to solve the unanswered problems whieh they now display. (C. H. V. Sutherland, Anglo-Saxon Cold Coinage in the Light of the Crondall Hoard, S. 40) Als wir unsere Gespr?che iiber das Alter und die Bedeutung der anglo friesischen Runenmiinzen begannen, konnten wir noch nicht wissen, daB uns eines Tages der Neufund eines Runensolidus zu einer gemeinsamen Ver?ffentlichung fiihren wiirde. Dankbar haben wir dann jedoch den Zufall genutzt. Im Verlaufe unserer Studien haben wir uns...