Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

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.

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 ".

* 1966 Amorites and Canaanites, ( Schweich Lectures Series, 1963 ), London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford * University Press, 1966.

* Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures, a book by American linguist Noam Chomsky

* The Evolution of Christianity ( Lowell Lectures ( 1896, reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-108-00019-2 )

When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs.

The Gifford Lectures are lectures established by the will of Adam Lord Gifford.

* Lectures on Perelman's proof by T. Tao.

* Video Lectures by David Deutsch

Arguably one of the most influential schools of rhetoric during this time was Scottish Belletristic rhetoric, exemplified by such professors of rhetoric as Hugh Blair whose Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres saw international success in various editions and translations.

Ideals were first proposed by Richard Dedekind in 1876 in the third edition of his book Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie ( English: Lectures on Number Theory ).

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

Being the Darwin Lectures for 2003, including one by Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin's role in determining the structure of DNA.

More recently, see Frederick Copleston, Religion and the One: Philosophies East and West ( University of Aberdeen Gifford Lectures 1979-1980 ) and the special section " Fra Oriente e Occidente " in Annuario filosofico No. 6 ( 1990 ), including the articles " Plotino e l ' India " by Aldo Magris and " L ' India e Plotino " by Mario Piantelli.

* The Five Great Battles of Antiquity by David L. Smith, Symposion Lectures, 30 June 2006.

In 1793 he explained the mode in which the eye accommodates itself to vision at different distances as depending on change of the curvature of the crystalline lens ; in 1801 he was the first to describe astigmatism ; and in his Lectures he presented the hypothesis, afterwards developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, that colour perception depends on the presence in the retina of three kinds of nerve fibres.

* A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts ( 1807, republished 2002 by Thoemmes Press ).

Equation 10 in section 14 of Lectures on Celestial Mechanics by Siegel and Moser shows the relation between the masses of the bodies and the distances between them in the case of a collinear orbit.

There are two volumes containing lectures and speeches: Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes by Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov.

* The Nobel Prize Biography on Shaw, From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901 – 1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, ( 1969 ).

He delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins on the Wilson administration's policy towards neutrals in 1917-1918, later published in 1942.

In 1930 he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins University.

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.

On 21 May 2008, Short gave a lecture as part of the Ebor Lectures 2008 Series on entitled " Apocalypse Now – Global Equity and Sustainable Living, the Preconditions for Human Survival.

King was chosen to deliver the 2003 Massey Lectures, entitled The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative.

In 1998 he wrote and presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, entitled War in our World.

In April 2010, Danner delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford, entitled " Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception.

The Lectures were published in 1835 as the Doctrine portion of the volume entitled Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God ( better known simply as the Doctrine and Covenants ).

The general conference of the Church in April 1835 had accepted the entire volume, including the Lectures, not simply the portion entitled " Covenants and Commandments ," as authoritative and binding upon Church members.

The main part of this booklet is based upon a radio lecture given in Colombo, Śri Lanka, in 1933 by Nyanatiloka Mahāthera ( 1878 — 1957 ) entitled “ The Essence of Buddhism ” and published by the Buddhist Publication Society as part of Fundamentals of Buddhism: Four Lectures ( Wheel Publication no.

These themes are the basis for his Gifford Lectures delivered in 1952 and 1954 at the University of Glasgow, and entitled The Self as Agent and Persons in Relation respectively.

In June 2011, the BBC announced Eliza Manningham-Buller would present the 2011 Reith Lectures, alongside the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a series entitled Securing Freedom.

Caird delivered the 1892-1896 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity.

Bradley delivered the 1907 – 1908 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled " Ideals of Religion.

In 2008, he gave the John Locke Lectures, entitled " Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability.

In 1908, the core of this work was presented as the Croonian Lectures to the Royal College of Physicians, entitled Inborn Errors of Metabolism and published the following year.

A hand-written list of 24 of her lectures entitled " Lectures of the One and Only Woman Rabbi, Regina Jonas ," still exists and can still be found in the archives of Theresienstadt.

* Lectures by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill entitled International Migration Law-A General Introduction and Forced Migration-The Evolution of International Refugee Law and Organization in the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

Warnock delivered the Gifford Lectures, entitled " Imagination and Understanding ," at University of Glasgow in 1992.

He gave the 1997 – 98 Glasgow Gifford Lectures entitled Gods, Genes, Greens and Everything.

In 1978 he delivered the William Doty Lectures in Fine Arts at University of Texas in Austin entitled ' The Colour of Colour ' coinciding with a presentation of over 30 large canvases from the previous twelve years This was the culmination of the ‘ wobbly hard-edge ’ period, works filled with intense fields of unadulterated colour and spatial brushwork “ with an immediacy of sensational impact ... only possible in the actual relation of spectator to painting ”.

His 1969 BBC Reith Lectures ( entitled Wilderness and Plenty ) were an important contribution to the growing debate on man's responsibility for his natural environment.

His Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1993, entitled The Cosmic Onion, gave their name to one of his books.

Clark has delivered a number of prestigious lectures, including the 1981-1982 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, entitled " From Athens to Jerusalem ," the Stanton Lectures in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge ( 1987 – 1989 ), and the Wilde Lectures at the University of Oxford ( 1990 ).