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Source Data for Xueyan Feng, Michael S. Dimitriyev & Edwin L. Thomas, "Soft, malleable double diamond twin"
No full textSource data and code for Xueyan Feng, Michael S. Dimitriyev & Edwin L. Thomas, "Soft, malleable double diamond twin"The primary support for this work is through a grant to E.L.T. from the NSF under award DMR 2105296. M.S.D. was supported by a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to UMass under award DE-SC0022229
Twentieth-century poetry and science : science in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Judith Wright, Edwin Morgan, and Miroslav Holub
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures’ and the ‘science wars’. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards’s Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid’s late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard’ technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan’s work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub’s work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion
O contrato social de Thomas Hobbes: alcances e limites
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaO problema em questão diz respeito ao contrato que funda e legitima o Estado em Thomas Hobbes. Tendo como escopo questionar a possibilidade e/ou impossibilidade de nulidade do contrato social e assim verificar as implicações disto para o conceito de soberania hobbesiana. A leitura que impera na tradição de estudiosos da obra política de Hobbes, em especial do Leviathan, é a de um Estado no qual a soberania é absoluta e irrevogável. A interpretação do contrato firmado entre e, somente, entre os homens, deixando, portanto, o soberano de fora, ofereceria legitimidade a este para agir de forma absoluta e obrigaria ao súdito a obedecer de forma irrestrita. A hipótese que se busca sustentar remete à possibilidade de rompimento, desobediência e mais centralmente da nulidade contratual a partir do vício e/ou desrespeito de determinadas cláusulas fundamentais do contrato, visto se oporem às condições de validade do contrato social. Se isso puder ser sustentado desse modo, isto é, se Hobbes compartilhar mesmo de uma teoria forte da nulidade contratual e pela razão, como declinado acima, que achamos ser a correta, então, tal formulação implicaria em sua teoria uma reconsideração do conceito de soberania e obediência, haja vista o estabelecimento de certos vínculos fortes que condicionam as possibilidades de exigência, autoridade e poder da soberania. Portanto, concentra-se em encontrar uma explicação e/ou teorização da nulidade do contrato social e da sua consequência para a teoria da soberania e obediência hobbesiana
Dedication of new hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, June 8, 1978
No full textStanding at the reception for the dedication of the new Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Gibbon Building) are, from left, Frederic L. Ballard (Board Chairman, TJU) and Edwin L. Taylor (Vice President for Business Affairs, TJUH).https://jdc.jefferson.edu/historical_photos/2007/thumbnail.jp
Raw data for "Visualizing the double gyroid twin"
No full textRaw Data for Xueyan Feng, Mujin Zhou, Hua Guo, & Edwin L. Thomas, "Visualizing the double gyroid twin
Dedication of new hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, June 8, 1978
No full textStanding at the reception for the dedication of the new Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Gibbon Building) is Edwin L. Taylor (left), Vice President for Business Affairs of the Hospital. Man at right unidentified.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/historical_photos/2003/thumbnail.jp
Special Order from Edwin McMasters Stanton
No full textSpecial Order No. 130 from Edwin McMasters Stanton, Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D.C., to Henry Connelly, Governor of New Mexico, dismissing First Lieutenant A. P. Damours, First New Mexico Volunteers, from Taos, who had not responded to the charges against him within the allowed time. He was charged with desertion and swindling, crime. Civil War. Written and signed by L. Thomas. HL introduction page overlaid by document. Order in English, handwritten, 1pp/fr
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The electric shepherd and the marvellous boy: literary evocations of Thomas Chatterton's 'suicide' in Philip K. Dick's 'A scanner darkly' and elsewhere
No full textReception at new hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, June 8, 1978
No full textMessrs. Frederic L. Ballard (Board of Directors, TJU) and Edwin L. Taylor (Vice President for Business Affairs, TJUH) attend a reception at the opening of the new hospital (Gibbon Building).https://jdc.jefferson.edu/historical_photos/2048/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Ned Thomas, portrait, Rice University
No full textPortrait of Dr. Edwin L. "Ned” Thomas, Dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and professor in Rice University’s Department of Materials Science. He is wearing a dark suit jacket, a blue shirt, and a red patterned tie. An expanse of green lawn is visible in the background. Original resource is a color photograph.Dr. Ned Thomas, Dean of Engineering at Rice University, 2011
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