18 research outputs found
Monism and Morphology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Ernst Haeckel’s monistic worldview and his interpretation
of Darwin’s theory of evolution worked together to help him rule out
any role for divine providence or any non-material mind, spirit, will, or
purpose in the organic world. In his account of 1866, the impersonal,
unpredictable, and purposeless external environment was what drove
evolutionary change.
By around the turn of the twentieth century, however, new theories
of evolution, heredity, and embryology were challenging Haeckel’s, but
Haeckel no longer responded with his earlier vigor. Younger monistically
oriented evolutionary biologists had to take the lead in modernizing and
defending the monistic interpretation and the external causes of evolution.
Three of these younger biologists are discussed here: Haeckel’s student, the
morphologist-turned-theoretician Richard Semon (1859–1918); Ludwig
Plate (1862–1937), who took over Haeckel’s chair at the University of
Jena and became an influential journal editor and commentator on new
research on heredity and evolution; and Paul Kammerer (1880–1926),
whose experimental evidence for the modifying power of the environment
was hotly debated
Demystifying the Sacred
This book investigates the relationship between blasphemy and violence in modern history, with a focus on cases from the European world, including its (post-) colonial ties. Spanning from the late-eighteenth century to today, it shows how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, have interacted with different forms of violence, committed against both the sacred and the secular
Demystifying the Sacred
This book investigates the relationship between blasphemy and violence in modern history, with a focus on cases from the European world, including its (post-) colonial ties. Spanning from the late-eighteenth century to today, it shows how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, have interacted with different forms of violence, committed against both the sacred and the secular
Changes in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism : Philosophical and scientific receptions of (physical) anthropology in the 18–19th centuries
Queues occur in our daily lives. In the development of computer-based queuing system applications, sometimes there are problems when it is suddenly interrupted by a power outage, so the queue number is missing. Investing for a queue machine is also quite expensive. The authors developed a queuing system that comes with a database of real-time monitoring application to record the number of the queue, so as to avoid disordered queue number when the power goes out. By using multiple channel queue with forwarding capability makes the application can serve more than one type of service in the company that can be adjusted to the type and amount of services. The queues application also comes with sounds call like an application queue that already exists and can be customize the amount and type of service at any time as needed without having to contact the application developer. Certainly price of hardware investment to run the application is more affordable
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space: The Interlacing of Real Places and Conceptual Spaces in Medieval Art and Architecture
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire