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Lectures on the subject of mesmerism were equally delivered in New York in 1829, by Du Commun, a pupil of Mesmer, and by Dr. Underhill in various places from 1834 to 1838.
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* Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures on aesthetics, psychology and religious belief, Oxford, Blackwell, 1966.
Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.
The " Doctrine " part of the book consisted of a theological course now called the " Lectures on Faith ".
In 1921, the LDS Church removed the " Lectures on Faith " portion of the book, with an explanation that the Lectures " were never presented to nor accepted by the Church as being otherwise than theological lectures or lessons ".
* The Origins of the French Revolution, The French Revolution: The Moderate Stage, 1789 – 1792, and The French Revolution: The Radical Stage, 1792 – 1794, three essays from The History Guide: Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History
* The Nobel Prize Biography on Shaw, From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901 – 1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, ( 1969 ).
" Adams ' Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory ( 1810 ) looks at the fate of ancient oratory, the necessity of liberty for it to flourish, and its importance as a unifying element for a new nation of diverse cultures and beliefs.
In the Principles and Parameters Framework, which has dominated generative syntax since Chomsky's ( 1980 ) Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures, the acquisition of syntax resembles ordering from a menu: The human brain comes equipped with a limited set of choices, from which the child selects the correct options using her parents ' speech, in combination with the context.
Wittgenstein in his Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge 1939 criticised Principia on various grounds, such as:
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In 1894 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh, the subject being " The Philosophy and Development of Religion.
In 1967 Bronowski delivered the six Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University and chose as his subject the role of imagination and symbolic language in the progress of scientific knowledge.
He delivered the Lumleian Lectures in 1867 and the Croonian Lecture in 1885 to the Royal College of Physicians, both on the subject of pulmonary conditions.
He also wrote on the Arkite Egg ’ and some of his views on this subject may likewise be found in his Bampton Lectures.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica adjudges Ferrier's works as remarkable for their unusual charm and simplicity of style, qualities which are especially noticeable in the Lectures on Greek Philosophy, one of the best introductions on the subject in the English language.
The Oxford theologian, Dr B H Streeter, Provost of Queen's College, made it the subject of the Warburton Lectures, given at Oxford University in 1933-5.
In 1933, he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins University on the subject of American Diplomacy during the First World War.
In the Lent term of 1851 he delivered the Bampton Lectures, taking as his subject ‘ The Communion of the Saints: an Attempt to illustrate the True Principles of Christian Union ’ ( Oxford, 1851 ).
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The Lectures were a series of doctrinal courses used in the School of the Prophets which had recently been completed in Kirtland, Ohio.
According to the committee, these Lectures were included in the compilation " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation.
Ideals were first proposed by Richard Dedekind in 1876 in the third edition of his book Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie ( English: Lectures on Number Theory ).
In his Will, Boyle provided money for a series of lectures to defend the Christian religion against those he considered " notorious infidels, namely atheists, deists, pagans, Jews and Muslims ", with the provision that controversies between Christians were not to be mentioned ( see Boyle Lectures ).
His lectures were published in 1807 in the Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and contain a number of anticipations of later theories.
The first lectures and publications on organic agriculture stem from Rudolf Steiner, however, whose Lectures on Agriculture were published in 1925.
Lectures that Dōgen gave to his monks at his monastery, Eihei-ji, were compiled under the title Eihei Kōroku, also known as Dōgen Oshō Kōroku ( The Extensive Record of Teacher Dōgen ’ s Sayings ) in ten volumes.
" The Moore School Lectures ", as they came to be known, were attended by representatives from the army, the navy, MIT, the National Bureau of Standards, Cambridge University, Columbia, Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study, IBM, Bell Labs, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, and National Cash Register.
The G. M. Trevelyan Lectures, under the title The Unfinished Revolution, were published after his sudden and unexpected death in Rome in 1967.
After his death a succession of volumes, representing his various courses of lectures, appeared ( 1856-1864 ), in addition to the Lectures on the History of Dogma ( Theologische Vorlesungen ), admirable in spirit and execution, which were edited by JL Jacobi in 1857.
His Reischauer Lectures were published in The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia ( 1991 ).
The navigation abilities and other behavior of Sphex were studied by the ethologist Niko Tinbergen, as explained and demonstrated by Richard Dawkins in the 1991 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Growing Up in the Universe.
After his death, his friends subscribed the sum of £ 1, 700 to set up a memorial fund which is still used to promote the annual Joly Memorial Lectures at the University of Dublin, which were inaugurated by Sir Ernest Rutherford in 1935.
Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).
Haydon's Lectures, which were published shortly after their delivery, showed that he was as bold a writer as painter.
Lectures were held on topics ranging from Sufism to Synchronicity, and Bennett resumed work on the final volumes of his " personal whim ", the epic ' The Dramatic Universe ', which he had been working on for more than ten years, constantly writing, revising and re-writing.
In particular, the ideas presented in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres were adapted in many prestigious institutions of learning and served as the guide on composition for many years.
Lectures were predominantly popular in the United States, with colleges such as Yale and Harvard implementing Blair's theories.
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