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Byrne & Strunk, Insect Destroyer.
No full textPatent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations
The English Lineage Of Diedrich Knickerbocker
No full textThe narrator of Washington Irving's A History of New York, an
odd, inquisitive gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker, who allegedly disappeared in I809, leaving behind him the manuscript of
this "only Authentic History of the Times that hath been, or ever will be Published,"1 revivifies a prominent figure in English comic fiction, the self-conscious narrator. Yet no readers of A History of New
York have commented extensively on this narrator's relationship to
eighteenth-century British writers. Among early critics, Sir Walter
Scott noted briefly that he had "never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift" and that he had also found "some touches which remind me much of Sterne."2 Among modern commentators, Stanley T. Williams, in his biography of Irving, says about
the author: "His most servile debts were to Fielding, whose conversations with the reader he reduces to tedium; to Sterne, whose Uncle
Toby, now with a Dutch name, again analyzes military science; to Swift, who begot the war of the Long-pipes and Short-pipes."3 More
sympathetic and more accurate about Sterne is William L. Hedges,
who finds the "key to Irving's achievement" in "the ingenious device
of Diedrich Knickerbocker, who manages to sound at once like
Sterne's first person narrators, and Fielding's cultivated omniscience
going berserk in mazes of irony."4 Neither Williams nor Hedges,
however, chose to discuss the precise nature of Knickerbocker's heritage from Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, or Jonathan Swift, whose
persona in A Tale of a Tub also bears a familial resemblance to Irving's narrator. The purpose of this essay, then, is to define more accurately Irving's use of a literary tradition by identifying Knickerbocker's relationship to Swift's Tubbian hack, Mr. Fielding, Author,
and Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Revised paleoecology of placodonts – with a comment on ‘The shallow marine placodont Cyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin: its evolution, paleobiogeography and paleoecology’ by C.G. Diedrich
No full textA recent article published by Diedrich (2011a, Hist Biol. iFirst online, 1–19, doi: 10.1080/08912963.2011.575938) aspired to provide a complete revision of the known material of the placodont genus Cyamodus Meyer, 1863 from the Germanic Basin of central Europe. It is the latest in a series of similar articles by the same author (see Diedrich 2010, Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 285(3–4):287–306; 2011b, Nat Sci. 3(1):9–27 for overview) focussing on the European members of the Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), a diverse group of enigmatic marine reptiles known from Triassic shallow marine deposits. In a similar fashion to some previous works by Diedrich (see Tintori 2011, Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 300(1–4):205–207 for similar points of criticism), this newest article demonstrates a narrow scope of presenting and discussing data, including omitted articles relevant to the topic, and over-interpretation of results, all with the aim of embedding the idea of placodonts being herbivorous Triassic ‘sea cows’ feeding on macroalgae (Diedrich 2010, 2011b). The present contribution is intended to clarify mistakes and misinterpretations made by Diedrich (2011a), to incorporate vital citations previously omitted which allow alternative interpretations, and to put the paper into perspective by including a more general evolutionary and paleoecological overview of the remaining placodonts
Revised paleoecology of placodonts – with a comment on ‘The shallow marine placodontCyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin: its evolution, paleobiogeography and paleoecology’ by C.G. Diedrich
No full textA recent article published by Diedrich (2011a, Hist Biol. iFirst online, 1–19, doi: 10.1080/08912963.2011.575938) aspired
to provide a complete revision of the known material of the placodont genus Cyamodus Meyer, 1863 from the Germanic
Basin of central Europe. It is the latest in a series of similar articles by the same author (see Diedrich 2010, Palaeogeogr
Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 285(3–4):287–306; 2011b, Nat Sci. 3(1):9–27 for overview) focussing on the European
members of the Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), a diverse group of enigmatic marine reptiles known from Triassic
shallow marine deposits. In a similar fashion to some previous works by Diedrich (see Tintori 2011, Palaeogeogr
Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 300(1–4):205–207 for similar points of criticism), this newest article demonstrates a narrow
scope of presenting and discussing data, including omitted articles relevant to the topic, and over-interpretation of results, all
with the aim of embedding the idea of placodonts being herbivorous Triassic ‘sea cows’ feeding on macroalgae (Diedrich
