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The publication in 1957 and 1961 of two volumes of Coleridge's Notebooks has opened to all those who are interested in this writer as man, poet, critic, philosopher and psychologist opportunities to study him and his work anew. [...]

The purpose of the study was to compile an in-depth biography of Jonathan Jennings, the first state governor of Indiana. It was the first such research to originate on the central political figure in the development of Indiana statehood.All published or unpublished manuscript collections pertaining to Indiana politicians contemporary with Jennings were researched. Every Indiana state or territorial newspaper collection available during Jennings's years in government service were searched for references pertaining to his career. All federal, territorial or state public documents that could possibly refer to his career were studied. Fifty-three secondary books, fourteen journal articles, and seven published sets of reminiscences were utilized to complete this project.Findings1. Jonathan Jennings was a superb political organizer possessing a keen sense of timing and an ability to emotionalize political issues, to create personality clashes.2. Though generally Jeffersonian in outlook, Jennings was not an ideologue. He was a pragmatic politician, able to adapt his philosophy to the contingencies of the issues he supported.3. As a member of Congress, Jennings consistently voted from a provincial point of view.National issues, such as those which led the United States to the War of 1812, were viewed by Jennings as irritants which prevented Congress from legislating for the local needs of his constituents.4. Jennings's two terms as governor were his most valuable years of public service. His persistent support of state-financed public education, as well as aid to the elderly and infirm, indicated a sense of government responsibility uncommon for political leaders his day.5. Jennings was a frustrated, driven man who turned to alcohol rather than attempt to resolve deeply embedded feelings of inadequacy, a character flaw instrumental in his demise.Conclusions1. Rather than a prolific legislator in Congress, Jonathan Jennings was better characterized as an agitator, symbolizing the anti-Harrison, anti-slavery forces.2. Jennings's concern for local development enhanced his effectiveness as state governor. 3. Jennings's weakness for alcohol combined with the changing political structure produced by the emerging Jacksonian forces, brought to conclusion a political career which might otherwise have contributed for several years beyond its time. / Department of History

This thesis attempts to determine whether the Russian chemist, Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, was open to Western ideas and capital in the Russian petroleum industry. It does so by examining five of his trips to study this business, as either an advisor to the Russian government or a private consultant. These voyages took place between 1863 and 1886 and saw Mendeleev in France, the United States and the Caucasus. Each trip produced a combination of personal letters, diaries, and published articles. This work employs a mixture of published and unpublished archival documents. In the process, much is revealed about the history of this industry, its industrialists, as well as Mendeleev's personality. / The introduction outlines the general questions that this thesis aims to answer. Chapter one summarizes Mendeleev's life until he first worked in the oil industry in 1863. These formative years were crucial for Mendeleev. His youthful travels around Europe, studies in Germany and personal inclinations, made him a multi-lingual and cosmopolitan individual. The remaining five chapters examine Mendeleev's trips to study the industry. An epilogue briefly recounts his final years. / The conclusion of this thesis is that contrary to Soviet scholarship, Mendeleev was open to the West. His only requirement was that Western ideas and capital assist in the growth of the Russian oil industry and result in abundant and cheap kerosene for the Russian population.

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The geologist James Hector (1834-1907) was, by any measure, the most important and influential scientist in nineteenth century New Zealand. In the mid 1860s, he became the first Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey and the Colonial Museum. Thereafter he ran the Colonial Laboratory, set up the Meteorological Service and the Wellington Botanical Gardens and was responsible for the establishment of the New Zealand Institute, acting as its manager and editor of its Transactions and Proceedings for more than 30 years. This work explores the formative years of his career from his early years in Scotland, his experiences with the Palliser Expedition in Canada, and pivotally, his first four years in New Zealand as the first Otago Provincial Geologist. By the time of James Hector�s entry as a medical student to Edinburgh University in 1852, he had already developed a strong interest in natural history, particularly geology. Although he graduated M.D. from Edinburgh in 1856, that course of study served only as a means of access to the natural sciences. Hector�s interest and training in geology developed at an opportune time, when there was increasing demand for geologists to explore the expanding industrial British Empire for coal and other mineral raw materials. Hector�s reputation in geology in Edinburgh brought him to the attention of that most influential British geologist, Sir Roderick Murchison, whose recommendation led to his appointment to the British North American Expedition of 1857 (the Palliser Expedition). Hector was acknowledged, on several counts, as a major contributor to the success of the expedition. When the Otago Provincial Government in New Zealand requested advice on the appointment of a geologist for the province, Murchison predictably proposed Hector. Having reviewed and assessed his work in North America, this thesis deals with the arrival of Hector as Otago Provincial Geologist in Dunedin during the prosperity of the gold rush of the early 1860s. For the first nine months he explored the central and eastern areas of the Province (Chapter 2) and the following year led the exploration of the West Coast, where there was potential for coal, gold and timber-and reputedly copper-and the prospect of providing a commercial route to Melbourne. The two month long expedition up the Matukituki Valley preceded the exploration by ship of the West Coast of the South Island as far north as Martins Bay. The latter became a major triumph on the strength of the contemporary perception of a route between Queenstown and Martins Bay potentially opening up a direct contact between Dunedin and Melbourne. From mid-1864, Hector�s life was governed by the organisation of the International Exhibition, which opened in Dunedin in January 1865. In that context, he travelled to seek support and participation from the other provinces of New Zealand, a political and administrative commission which he combined with geological exploration. After the closure of the successful Exhibition in May 1865 and subsequent to the conclusion of his appointment on 1st April 1865, Hector left Otago in August to take up the newly created post of Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey in Wellington. The parting was not administratively smooth and relations between Hector and the Otago Provincial Government were strained by the lack of a final, definitive, report on the Geology of Otago. An overview of Hector�s geology, specifically his interest in coal and gold, and the evolution of his views on the vexed question of the role of glaciers as geomorphologic agents is provided. James Hector was a man of versatile ability and strong leadership. His scientific skills as a field geologist and the administrative abilities, developed during his explorations in British North America and southern New Zealand, led ultimately to his long and successful career as New Zealand�s chief scientist at a formative time in its history.

