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"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
No full textThe Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum is one of the most important first-hand accounts of life in fifteenth-century Turkey known to modern scholarship. It is the work of a Christian former slave of the Turks, writing after his return to the West. Although the author does not name himself, he can be identified as a
Dominican priest, Georgius de Hungaria, who died in Rome in 1502. His Tractatus is conceived as a work of anti-Islamic polemic, yet it contains a surprisingly unbiased appraisal of Turkish customs.
First printed c.1480 when European apprehension in the face of Ottoman expansion was at its height, the Tractatus was reprinted in numerous editions, and was widely used as a
source by other authors. Luther edited the text in 1530, using the positive account of Turkish customs and religious observance as a weapon in his polemic against the Roman
Catholic Church: if heathens could perform such exemplary works, who could fail to doubt the efficacy of works as a means of salvation?
Sebastian Franck in his German translation of the Tractatus went further: replacing Georgius' commentary with his own, he used the text to attack institutional religion as a
whole and to promote his concept of a non-dogmatic, spiritual Church of individuals united with each other only through their union with God -a Church which was not closed to Moslems or members of any other creed. This translation or adaptation, the Cronica der Türckey, marks Franck's decisive break with the Lutheran cause and the beginning of his lonely path as a 'spiritual individualist'. Franck reworked his translation of the Tractatus for his major geographical work, the Weltbuch of 1534.
This thesis concerns itself primarily with Franck's Cronica, providing the first modern critical edition of this text, in a near-diplomatic transcription with an extensive glossary. The thesis also includes transcriptions of the Tractatus; of Türckei, an anonymous translation of the Tractatus, and of relevant additional material from Franck's Weltbuch. None of these texts has been published in full in a modern edition.
In the Introduction Franck's Cronica is compared in detail with the Tractatus, highlighting the changes that occur in translation; the character and the significance of these changes are then discussed. It is established that Franck, whilst being unwilling to reverse any of Georgius' value judgements on Islam and Turkish culture, is highly selective in his choice of material for translation, and frequently gives the text new nuances and adds his own
comment. The question of the Tractatus' influence on Franck's further development as a writer and thinker is also raised.
The investigation then turns to Franck's use of the Tractatus material in his Weltbuch. His eclecticism becomes apparent in this text, in which Georgius' account is juxtaposed - but not synthesised - with material from other sources, often of lesser veracity and greater anti-Islamic bias. Franck's distortion of the Tractatus material to suit his own line of argument is clearly discernible: from the unique phenomenon presented in the Tractatus the Turks
become one more example of the general human tendency to externalise and dogmatise faith.
In addition, the transmission of Cronica and Türckei is examined, and the relationship between these two translations is clarified: Franck certainly used Türckei in writing his Cronica, but is unlikely to be the author of the anonymous work
On the role of satellite communications for emergency situations with a focus on Europe
No full textInternational audienceIn this paper, we describe how satellite communications may contribute to disaster management. During emergency situations, satellite communications present many advantages in supporting or replacing a terrestrial infrastructure (if any) subject to destruction or saturation. However, devising the right deployment model deserves close scrutiny in order to fit the responders needs and sustain financial viability. After reading the paper, we expect that the answers to the following questions will be made clear: what are the roles of telecommunications in emergency situations? How can satellite technologies help? How to mitigate the cost of deploying and using satellite facilities? Who are the actors currently involved in emergency telecommunications and more specifically satellite-assisted emergency telecommunications
Prediction of stellar occultations by satellite of asteroids
No full textInternational audienceOur group is working on the orbit determination of asteroid satellites on the last four years gathering data recorded with several AO systems. Based upon our observations, we focused specifically on models for (22) Kalliope, (121) Hermione, (45) Eugenia and (90) Antiope systems characterizing accurately their dynamical and physical properties (Marchis et al., 2003, 2004a, 2004b). These models will be regularly improved with new observations
Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck. Du remède secret à la spécialité
No full textThe Grains de santé du Dr Franck. From secret remedy to patent medicine.
