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Emil Wohlwill 1835-1912
No full textBiography of Emil Wohlwill, based mainly on his letters to his sister and wife; childhood and education in Hamburg; interest in literature and art; patriotism and engagement in "Hamburger Arbeitsverein"; work as a chemist; travel to Italy for research on Galileo book.Emil Wohlwill (Hamburg 1835 - 1912) was the son of Immanuel Wohlwill (ME 696). He was a chemist at the "Hamburger Affinerie" and president of the Hamburger Arbeitsverein. Wohlwill was also the author of a book on Galileo Galilei.Synopsis in fileEducation; primary and secondary; before 1871Hamburger Arbeitsverei
Carrie's letters to her Emil. Published for the author.
No full textEdited by Emil Klopfer.Mode of access: Internet.BANC; F855.K5: Bancroft Library also has positive microfilm.BANC; F855.K5: Master negative available (89-0183). Shelved with Main's negatives
Pioneer Finns and Swedes of Delaware Valley Before William Penn
No full textA brief history of Finnish and Swedish settlers in the Delaware River Valley, starting with the 17th century. By Emil Linclon Ostman
Emil Fahrenkamp: Bauten und Projekte für Berlin
No full textThema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die umfassende Aufarbeitung und Dokumentation der Bauten und Projekte Emil Fahrenkamps (*1885, 1966) in Berlin und Potsdam-Babelsberg sowie die kritische Einordnung seiner Arbeiten in den Kontext der Baugeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Den zentralen Untersuchungsgegenstand bildet, neben der gebaudespezifischen Erfassung der Bau- und Planungsprozesse und der Gebaudebeschreibung Fahrenkamps grosstadtische Arbeiten und Entwurfe in ihrem gesellschaftlichen Kontext zu analysieren. Zeitlich umfasst die Arbeitsphase Fahrenkamps in Berlin die Jahre zwischen 1920 und 1945, in denen er seine bauliche Aktivitaten sowohl fur private Bauherrn als auch fur offentliche Auftraggeber etablieren und ausbauen konnte. Emil Fahrenkamp galt bisher als ein Vertreter der Moderne in Deutschland. Dieses fest gefugte Bild entstand durch die einseitige Gleichsetzung seiner Architektur mit dem Shell-Haus, das in den Jahren 192932 nach seinen Planen in Berlin errichtet wurde und das zur Ikone grosstadtischen Bauens in der baugeschichtlichen Bewertung geworden ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit sucht diese Sicht auf Emil Fahrenkamp kritisch zu hinterfragen und zu differenzieren. Indem sie exemplarisch seine Arbeiten fur Berlin aufarbeitet, gelingt eine neue Sicht seiner architektonischen Intention und damit eine Neubewertung seiner Bedeutung in der deutschen Baugeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.Architectur
Emil Cioran: The transfiguration of Romania
No full textTitle: Schimbarea la faţă a României (The transfiguration of Romania) Originally published: Bucharest: Vremea, 1936 Language: Romanian The present excerpts are from Emil Cioran, Schimbarea la faţă a României (Bucharest: Humanitas, 1990), pp. 39–43, 59–60. About the author Emil Cioran [1911, Răşinari (Hun. Resinár; Ger. Städterdorf), (Transylvania) – 1995, Paris]: philosopher. His father was an Orthodox priest. After completing his secondary education in Sibiu in 1927, he went to Bucharest to ..
Choral Works of Emil Hradecký
No full textThis thesis deals with the figure of contemporary Czech composer Emil Hradecký with a special respect to choral compositions. In the first chapter the author introduces Emil Hradecký as a mUSlC teacher, composer and publisher. In the following chapter she describes Hradecký's music work in general, inc1uding his methodological handbooks and instructive pieces. The core of the thesis is the part which focuses on Hradecký's choral works. It contains a complete list of his choral works and analysis of several works which il1ustrate his various compositional styles. The significance of this thesis is in its survey of Hradecký's choral works, especially due to the fact that a monograph about this composer has not been published yet. The author hopes that this thesis might contribute to extending of the general knowledge about this composer
Causality, realism and the two strands of Boltzmann's legacy (1896 - 1936)
No full textStöltzner M. Causality, realism and the two strands of Boltzmann's legacy (1896 - 1936). Bielefeld (Germany): Bielefeld University; 2003.My thesis investigates a debate between Vienna and Berlin about the view that the basic laws of nature are genuinely indeterministic that started long before the advent of quantum mechanics. It involved two different readings of Ludwig Boltzmann's legacy statistical mechanics and two different answers to how causality and ontology ought to be combined. Having adopted Ernst Mach's weak notion of causality, the local Viennese tradition could more easily contemplate ontologies for irreducibly statistical laws that were different from classical physics, while the Berlin tradition departed from Planck's reading of the Kantian tradition, according to which strictly deterministic laws represented an indispensable basis even for probabilistic theories.
