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The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
Dr. Dawson and students
No full text1 b&w photograph.Very good condition photograph.St. Mary's professor of math, Dr. Robert Dawson and student Wendy Findow watch as student Philip Mac uses the computer.Written on back: 'Dr. R. Dawson, Philip Mac and Wendy Finbow - Aug/96'; 'R Dawson bio'Date Catalogued: Apr. 13/1
Letter from Arno B. Cammerer to J. R. Eakin
No full textLetter from Arno B. Cammerer to J. R. Eakin describing the procedure for purchasing Bright Angel Trail
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cosmic rays from the galactic center
No full textCopyright © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.Abstract not availableR. W. Clay, B. R. Dawson, J. Bowen and M. Debe
23 Squadron, 82 Wing
No full text"[Obscured] 23 Sqdn. 82 Wing. B24 Liberator New Guinea. Leyburn. Long Strip Fenton Strip Darwin RAAF Base. 1944-1945 O.B. Fry, Air Gunner Crew Members R. Kelly (C) Pilot. L. Woodland. Eng. A. Dawson Co-Pilot. Nobby Clark. Gunner Leader J. Clark W.A.G. M. Hennessey. Nav. K. Kemp A.G. A. Dalrymple. A.G. R. Arthur W.A.G. J. Potter. Bombadier. C.F.M. [Obscured][R.F.D. 1959-1984]."23 Squadron. 82 Wing B24 Liberator, New Guinea. Leyburn, Long Strip, Fenton Strip, Darwin Royal Australian Air Force Base. O. B. Fry, Air Gunner. R. Kelly, Captain, Pilot. A. Dawson, Co-Pilot. J. Clark, Wing Air Gunner. K. Kemp, Air Gunner. A. Dalrymple, Air Gunner. R. Arthur, Wing Air Gunner. J. Potter, Bombardier. L. Woodland, Engineer. Nobby Clark, Gunner Leader. M. Hennessey, Navigator.Date:199
General -- 1943 -- Correspondence, Military Service AEB/NVC -- letter, 1943-10-04
No full textLetter from Dawson, Jim to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1943-10-04.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Unsigned letter to F. J. Dawson
No full textUnsigned letter, possibly from T. B. Larimore or B. R. Colson, to F. J. Dawson. The one-page typewritten note is dated 29 November 1912
The two point angular autocorrelation function and the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays
No full textCopyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2000Construction of the Pierre Auger Observatory for the study of the highest energy cosmic rays is about to begin. Prior to the availability of data from that experiment, decisions should be made on techniques for the analysis of the directional properties of those data. We examine here one possible analysis tool, the two point angular autocorrelation function. As a concrete example, data from the SUGAR array are examined in this way. Possible clustering of the data is observed and the identification of such clustering with candidate astronomical objects in a purpose developed catalogue is investigated.R. W. Clay, B. R. Dawson, L. Kewley and M. Johnston-Hollit
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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