After a short history of secrets remedies, the author presents the "Grains de santé du Dr Franck". She tells about their compound and indications, about their owner (Dr Audin-Rouvière) and its misunderstandings with the medical Academy because of the name of "Dr Franck". Finally, the author presents the evolution of this secret remedy to a patent medicine, sold buy Troncin laboratory.Après un bref rappel de l'histoire des remèdes secrets, l'auteure présente « Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck » : leurs composition et indication, leur propriétaire le Dr Audin-Rouvière, ses démêlés avec l'Académie de médecine au sujet du nom du Dr Franck, et enfin l'évolution du remède secret vers la spécialité vendue par le laboratoire Troncin.Raynal Cécile. Les Grains de santé du Dr Franck. Du remède secret à la spécialité. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 95ᵉ année, n°359, 2008. pp. 263-274
Searching and Studying Binary Asteroids with AO Systems
No full textInternational audienceOur group has conducted adaptive optics observations of asteroids since 2001. Our main goal is the search and study of binary asteroids using several AO systems (Lick, Keck, VLT) and related technique such as Appulse (Berthier and Marchis, 2002) and Laser Guide Star observations (Marchis et al., AGU-EGS, 2003) to broaden the sample of asteroids observed from the main-belt out to the Kuiper Belt. We focussed our program last year on Trojan Asteroids. Six of them were observed using Appulses with Keck AO ( ˜0.05-0.10", mv=15.4-18.5), 6 with the LGS at Lick ( ˜0.25-0.35", m
Analysis of Extended Objects with the Gemini Planet Imager
No full textThe Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a recently commissioned near infrared instrument located in the Gemini South telescope. It is specifically designed for the direct imaging of exoplanets but it also has the capability to observe solar system objects such as asteroids and moons (eg. Jupiters moons). The asteroid Pallas the Moon Europa and the planet Neptune were observed to feature the potential of GPI adaptive Optics (AO) to study objects in our solar system. This project presents the first analysis of extended objects observed with the GPI instrument. Our analysis shows that Pallas a large asteroid located in the main-belt seems to be homogeneous from .9 to 2.5 μm and no features (craters difference in composition) were observed through GPI observations. Also no moonlets smaller than .5 km were detected. Observations of Europa icy satellite of Jupiter were mainly covering its leading hemisphere. The leading hemisphere overall reflectance is higher than the trailing hemisphere. The compositional map that was generated reproduces the features seen using the Galileo space mission where low latitude trailing hemisphere contains the large fraction of non-water ice material while the high latitude regions contains the most pure water ice. Neptune observations show the lower cloud deck of the planet is remarkably uniform while the upper clouds are localized in different latitudes of planet. Our observations suggest the predominance of intermediate clouds in middle latitudes and the predominance of upper clouds near the poles. The South Polar feature seems to have intermediate clouds and upper clouds in the GPI observations. Observations of Solar System bodies using the target itself as a guide star for the AO system are doable with GPI. The motion of the targets is properly corrected enabling observations of extended solar system bodies like main-belt asteroids icy planets and their satellites
Effect of gravity on clustering patterns and inertial particles attractors
No full textIn this contribution we study the clustering of inertial particles using a periodic kinematic simulation. The systematic Lagrangian tracking of particles makes it possible to identify the particles’ clustering patterns for different values of particle’s inertia and drift velocity. The different cases are characterised by different pairs of Stokes number St and drift parameter ϒ. For the present study 0 ≤ St ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ ϒ ≤ 2. The main focus is to identify and then quantify the clustering attractor - when it exists - that is the set of points in the physical space where the particles settle when time goes to infinity. Depending on gravity or drift effect and inertia values, the Lagrangian attractor can have different dimensions varying from the initial three-dimensional space to two-dimensional layers and one-dimensional attractors that can be shifted from an horizontal to a vertical position
ASSIGNING COMPLEX VIBRATION-TUNNELING SPECTRA USING FRANCK-CONDON FINGERPRINTS
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il 61801We propose Franck-Condon fingerprinting as a method to assign complex vibration-tunneling spectra. The electronic excited state of Thiophosgene () is our prototype case. Assignment of its spectrum has proven to be difficult because large tunneling splittings and near-degenerate vibrational frequencies. The dispersed fluorescence spectrum of each unkown vibration-tunneling state reveals its wavefunction character onto the known vibrational progressions in the ground states. This Franck-Condon fingerprint allows us to assign several vibration-tunneling states of in the electronic excited state. These assigned transitions could be fitted by an effective vibration-tunneling Hamiltonian within measurement uncertainty
Social Alienation and Gendered Surveillance: Julia Franck Observes Post-\u3cem\u3eWende\u3c/em\u3e Society
No full textBorn in East Berlin in 1970, author Julia Franck has published four works, in which once can trace her critique of social alienation in post-Wende German society.1 Franck\u27s project employs unreliable first-person narrators who believe that their acts of gendered surveillance will give them access to symbolic and social capital, which these narrators lack, in the vacuum of meaningful relationships in which they find themselves in contemporary Germany. Examples of the desired symbolic capital include honor, prestige, and having a voice to which others listen, and the sought-after social capital consists of networks, reciprocal connections, and trust.2 But this analysis also leads to Franck\u27s more complex and subtle critique of post-Wende indifference to Vergangenheitsbewältigung, or coming to terms with the past, which one finds in two narrators\u27 offhand, almost unremarked (but quite remarkable) references to Germany\u27s past
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