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A Trojan Horse across the Channel: On the circulation of Vincenzio Viviani’s divinatio through his correspondence with Robert Southwell

Self-proclaimed Galileo’s last disciple, Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703) strove all his life to become a renowned mathematician. Extolling the supposed purity of Euclid’s geometry, he sought to recover the lost knowledge of the Ancients, and fashioned himsel ...

2021

Graphical details: the secret life of Christopher Wren's drawing of the weather clock

Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Historians have unanimously credited Christopher Wren with having constructed a weather clock (a self-registering instrument) in the early 1660s. This conclusion was based on the account of the French diplomat Balthasar de Monconys, which included a sketch ...

2021

Xile Hu

Xile Hu was interviewed in celebration of his Royal Society of Chemistry Homogeneous Catalysis Award. ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Within One’s Grasp: Constructing the Weather-Clock

Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Christopher Wren imagined and designed a weather-clock which could register the traces of multiple meteorological instruments (barometer, thermometer, rain gauge, hygrometer etc.). Wren presented his machine on different occasions, under different forms: v ...

2019

Présentation de Fiona Pià au Congrès "SmartSuisse", Bâle

Fiona Pia

Table ronde organisée par la SIA sur le thème: "Neue Alpenstädte - Stadtentwicklung auf unseren Höhen". Modération: Hans-Georg Bächtold, Geschäftsführer SIA En présence de : Dr. Daniel Müller-Jentsch, Senior Fellow, Avenir Suisse Damian Jerjen, Kantonsplan ...

2018

Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: the current state of the field and future research directions

Wulfram Gerstner, Lu Chen, Taro Toyoizumi

We summarize here the results presented and subsequent discussion from the meeting on Integrating Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity at the Royal Society in April 2016. We first outline the major themes and results presented at the meeting. We next provide ...

Royal Soc2017

Elastocapillary coalescence of plates and pillars

Tobias Schneider, Ji Hyun Kim

When a fluid-immersed array of supported plates or pillars is dried, evaporation leads to the formation of menisci on the tips of the plates or pillars that bring them together to form complex patterns. Building on prior experimental observations, we use a ...

2015

Two-electron versus one-electron reduction of chalcogens by uranium(III): synthesis of a terminal U(V) persulfide complex

Marinella Mazzanti

The reaction of the tripodal tris-amido U(iii) complex [U(SiMe 2NPh)3-tacn] (tacn = 1,4,7-triazacyclononane), 1, with 0.0625 and 0.25 equiv. of elemental sulfur affords the sulfide-bridged U(iv) complex [U((SiMe2NPh)3-tacn)2(μ-S)], 2, and the terminal pers ...

2014

The microfluidic post-array device: high throughput production of single emulsion drops

Esther Amstad

We present a microfluidic device that enables high throughput production of relatively monodisperse emulsion drops while controlling the average size. The device consists of a two-dimensional array of regularly-spaced posts. Large drops of a highly polydis ...

2014

Optimizing the relaxivity of Gd(III) complexes appended to InP/ZnS quantum dots by linker tuning

Marinella Mazzanti

Three bimodal MRI/optical nanosized contrast agents with high per-nanoparticle relaxivity (up to 2523 mM-1 s-1 at 35 MHz and 932 mM-1 s-1 at 200 MHz) have been prepared connecting up to 115 tris-aqua GdIII complexes to fluorescent non-toxic InP/ZnS quantum ...

2013

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