As lighting systems and their applications become increasingly complex, it becomes more important than ever to discover how lighting works. The GE Lighting Institute offers a variety of demonstration lighting environments that provide you with ways to translate good lighting into profits for your business.
The borough of Vinci numbers 14 thousand inhabitants. It is situated in the heart of Tuscany, only a few kilometres from Florence and Pistoia, a stone's throw from Pisa, and within an hour's drive from Lucca and Siena. Vinci extends over an area of 54 sq. km., with a minimum altitude of 26m at Sovigliana and a maximum of 640m on Montalbano (Cupolino), where the greater part of the borough territory may be found.
In the spring of 1986, Dr. Linus Pauling presented Oregon State University Libraries with his papers and those of his late wife, Ava Helen Pauling. The collection includes all of the Paulings' personal and scientific papers, notebooks, and correspondence from 1916 to the present. There are more than 500,000 items, comprising some 4,400 linear feet. Research models and memorabilia are also present. The archive is considered to be one of the more important scientific archives of an individual in this century, one whose acquisition will benefit scholars and researchers from all over the world.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Nuclear Files project is a website devoted to the history of the Nuclear Age. By providing background information, analysis and access to primary documents, this site is an educational resource exploring the political, legal and ethical challenges stemming from the continued existence of nuclear weapons.
The diaphanous "Atlas céleste"
Benjamin Banneker was born in Maryland on November 9, 1731. His father and grandfather were former slaves.
A farmer of modest means, Banneker nevertheless lived a life of unusual achievement. In 1753, the young man borrowed a pocket watch from a well-to-do neighbor; he took it apart and made a drawing of each component, then reassembled the watch and returned it, fully functioning, to its owner.
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The official disease, leprosy, produced by Mycobacterium leprae, was not scientifically identified until 1874, and the cause for the disease was not proven until the 1960s. It is difficult to diagnose even today; therefore, there must have been much confusion surrounding the disease in the Middle Ages. Those classified with leprosy, especially during the Middle Ages, did not necessarily exhibit any of the common symptoms. The classification "leper" was given to many social deviants. Consequently, for purposes of studying lepers in the Middle Ages, we will define lepers as R.I. Moore does in Formation of a Persecuting Society, as "those who were called lepers and treated as such.".
This site describes leprosy, a disease that was common in Europe until the seventeenth-century. Included here a links to primary documents about leprosy, largely drawn from the medieval period, an annotated bibliography. Links to images are also available. The accompanying essay provides a definition of leprosy and descriptions of issues such as the treatment of lepers, inequalities of wealth, and the role in leprosy in religious practice. The site is part of a group of essays titled "Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe."
Rundetaarn (The Round Tower) was built on the initiative of King Christian IV (1588-1648) with Hans Steenwinkel the Younger as architect. On 7 July, the foundation stone for Rundetaarn was laid. The tower was the first stage of the Trinitatis complex, which was to gather three important facilities for the scholars of the seventeenth century: an astronomical observatory, a student's church and a university library.
Exhibitions at the Yale Peabody Museum
In the year 1707, on the 23rd of May, Nils Ingemarsson Linnaeus, a clergyman, and Christina Linnaea gave birth to the Big Man himself, the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus. He was schooled in Latin in Vaxjo in 1716, then, having learned Latin, he enrolled University of Lund to study medicine in 1727. Desiring a higher quality education, he went on to the University of Uppsala in the fall of 1728 where he discovered botany and natural history. This is the starting point long and illustrious career.