2010, 2011b). The present contribution is intended to clarify mistakes and misinterpretations made by Diedrich (2011a), to
incorporate vital citations previously omitted which allow alternative interpretations, and to put the paper into perspective by
including a more general evolutionary and paleoecological overview of the remaining placodonts
Author Correction: Prefrontal theta—gamma transcranial alternating current stimulation improves non-declarative visuomotor learning in older adults
No full textExploring Critical Urbanities: A Knowledge Co-Transfer Approach for Fragmented Cities in Water Landscapes
No full textThe urban conditions of many metropolitan regions in the Global South are marked by growing informal settlements, growing inequalities, and socio-spatial fragmentation. They face alterations of their natural-spatial context imposed by climate change and new hydrological patterns. Knowledge is needed to direct their transformation toward more sustainable futures. Academia plays an important role in this knowledge production process that bridges disciplines and geographies. It ensures links to professional actors, public authorities, and civil society in their respective localities. This chapter introduces the adaptation of a more collaborative, trans-disciplinary, and multi-directional working method called “Beyond Best Practice” that raises research questions around ever-evolving, multi-actor collaborations from a design thinking perspective. These research experiences allowed us to promote an open-ended, co-transfer thematic, and methodological knowledge process by developing and testing ideas in real-world laboratory situations. Its results can be redirected to the Global North, where patterns of informality increasingly characterize hotspots of critical urbanity and, in turn, would benefit from knowledge sourced in the Global South.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and StrategyEnvironmental Technology and Desig
Comment on “The vertebrates of the Anisian/Ladinian boundary (Middle Triassic) from Bissendorf (NW Germany) and their contribution to the anatomy, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the Germanic Basin reptiles” by C. Diedrich [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 273 (2009) 1–16]
No full textThe Middle Triassic vertebrates are proving to be very important witnesses of the post P/Tr crisis recovery, but also of the palaeobiology and paleogeography. The western Tethys (especially the Monte San Giorgio fossiliferous series) and the Germanic Basin are of particular interest as they show similar vertebrate assemblages in somewhat different environmental patterns and ages. Furthermore, the MSG specimens are usually complete and concentrated in different levels spanning from Late Anisian to Late Ladinian, while vertebrates of the Germanic basin often consist of scattered remains, sometimes gathered in bone-beds.
In the last years Diedrich proposed a number of restorations, concerning both organisms and palaeoenvironment. Very often his work does not consider other Authors’ papers, and a few concepts, such as the supposed ‘anatomic convergence’ between a sauropterigyan reptile and a mammal, appear scientifically unsound. In this comment the author points out some uncertain data and unproven conclusions in Diedrich’s pape
A Space to Explore, Places to Remember
No full textDeparting from a famous 19th century print published by Camille Flammarion, said to show the world and cosmos according to medieval beliefs, the author looks at the explorative character of Swedish landscape architect and artist Monika Gora, how it relates to spatial relations and to memory, with references to french philosopher Gaston Bachelard
Urban scaffolding: A topological design tool
No full textLandscape architecture, landscape urbanism, and urbanism provide a number of tools, methods, and techniques for the design of the built and unbuilt urban landscape. The interplay of these techniques is left up to the designers, and the resulting range of projects associated with the terms is broad and inconsistent. This paper proposes Urban Scaffolding as a way to reconfigure existing practices into a flexible, scalable, repeatable, and compact design mechanism that simultaneously discovers and intervenes in a territory. The method was developed through design projects that focused on reconnecting the urban and natural landscape by means of topological strategies. Two of these projects will be used as examples in this paper.Environmental Technology and Desig
Prole politics – adaptation as appropriation of techno in the works of Rainald Goetz
No full textIn this article, I will argue for a different notion of adaptation as a form of appropriation that allows a more productive analysis of the literary works of German author Rainald Goetz. Therefore I will draw on a specific understanding of pop music, which derives from Diedrich Diederichsen 'Über Pop-Musik' (On pop music). According to Diederichsen, pop-music is not limited to certain kinds of music, but moreover to the practices pop-music entails
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