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Presidential Prosecution: Thomas Jefferson and the 1807 Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
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Magical Battlegrounds: The Creation of Disneyland and The Culture of Cold War America
Undergraduate
Textual or Investigativ
Joseph Priestley: the man who drew time
The Joseph Priestley House Museum at Northumberland, Pennsylvania became interested in Priestley's pioneering timelines as a complement to his better known work in chemistry, electricity, biblical scholarship and political radicalism. Boyd Davis wrote this short article for the newsletter published by the Friends of the museum.
The article concentrates on the connections between Priestley, his French contemporary Barbeu-Dubourg and Benjamin Franklin at the time of the struggle for American Independence, and Priestley's two key chronographic innovations: the use of drawn or printed lines to represent the duration of lives, and the associated use of dots to show when the dates of such lives are in doubt or dispute.
Keywords: timeline, chronographic
Gauss-Bonnet Brane World Gravity with a Scalar Field
The effective four-dimensional, linearised gravity of a brane world model
with one extra dimension and a single brane is analysed. The model includes
higher order curvature terms (such as the Gauss-Bonnet term) and a conformally
coupled scalar field. Large and small distance gravitational laws are derived.
In contrast to the corresponding Einstein gravity models, it is possible to
obtain solutions with localised gravity which are compatible with observations.
Solutions with non-standard large distance Newtonian potentials are also
described.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of Phi in the Sky: The Quest for
Cosmological Scalar Fields, Porto, Portugal 8-10 July 2004. 6 page
Book review. Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline
A review of 'Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline' by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. (272pp. ISBN: 9781568987637)
Craig on the Resurrection: A Defense
This article is a rebuttal to Robert G. Cavin and Carlos A. Colombettiâs article, âAssessing the Resurrection Hypothesis: Problems with Craigâs Inference to the Best Explanation,â which argues that the Standard Model of current particle physics entails that non-physical things (like a supernatural God or a supernaturally resurrected body) can have no causal contact with the physical universe. As such, they argue that William Lane Craigâs resurrection hypothesis is not only incompatible with the notion of Jesus physically appearing to the disciples, but the resurrection hypothesis is significantly limited in both its explanatory scope and explanatory power. This article seeks to demonstrate why their use of the Standard Model does not logically entail a rejection of the physical resurrection of Jesus when considering the scope and limitations of science itself
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