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Pascal and Messing Identure Agreement
No full textIndenture agreement made between John P. Pascal and Henry Messing. Handwritten note on verso states 'Pascal to Messing Lease of Block No 73.' Nobili Estate paper No. 1-H
Pascal and Bulkley Property Bequest Affidavit
No full textAffidavit signed by John P. Pascal and William R. Bulkley concerning Santa Clara College property bequests. Document notarized by L. Archer
John P. MacLean portrait
No full textPhotograph of Ohio author John P. MacLean (1848-1939). MacLean was born in Franklin, Ohio, and is remembered as a Universalist minister, historian and archaeologist. In addition to writings on Scottish history and the Shakers, his work included the books "A Manual of the Antiquity of Man" (1877), "The Mound Builders" (1879) and "Mastodon, Mammoth and Man" (1880)
John P. MacLean portrait
No full textPhotograph of Ohio author John P. MacLean (1848-1939). MacLean was born in Franklin, Ohio, and is remembered as a Universalist minister, historian and archaeologist. In addition to writings on Scottish history and the Shakers, his work included the books "A Manual of the Antiquity of Man" (1877), "The Mound Builders" (1879) and "Mastodon, Mammoth and Man" (1880)
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Letter from John P. John to Joseph R. Goodman, 1942
No full textLetter from John P. John to Joseph R. Goodman: "Here are a couple of letters Caleb received concerning the Japanese situation. I have already sent him a condensed record of their general text. Probably more material will be coming in from time to time and we will forward it to you. I guess this is sufficient since Caleb has spoken with you in detail about the problem and where he is to be contacted in the east. Louise Thompson and I are holding things down while Caleb is away and can be contacted here by mail for anything."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Riprap Stability Model Tests
No full textI. Introduction and Background 11. Test Setup and Conditions 111. Presentation of Data IV. Results V. Conclusions Appendices 1. Definition of Terms 2. Photographs of Model Dike Section 3. Model Riprap Stone Analysis 4. Tables of Expected Percent Damage for Armor Stone with Unit WeightsKWP-collectio
Genuine memoirs of the celebrated Miss Maria Brown [electronic resource] : Exhibiting the life of a courtezan, in the most fashionable scenes of dissipation. Published by the author of a W** of P*** In two volumes.
No full textAuthor of a W** of P*** [Woman of Pleasure] = John Cleland, to whom this work is sometimes attributed.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
John Burroughs, Naturalist and Author.
No full textLantern slide of photograph John Burroughs, naturalist and author, circa 1905.https://research.library.kutztown.edu/lanternslideseducation/1586/thumbnail.jp
Blaise Pascal, Essay pour les coniques
No full textPapier, In-fol. plano plié in-4°De l’étude de géométrie projective de Desargues, qu’il fréquentait dans le groupe de Mersenne, le tout jeune Pascal tira le principe de son Essai pour les coniques , qui revendique lui aussi la recherche d’« une manière plus universelle qu’à l’ordinaire ». Cette simple esquisse de recherches en cours et de travaux plus ambitieux est à la fois la première publication de l’auteur et le plus ancien écrit qu’on lui connaisse. Publié sans doute au mois de février de l’année 1640, l’ Essai avoue sa dette à l’endroit de Desargues, désigné comme l’« un des grands esprits de ce temps et des plus versés aux mathématiques », mais il révèle déjà une pensée originale : on y trouve, dans le premier « lemme », la formulation primitive du théorème de l’hexagone inscrit, qui restera connu comme « théorème de Pascal ». On y relève aussi une sobriété de l’expression mathématique poussée jusqu’à la sécheresse, qui contraste avec le style imagé de Desargues mais s’inscrit dans une recherche de brièveté propre au « style géométrique » tel que le recommandait Dounot en tête de sa traduction des Éléments d’Euclide . Le modèle euclidien de l’expression mathématique est d’ailleurs clairement indiqué par Pascal lorsqu’il désigne son Essai comme un échantillon d’« Éléments coniques complets » à venir. L’ Essai se présente sous forme d’un placard imprimé d’un seul côté de feuille. Cette forme, qui n’a pour l’époque rien d’exceptionnel, s’explique par le caractère programmatique du texte : « échantillon » (specimen), dira le P. Mersenne en 1644. Comme le Brouillon projet de Desargues de 1639, l’ Essai de Pascal fut tiré à cinquante exemplaires réservés à une diffusion dans le cercle des proches de Pascal et des correspondants de Mersenne : les lettres de celui-ci montrent qu’il s’occupa notamment d’en envoyer, en mars 1640, en Angleterre (à Théodore Haak, à John Pell) et aux Pays-Bas, où il chargea aussi Constantin Huygens d’en faire parvenir un exemplaire à Descartes, auquel il avait annoncé avec enthousiasme le travail en cours de Pascal dès novembre 1639. Cette diffusion privée, la forme de feuille volante, et peut-être aussi les défauts de l’impression, où les erreurs sont assez nombreuses et nuisent à la parfaite intelligibilité des figures, ont contribué à la disparition presque totale de l’édition, dont ne subsistent plus que deux exemplaires : celui de Hanovre, qui appartint à Leibniz, et celui de Paris. Tous deux proviennent des papiers de Pascal hérités par la famille Périer. Celui de Paris fut détaché au XX e siècle d’un recueil de ses écrits mathématiques que Marguerite Périer avait légué à l’oratoire de Clermont en 1723 et qui passa quelques années plus tard dans la bibliothèque personnelle de l’oratorien Pierre Guerrier ; Guerrier de Bezance, héritier de ce dernier, le donna en 1779 à la Bibliothèque royale.téléchargeabl
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