Vienna Indeterminism, as I shall call the first reading, became characteristic for a series of physicist-philosophers connected to the Institute of Physics at the University of Vienna, among them Franz Serafin Exner, Erwin Schrödinger, Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises. It involved the acceptance of the highly improbable events admitted by the second law of thermodynamics, an assent to Mach's definition of causality in terms of functional dependencies, an empiricist shift of the burden of proof on the determinist's shoulders, and the adoption of the relative frequency interpretation of probability. Planck and his student Moritz Schlick initially rejected all of these creeds.
While the Viennese reading of Boltzmann's legacy made it possible to accept probabilistic laws as genuine laws years before the advent of quantum mechanics, Schlick had to take a strictly verificationist tack to reconcile his views on probability with the failure of a Kant-inspired notion of causality enforced by the changes in physics. Until his death however, Schlick remained committed to the Spielraum interpretation of Johannes von Kries, compensating his qualified acceptance of indeterminism with an emphasis on the limits of language that were enforced by Heisenberg's uncertainty relations.
In view of claims that scientists' abandonment of determinism and causality was triggered, or at least enhanced, by external factors, among them the anti-scientific Weimar milieu and Bohr's power politics, the reconstruction of the philosophical debates between Vienna and Berlin requires historical contextualization. To this end, I initially recapitulate the Forman thesis and the discussions ensuing from it. Most important among them are the recent books of Cushing and Beller that, rejecting Forman's strong claims, nevertheless deny any constructive influence of the scientific aspirations of German physicists on the philosophical debates about causality and indeterminism in the 1920s.
Against this picture, I argue that the philosophical aspirations of physicist-philosophers were rather genuine and followed influential role models, among them Helmholtz and Mach. They represent a characteristic trait of the German-speaking scientific world and were expressed in academic addresses and in the publication of popular writings. After 1913, this philosophical discourse was conducted, to an increasing extent, on the pages of Die Naturwissenschaften. In a separate chapter, I study the role of philosophical and cultural matters in this journal, which can hardly be separated from the personality of its founding editor Arnold Berliner. At about 1930, this discourse among physicist-philosophers partly merged into scientific philosophy, as conducted by Logical Empiricists, and the newly founded Erkenntnis.
One of the characteristic features of the discourse among physicist-philosophers was that they were not strictly indebted to philosophical schools but rather willing to form strategic alliances. Such alliances emphasized one philosophical aspect that was considered pivotal at the time which other features, often expressing severe disagreements of content, were played down. This process can be witnessed at the end of the discussion between the Viennese and the Berliners in the 1930s, at a time when Schlick had already become the center of the Vienna Circle. Being confronted with a plethora of "metaphysical" misinterpretations and having taken the linguistic turn, Frank and Schlick formed a strategic alliance on the 1936 Copenhagen Congress for the Unity of Science. It brought them into opposition with Schrödinger's quest for a modification of quantum mechanics, although Schrödinger continued to be a staunch advocate of indeterminism. This year thus signifies the end of the coherence of Vienna Indeterminism, a tradition that reaches back to the publication of Boltzmann's Lectures of Gas Theory
Accelerating XR Innovation through a pan-European Lab Network: An overview of the EMIL project
No full textPublisher Copyright: © 2024 Owner/Author. | openaire: EC/HE/101070533/EU//EMILEuropean Media and Immersion Lab, or EMIL, is a pan-European network of extended reality (XR) labs consisting of 4 European academic institutions, with a mission to accelerate development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, content, services and applications. The 30-month project, which started in September 2022, has been funded by the European Union and co-funded by Innovate UK. This paper gives an overview of the project's goals, its organization, and selected results that have been achieved.Peer reviewe
Office staff, Co-op
No full textThe photograph is of the co-op staff before or after its banquet at the Bank Hotel in Delta, Utah. Emil Sekerak is in the middle, wearing dark glasses. Next to him with the bow tie is Dwight Uchida, author Yoshiko Uchida\u27s father. Mr. Kanzaki from San Francisco is in the photo but it is not clear which man he is
Emil Lask e il problema dell’emanatismo
No full textThe essay shows how the anti-emanationism represents a central element in Emil Lask’s thought. The author focuses especially on Lask’s methodological and social-juridical reflections, referring broadly to Lask’s correspondence. Lask’s concept of knowledge is viewed as a concept constantly suspended between the rejection of emanationism and the necessity of integrating the analytical logic
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