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Visages singuliers du Plutarque humaniste: autour d’Amyot et de la réception des ‘Moralia’ et des ‘Vies’ à la Renaissance, by Olivier Guerrier; Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800, by Reb
I recommend Guerrier's perceptive (if all too short) exploration of Amyot's use of doublets in his versions of Plutarch to anyone with an interest in sixteenth-century translation, for
Kevin DeYoung, The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon: Calvinism, Evangelicalism, and the Scottish Enlightenment | Scottish Church History
Anyone with an interest in Scottish Calvinism, transatlantic evangelicalism, or Scottish philosophy would do well to add it to their reading list, or – if possible – their library.
The Household Inventories of Helmingham Hall (Suffolk), 1597–1741, ed. by Moira Colman | Costume
This is a useful addition for anyone studying Elizabethan and early Stuart clothing.
Ilja NIEUWLAND. American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodocus | Archives of Natural History
If anyone is doubtful of the value of casts (not fakes) to research, public understanding, experimental biomechanics, conservation and to museology generally, they should read this book.
Speed limit and Landauer's bound
Landauer's bound represents the minimum thermodynamic cost of erasing a single bit of information. However, as this bound is only achievable in quasistatic processes, finite-time operations inevitably incur additional energetic costs. In this talk,
Using Light to Control Bacteria
By applying light patterns to bacteria which are genetically modified to have a light-dependent swimming speed [1], we can create spatial bacterial patterns, since the bacteria swim out of the light regions and aggregate in the dark regions [2]. We
Random walks and kernel methods
I will present a method of tackling a class of 2-D random walks. Using an example of a 2-D walker with 3 possible movements, I will outline a derivation of the full generating function for paths of various lengths and initial conditions, starting
Review: Dunn. 2022. Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | Corpora
Thus, by providing concise practical guidance, this Element will serve anyone who is interested in natural language processing, corpus linguistics, text analysis and linguistics in the era of big data.
BLOG SERIES – Asthma outcomes: Research perspective | Professor Hilary Pinnock | Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research | Usher Institute
Professor Hilary Pinnock is Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Lead on the Optimising Management of Asthma Attacks theme within the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research. She takes us through the
Scottish in the Margins of New France: Marie Hiroüin de la Conception, a Nun at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Seventeenth-Century Québec | Britain and the World
Marie Hiroüin, a nun at the Hôtel-Dieu in Québec, was identified as a Scottish noblewoman in the margin of one of her community’s records. An examination of how she came to be in New France, then a...