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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Chronicle & Notices.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Noted elsewhere: William Rowan Hamilton and the Poetry of Science. By MARCUS TOMALIN [RaVoN] – ‘To summarise (all too briefly) just a few aspects of Hamilton’s scientific work, the method of general dynamics that he devised in the 1830s introduced the operator (later called the ‘Hamiltonian’ operator) which eventually provided a key analytical tool for [...]

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Schiavo Syndrome.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

The ‘comatose’ patient who wasn’t.

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The Art of Flying.

Friday, 9 October 2009

W.E. Garrett Fisher: The announcement of the sad death of Mr. Percy S. Pilcher, from an accident to his artificial wings on the 20th of September [1899], was probably the first intimation that people at large had of his experiments. They are highly characteristic, however, of the new departure which has been taken by the art of flight in the last ten years.

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