The big brown eyes of Samuel Pepys Wilson, Graham A; Field, Amanda P; Fullerton, Susannah
Archives of ophthalmology,
07/2002, Letnik:
120, Številka:
7
Journal Article
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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) is known for writing the finest diary in the English language. He was a man of remarkable accomplishments who transformed the English Navy, was president of the Royal ...Society, and was a member of the British Parliament. He survived the Great Plague and imprisonment in the Tower of London. During the years when he was writing the diary, Pepys began to experience great pain in his eyes when reading and writing and from photophobia, which caused him to give up writing the diary. Pepys also had an ultimately unjustifiable fear of blindness.
Making the Geologic Now announces shifts in cultural sensibilities and practices. It offers early sightings of an increasingly widespread turn toward the geologic as source of explanation, ...motivation, and inspiration for creative responses to conditions of the present moment. In the spirit of a broadside, this edited collection circulates images and short essays from over 40 artists, designers, architects, scholars, and journalists who are actively exploring and creatively responding to the geologic depth of “now.” Contributors’ ideas and works are drawn from architecture, design, contemporary philosophy and art. They are offered as test sites for what might become thinkable or possible if humans were to collectively take up the geologic as our instructive co-designer—as a partner in designing thoughts, objects, systems, and experiences.
Multiple Murder Susannah Holroyd; Jane Scott; Betty Eccles ...
Twisting in the Wind,
03/1998
Book Chapter
The peculiar practice of killing relatives for pin-money appears to have caught on in England by 1840, initially, at least, as a response to the pressure of poverty. A correlation between rates of ...theft and depressed economic conditions was made at the time;¹ with hindsight, there is no reason to exclude murder for insurance money from such an exercise, and every reason to indict women as the chief perpetrators. Women had the responsibility of putting food on the table. This position not only pressured them into obtaining it, but afforded them the opportunity to doctor it so as to eliminate
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