A classificação das disciplinas matemáticas e a Mathesis Universalis nos séculos XVI e XVII: um estudo do pensamento de Adriaan van Roomen

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

A Razão e o Sagrado: suas contribuições filosóficas para a dessacralização da natureza

Este trabalho tem como objetivo mostrar como se efetuou, historicamente, através das idéias dos filósofos Pitágoras, Parmênides, Sócrates, Platão, Aristóteles, Tomás de Aquino, Francis Bacon, Descartes e Newton, a cisão entre os dois modos de conhecimento, o racional e o sensorial e como foi construída a religião cristã, de onde se originaram seus principais elementos, a imortalidade da alma e a existência de Deus, que fundamentaram uma religião tipicamente antropocêntrica, contributiva para uma visão utilitarista da natureza. Entende-se que estas duas categorias são essenciais para se entender como a natureza passou a ser dessacralizada completamente pelo ser humano e como foram criadas as bases filosóficas para a houvesse a dominação dos homens sobre outros homens, postas em práticas com o advento do capitalismo.

Undergraduate Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences 2004 Book of Abstracts

In his work entitled The Advancement of Learning (1605), Francis Bacon expresses the need for students and their teachers to push beyond current knowledge by testing accepted theories, developing new paradigms, and discovering new information. The abstracts in this booklet are clear examples of how students and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences are advancing knowledge in a variety of disciplines. From the analysis of particular proteins to the examination of various literary themes, the students whose scholarly endeavors are represented in this booklet pursued research projects that have explored new ideas; and their teachers have helped them to achieve their goals by providing expert guidance in the field of study, by challenging students to excel, and by encouraging them as they developed their ideas. Students and faculty should be very proud of the work reflected in these abstracts. These individual efforts and collaborations reveal what is best about Winthrop University as a learning community.

William Harvey revisited

William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood is often described as a product of the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Modern research has, however, shown thatHarvey followed the Aristotelian research tradition and thus tried to reveal the purpose of the organs through examination of various animals. His publication of 1628 has to be read as an argument of natural philosophy, or, more precisely, as a series of linked observations, experiments and philosophical reasonings from which the existence of circulation has to be deduced as a logical consequence. Harvey did not consider experiments as superior to philosophical reasoning nor intended he to create a new system of medicine. He believed in the vitality of the heart and the blood and rejected Francis Bacon's empirism and the mechanistic rationalism of Descartes. Harvey's contribution and originality lied less in his single observations and experiments but in the manner how he linked them with critical reasoning and how he accepted, presented and defended the ensuing radical findings.

Narraciones espaciales desde el cuerpo. Una aproximación arquitectónica a las relaciones de sumisión, violencia y armonía

Este trabajo de investigación pretende poner en valor una comprensión del espacio desde la vinculación existente entre el cuerpo y el complejo e inestable ambiente que habita. Por un lado, el cuerpo, con sus relaciones, acciones y afectos, se erige como la herramienta clave para entender las dinámicas de producción espacial contemporánea, por otro, la inclusión de la escala humana, hace que los grandes relatos se desvanezcan en favor de una serie de vínculos sensibles que re-humanizan la arquitectura y atienden a las sensaciones del individuo. Así, se pone de manifiesto una narración que sitúa al cuerpo como protagonista y en la que su vinculación con la espacialidad fluctúa entre la sumisión, la violencia y la armonía para con los otros cuerpos y el espacio. Como caso de estudio, se ha tomado la más abyecta y violenta de las construcciones: el campo de concentración de Auschwitz, en un intento de re-pensarlo desde los afectos del individuo y de problematizar las relaciones y acciones contemporáneas –que de acuerdo con el filósofo Michael Foucault- derivan hacia derroteros de control y violencias invisibles. Dicha tarea se nutre de una multiplicidad de cartografías como instrumento de conocimiento para visibilizar narraciones arquitectónicas a través del cuerpo, con el objetivo tanto del análisis de situaciones acontecidas, como de operar sobre nuevas oportunidades espaciales.

[Student essay on life's uncertainty] (fragment), undated

Folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten essay on life's uncertainty with an epitaph from English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon (1561-1626): "He that to vain mortality does trust, / But limns the water, or but writes in dust." The remaining pages of the essay are missing.

Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick castle, Northumberland ...

[Introduction]--Of tribute, or giving what is due, by Francis Bacon.--Of magnaminitie, by Francis Bacon.--Advertisement touching private censure, by Francis Bacon.--Advertisement touching the controversies of the Church, by Francis Bacon.--Letter to a French gentleman touching the proceedings in England in ecclesiastical causes, by Francis Bacon.--Speech of the Earl of Sussex.--Letter from Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth on her proposed marriage to the Duke of Anjou.--Leicesters commonwealth.

Baconiana /

Mode of access: Internet.

The misfortunes of Arthur,

The body of the play was Hughes; he "was assisted by seven others--William Fulbecke with two speeches; Nicholas Trotte with an introduction; Francis Flower with the choruses in acts I. and II.; Christopher Yelverton, Francis Bacon, and John Lancaster (who superintended the dumb shows) and M. Penroodocke (who directed the representation)"--Pref.

The juvenile Plutarch : containing accounts of the lives of celebrated children and of the infancy of persons who have been illustrious for their virtues or talents.

"Price Half-a-Crown."

The gift of love /

John Ruskin.--Ralph Waldo Emerson.--Robert Burton.--Percy Bysshe Shelley.--Francis Bacon.--Joseph Addison.--Thomas Carlyle.--E. P. B.--William Hazlitt.--Earl of Beaconsfield.

The management of electrical machinery.

Mode of access: Internet.

Electric motors,

Mode of access: Internet.

Electric motors,

Mode of access: Internet.

Prefaces and prologues to famous books : with introductions and notes.

(Contents, cont.) Preface of Fables, ancient and modern / by J. Dryden -- Preface to Joseph Andrews, by H. Fielding -- Preface to the English dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare / by S. Johnson -- Introduction to the Propylaen / by J.W. von Goethe-- Prefaces to various volumes of poems; Appendix to Lyrical ballads; Essays supplementary to preface / by William Wordsworth -- Preface to Cromwell / by Victor Hugo -- Preface to Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman -- Introduction to the History of English literature / by H.A. Taine.