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Emblèmes et poésies des Pieux désirs de Herman Hugo (Anvers-Paris, 1627) : facsimile des élégies et des gravures, introduction, index et glossaire
No full textScience and Craft: The Relations between the Theoretical and Practical Sides of the Occult Sciences in the Islamic World
No full textζάω, ζωή, ζῳογονέω, ζωοποιέω, ζωοποίησις, ζωγρέω, ζωγρία
No full textwith Eberhard Bons – Mirjam Jekel – Helena Panczová – Daniela Scardi
Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume I, Building Philosophical Systems
No full textThis collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Perhaps the most striking feature of nineteenth-century works on scientific method is the extent to which they were taken up by authors interested in writing large-scale, systemic works introducing, at one stroke, a philosophy of science, a view of what "good scientific practice" would look like, and investigations of logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. This volume presents the views laid out in the four largest and most important such treatises: Sir John F. W. Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on Natural Philosophy, William Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, and John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic, as well as other contributors to the philosophy of science in this period. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science
Developing a Survey on Motivations, Attitudes, and Challenges of Non-Native Participants in English-Taught MOOCs
No full textMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free and flexible learning opportunities worldwide. However, despite their supposed accessibility, approximately 75% of MOOCs are in English, posing challenges for non-native speakers. This poster presents the development and pilot testing of a survey designed to measure non-native speakers’ motivations, attitudes, and challenges in English-taught MOOCs. The survey was piloted with 87 participants via Prolific, and was refined using Exploratory Factor Analysis and Cronbach’s alpha calculations. Preliminary results emphasize the value of these courses for professional growth and language development, and show that many participants take English MOOCs because similar courses are unavailable in their native language. Participants generally view these courses as high-quality and prestigious, report high confidence in their English skills, and face few difficulties in comprehension or communication. Additionally, they rarely rely on language support tools. Building on these results, our next step is now to share the survey more broadly in order to reach a representative sample of non-native MOOC participants
The ḫallimu watercraft: a logistic provider for the Upper Persian Gulf
No full textDuring the early to mid-1st millennium BCE, it was the ḫallimu watercraft that provided a nautical connectivity for a multi-ethnical community in the Upper Persian Gulf. Based on current knowledge from the Bēl-ibni and Eanna archive, the ḫallimu was exclusively used in the marshes and lagoon/khūr (ÍD.mar-rat) of the Sealand-Susiana region, manually propelled, and well-suited for transporting large quantities of war booty, commercial goods, and people. The ḫallimu was both inexpensive (12 shekels of silver) and quick to construct (during raids) meaning they were built from materials that were readily available in the marshes: reeds, or more likely, bulrush for their flexibility. Reed-bundled rafts, being the only type of watercraft depicted in the marsh context in Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, support the hypothesis that ḫallimu refers to a reed-bundled watercraft. The reed-bundled watercraft in Neo-Assyrian iconography demonstrates variations in shape, which could be an adaptation to different purposes that the watercraft served in real life. Alternatively, like teutans and shāsh, they were handcrafted and thus show personalization in the design. The ethnographic data has provided valuable insights into the construction materials, the feasibility, and estimated time required to build a flotilla of ḫallimanu. The cargo capacity described in cuneiform texts offer an excellent dataset for further research, particularly through an experimental case-study. By testing the volume and cargo capacity per raft, as well as evaluating its fully loaded navigability, historians will be better equipped to assess the historical impact of these rafts, such as the ḫallimu, in fostering connectivity between wetland societies in the Persian Gulf region
