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Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright's obligations to Montaigne in passages from earlier plays including Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure.

Peter Mack argues that rather than continuing the undeterminable quarrel about how early in his career Shakespeare came to Montaigne, we should focus on the similar...

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) ist vor allem als Erfinder der Fotografie bekannt. Basierend auf neuen Quellen wird die Leistung Talbots hier erstmals im Hinblick auf sein Gesamtoeuvre untersucht. Dies ermoglicht neue Interpretationen seiner Fotografien, die die Autorin primar als Hilfsmittel fur seine vielfaltigen wissenschaftlichen Interessen und somit als Teil eines epistemischen Gedankengebildes versteht.
Da Talbot selbst mageblich an der Entzifferung von Keilschriften beteiligt war, propagierte er zunachst den Einsatz des Mediums im Museum und in der Archaologie. Als er...

Der umfangreiche Briefwechsel mit dem franzosischen Naturwissenschaftler Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ist - selten bei Humboldt - fast vollstandig erhalten; er erstreckt sich uber die gesamte gemeinsame Lebenszeit der beiden. Er setzt im Sommer 1822 ein und endet wenige Wochen vor Humboldts Tod 1859. Boussingault erforschte zehn Jahre lang Venezuela, Kolumbien und Ecuador, Gebiete, die Humboldt bereits ein Vierteljahrhundert fruher bereist hatte.

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle s logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of "De Anima" and of his work on physics, specifically light. The first two books are in themselves a pair, which investigate the philosopher s life and his lost works and development of his thought."

This book aims to show how a meta-theory of critical realism can be applied to research about pedagogy in the changing landscape of higher education in England. It introduces some of the key ideas of critical realism, and its potential to clarify complex issues that arise in research. This book draws on a critical realist study of structure/agency interactions in three contrasting higher education institutions. Seven case studies of lecturers, over the three universities, are considered to explore the interplay of global, national and institutional structures and processes in their...

According to the Global Christian Encyclopedia, there are forty-one thousand different denominations of Christianity in the world. Since there was only one true church of Christ at the time that he and his apostles originally organized the primitive church, why are there now forty-one thousand variations of his church? Where on earth did all these separately organized religious establishments of Christian worship come from, and more importantly, which one of them embodies the precepts of Christ's original church? The overall "falling away" and inevitable decay of the original primitive...