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... perhaps the most widely known prototype of the “scientist,” has persisted to our time. Because it is the physicist who has succeeded in discovering and perhaps even in controlling a force which can determine the fate of man and his whole world, it has become a commonplace to see in him...

..., Devine and Weston, who build a rocket that takes them to Mars. Devine is a businessman who wants to pillage the planet for its gold deposits, while Weston is a physicist—an obvious sendup of Haldane—who dreams of establishing a human colony, convinced that only by making our species multiplanetary can we...

..., professcr of government, subtly analyzed “Goethe’s Utopia” ; Rudolf Heberle, the ethnographer, spoke about “Sociological Aspects of Goethe’s Works”; the physicist George C. Jaffe on “Goethe’s Theory of Color”; the biologist E. H. Behre on “Goethe and Anatomy”; J. E. Uhler, professor...

... of what we do that would persuade a sociologist, a physicist, or a philosopher that literary critics “tell truths about the world” (15)? In considering Kramnick’s efforts to answer this question, I begin with the most persuasive element of his argument: his defense of close reading as the key method...

... to Pascal. There are several Pascals: the physicist, the in- ventor, the mystic, the man of the world, the mathematician, the literary artist, the fighting Pascal, the physically diseased Pascal, the emotionally introverted Pascal, the spiritually exalted Pascal : all of these Pascals enter...

... is the “experimental,” meaning that which is derived from laboratory analysis of sound waves after the manner of the physicist. This is the aspect of phonetics made sig- nificant by the work of such men as Kiienig, Miller, Paget, Scripture, Crandall, and Fletcher-to name only a few of the prominent con...

... religious thought. Finally, it must be said emphatically that there is no such thing as the clue to Pascal. There are several Pascals: the physicist, the in- ventor, the mystic, the man of the world, the mathematician, the literary artist, the fighting Pascal, the physically diseased Pascal...

... application of rules. It was enough to shift and apply them in order to be a physicist, an activity similar to that of “those who, having inherited palaces that are perfect for magnificence and comfort, have only to rearrange and redecorate the furniture according to the style of the time...

..., se disait-il, que celle d’un Lavoisier, dun Amfire’’ (I, 351). Actually, though Lavoisier was a chemist, Ampere was primarily a mathematician and physicist, discoverer of the principles of electrodynamics. When Graham complains about a lack of logic or clarity (pp. 252-53) in the images...

... or not an objective chronological time existed outside human consciousness. Bergson said yes, seeing chronological time as the foil for his theories of fluid, subjective time, the élan vital of experienced and creative time. As a physicist theorizing the cosmos, Einstein said no, the chronological times of clocks...

... simultaneous temporalities of literary criticism as well. I am grateful to Marshall Brown, Nergis Ertürk, Marta Figlerowicz, Margreta de Grazia, Kyle Hutzler, Peter Kalliney, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and an anonymous physicist for their feedback on this essay. 1 While Einstein and Bergson...

... of his activities not only as a mathematician and physicist but as an apologist as well. This bears on a point Thirouin ( 2015 : 104–5) brings out in his own analysis of the “reason of effects.” Although, in writing of effects, Pascal thinks in the first instance about the natural effects of natural...

...- surement—my first marker—and how this question affects notions of agency no less than those of cause and effect, run like a mantra through Paul Feyerabend’s last book. They do so via Albert Einstein’s remark “For us who are convinced physicists, the distinction between past...

..., was professionally a physicist, might have deferred publication still longer. The leaflets referred to had been distributed through Italy “con grande e suhito applauso.” The book, after it had been issued, was reprinted in many places (with or without his permission, and probably without any profit to him...

... something of a theoretical physicist: “Certes, j’ai retenu aussi et la ‘‘Paris, 1965, p. 190 MARK J. TEMMER 217 loi de Planck, pas si difficile B ‘encaisser’ qu’on pourrait le croire, et le principe de l’incertitude, et la relativitC de 1’Espace et du...

... of the Newtonian physicist was supposed to work with an absolute precision, for the vagaries of quantum physics were happily unknown.) Under the spell of the myth of the ideally isolated system, one is tempted to prescribe as remedies simple removal tech- niques. If there is something wrong-a “bug...

... servir 6 l’Hiistoire d’un genre de polypes d’Eau Douce, 6 Brm en forme de Cornes, Leiden, Verbeck, 4 vols., reprinted at Paris, Durand, 1744, 2 vols. 7 RenC Antoine Ferchault de RCaumur, 1683-1757, geometrician, physicist, naturalist, inventor of the thermometer that bears his name...

... underdogs in need of defense against an allegedly dominant empiricist positivism that no longer prevails even in the sciences. Although one can count on journalistic diatribes about the humanities to give caricatures of positivism a feeble but persistent lease on life, physicists since Werner Heisenberg...

...” and “phoneme,” the task of the linguist must be, not to catalogue the sounds which physicists can register with their apparatuses, but to inquire into the problem: which sounds are conceived as distinct by a com- munity, and which groupings of phonemes are possible there? Rut scant attention...

...- stitutes that absolute space and time which were thought to be essen- tial in the universe of regular, mathematically predictable law. At the same time, the great physicist, who was extremely devout, wished to guard against making God a gigantic idol. So he asserted : He is not eternity...