Writings of Hugh Swinton Legare ... consisting of a diary of Brussels, and journal of the Rhine; extracts from his private and diplomatic correspodence, orations and speeches, and contributions to the New-York and Southern reviews.... by Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 1797-1843

Progress in the humanities? : comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney Patrick

Table of Contents: “…-- Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics -- Development and progress in Greek sculpture -- Greek literature, more serious than history -- Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus -- Progress in Greek mathematics: incommensurability -- Seven of nine and five of nine -- Science fiction and psychiatry -- Mapping the boundaries of human being -- Diagnosing the borderline personality: five of nine symptoms -- On the pleasures of science fiction: jumping into the abyss -- Progress as development of the self: from Greek cult to Greek theater -- Canals on mars: exploring imaginary worlds -- Virtual civilizations: Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals -- Pathological science: the limits of vision -- ESP at Duke: the story of J. Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? …”
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Scholars, Travellers and Trade : the Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840. by Halbertsma, R. B.

Table of Contents: “…-- THE BORGIA INHERITANCE -- 7 STATION LIVORNO: The Etruscan and Egyptian collections -- ETRUSCAN URNS FROM VOLTERRA -- SUPPOSED FORGERIES: 'RESIGNATION, PATIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY' -- THE MUSEO CORAZZI IN CORTONA -- EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ON THE EUROPEAN MARKET -- 'EGYPT ALONG THE RHINE': THE CIMBA AND D'ANASTASY COLLECTIONS -- REUVENS' FIRST VALUATION: 'BELOW THE SALT COLLECTION' -- REUVENS' SECOND VALUATION: 'THE COLLECTION HAS RISEN IN VALUE' -- REUVENS' THIRD VALUATION: 'THE PRICE HALF-WAY BETWEEN SALT AND DROVETTI' -- THE BREAKTHROUGH -- EPILOGUE: THREE GIFTS AND AN UNRELIABLE MERCHANT -- END OF THE EXPEDITION: THE NANITIEPOLOAND PACILEO COLLECTIONS -- 8 FORUM HADRIANI: Digging behind the dunes -- THE SEARCH FOR FORUM HADRIANI -- START OF THE EXCAVATIONS: 'SHERDS OF TILES, POTS AND URNS' -- INVENTING ARCHAEOLOGY: FIELDWORK AND DOCUMENTATION -- END OF THE EXCAVATIONS: 'THE OLD STATE OF STAGNATION' -- SMALLER EXCAVATIONS AND SURVEYS -- 9 THE IDEAL MUSEUM: Dreams and reality -- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CABINET -- TOWARDS A NATIONAL MUSEUM: 'A PONDEROUS AND STATELY BUILDING' -- STATE OF AFFAIRS: 'GENERAL AND LOUD COMPLAINTS' -- THE IDEAL SURROUNDINGS: 'THE SPLENDOUR OF A CAPITAL'? …”
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