Thesis (doctoral)--Tilburg, 1989. / Summary in French. Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xxxvi) and indexes.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Departamento de Matemática, 2015. / Submitted by Raquel Viana (raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2015-10-27T18:39:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_RicardoEdmundoZamoraVargas.pdf: 5385234 bytes, checksum: b50a9906f3a7644b3dcaca8825522885 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marília Freitas(marilia@bce.unb.br) on 2015-12-20T16:06:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_RicardoEdmundoZamoraVargas.pdf: 5385234 bytes, checksum: b50a9906f3a7644b3dcaca8825522885 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-20T16:06:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_RicardoEdmundoZamoraVargas.pdf: 5385234 bytes, checksum: b50a9906f3a7644b3dcaca8825522885 (MD5) / Neste trabalho, apresentamos um estudo da geometria de Laguerre no espaço Euclidiano, apresentando a geometria de esferas e planos orientados, bem como das transformações de Laguerre. Através deste estudo, apresentamos as superfícies e a métrica de Laguerre, cujo elemento de volume é conhecido como funcional de Laguerre. Em seguida, estudamos superfícies mínimas generalizadas de Laguerre, isto é, superfícies que são pontos críticos deste funcional e que admitem pontos isolados com curvatura zero. Analogamente à representação de Weierstrass para superfícies mínimas apresentamos uma representação do tipo Weierstrass que permite descrever globalmente as superfícies mínimas de Laguerre generalizadas usando três dados: uma função meromorfa, uma forma holomorfa e uma função real harmônica. Tal representação é chamada de representação conforme e coincide com a representação de Weierstrass quando a função real harmônica é nula. / In this work, we present a study of Laguerre geometry in Euclidean space, presenting the geometry of oriented spheres and planes, as well as the Laguerre transformations. Through this study, we present the Laguerre surfaces and the Laguerre metric , whose volume element is known as the Laguerre functional. Then, study generalized Laguerre minimal surfaces, i.e. surfaces which are critical points of this functional and which allow isolated points with curvature zero. Similarly to the Weierstrass representation for minimal surfaces, we present a kind of Weierstrass representation that allows describe globally generalized Laguerre minimal surfaces using three data: a meromorphic function, a holomorphic form and a real harmonic function. This representation is called conformal representation and coincides with the Weierstrass representation when the harmonic real function is zero.

Dissertação (mestrado)-Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Matemática, 2011. / Submitted by Gabriela Ribeiro (gaby_ribeiro87@hotmail.com) on 2011-06-27T17:35:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_RafaelaFernandesdoPrado.pdf: 1767208 bytes, checksum: 89b10fa8ca65635e8434f73793bd4a31 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Ferreira de Souza(jaquefs.braz@gmail.com) on 2011-07-13T21:04:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_RafaelaFernandesdoPrado.pdf: 1767208 bytes, checksum: 89b10fa8ca65635e8434f73793bd4a31 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-07-13T21:04:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_RafaelaFernandesdoPrado.pdf: 1767208 bytes, checksum: 89b10fa8ca65635e8434f73793bd4a31 (MD5) / Neste trabalho, mostraremos uma generalizaçãao para um Teorema de Ribaucour que diz que a envoltória dos planos médios de uma congruência de retas isotrópica é uma superfície mínima. Para isso, usaremos coordenadas locais introduzidas em um trabalho de Guilfoyle e Klingenberg, obtendo condições para que tais coordenadas caracterizem congruências de retas isotrópicas e generalizando essas condições. Obteremos também invariantes naturais induzidos pela métrica de K ahler no espaço das retas orientadas em R3. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In this work we'll generalize a Theorem of Ribaucour, wich says that the middle envelope of an isotropic congruence is a minimal surface. In order to do that, we'll use local coordinates _rst introduced by Guilfoyle and Klingenber, obtaining conditions so that such coordinates caracterize isotropic congruences and then generalizing these conditions. We'll also obtain natural invariants induced by a K ahler metric on the space of oriented lines in R3.

This paper evaluates the critical response to Samuel Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." In the Introduction I outline my critical approach, which attempts to see the relationships between parts of the poem, sources outside the poem and poet himself. In analyzing Coleridge's esthetics, I have come to the conclusion that the poem was the first of a new type of Romantic poem. The central structural principle of this type of poem is the use of illusion and the fragmented form, or the illusion of the fragmented form. Poems that fall within this esthetic frequently use the "vision within a dream" motif as a metaphor for this illusion.