5.0753 Misc. Queries (8/133)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:24:09 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0753. Monday, 9 Mar 1992.


(1) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 9:24:19 +0200 (EET) (6 lines)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: RE: 'Mis-'

(2) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 09:34:23 EST (19 lines)
From: Anne Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu>
Subject: Subgenre query

(3) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 18:16 EST (9 lines)
From: Lawrence Stepelevich <STEPELEVI@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: Query

(4) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 13:26:47 EST (11 lines)
From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" <CONSTAN@YALEVM>
Subject: Query: Books v. Computers

(5) Date: Fri, 6 MAR 92 11:44:28 GMT (19 lines)
From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk
Subject: Help re: History of Education in Saudi Arabia

(6) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 14:57:17 PST (32 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Medieval Latin medical abbreviations

(7) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 14:15 CST (16 lines)
From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Subject: quotation/source

(8) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1992 13:13 CST (21 lines)
From: "Richard L. Warms" <RW04@SWTEXAS>
Subject: Students and reading

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 9:24:19 +0200 (EET)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: RE: 5.0746 Rs: Revival; Golems; Odyssey; Concording; Mis- (5/91)

Question from one who has no Greek: if "mysandrist" means "mouse-man",
what is a suitable term for "Bat-man"?
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 09:34:23 EST
From: Anne Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu>
Subject: Subgenre query

Is there a name for a particular subgenre of novel in which the author
pretends to be editing the writings (usually an autobiography) of
another? The best known example is probably _Gulliver's Travels_.
Usually the purported "editor" has an introduction wherein he
describes what changes he was forced to make, often noting that the
author misses the true point of his subject, etc. Often there is a
conclusion, and frequently notes.
As a sometime editor myself, I find this fascinating. No more
troublesome authors!

Anne Falke Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu>
Department of Humanities
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 18:16 EST
From: Lawrence Stepelevich <STEPELEVI@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: Query

Hegel, in the Preface to his PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT, makes reference
to "the Owl of Minerva." Could anyone tell me the basis for
this reference? I've had some difficulty tracking it down.
-- Larry Stepelevich, Philosophy, Villanova University
<Stepelevi@vuvaxcom.bitnet>
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 13:26:47 EST
From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" <CONSTAN@YALEVM>
Subject: Query: Books v. Computers

Can anyone provide citations for studies which claim that scholars or students
ultimately prefer to read works in printed form rather than on a computer
screen? I have often heard this stated anecdotally, but need to see something
"in print."

Paul J. Constantine
Yale University Library
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Date: Fri, 6 MAR 92 11:44:28 GMT
From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk
Subject: Help re: History of Education in Saudi Arabia

While extolling the virtues of e-mail networks as a way of finding out
information to a group of OU staff, one of them came up with a request:

Could I find out anything about the History of Education in Saudi Arabia?

I have taken the 'anything' to include:
people or addresses of people or institutions that might know or
references to published material.

If any readers of HUMANIST could supply information could they please e-mail me?
Thanking you in anticipation.
Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World)
Academic Computing Service, | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET)
The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744
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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 14:57:17 PST
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Medieval Latin medical abbreviations

In a Spanish translation of John of Ketham's
Fasciculus medicinae a number of recipes are
left in Latin, e.g.:

Recipe puluueris trisandali: pulueris dyadraganti
frigidi. pulueris diapapaueris an~. dragmas duas:
conserue buglosse: conserue ros~. an~. vnciam semis ...

Recipe succi buglosse / succi pomorum rubeorum siue
dulcium purgatorum. an~. quantu<m> sufficit. succi
acetose libr~. s~. aque rosate quantum sufficit: succi
citri/ vel loco eius succi limonis. o~z. j. et s~. florum
nenufaris: omnium sandalorum: camphore an~. z. s~. aceti
albi ...

On the basis of Cappelli I am fairly sure that the "z." stands
for 'dracma' and that what I have transcribed as "s~" (actually
a long s with a cross loop, which normally would be transcribed
s<er>) is 'half', i.e., semis. I think that "o~p" (the standard
abbreviation for op<ortet>) is "unciam" but am not sure.

I am totally stumped by "ros~" and "an~."

Can any historians of medicine help?

Many thanks,

Charles Faulhaber
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 14:15 CST
From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU>
Subject: quotation/source

One of my colleagues has tried, unsuccessfully, to find a source for
the following quote:

"Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance"

Can any one on HUMNANIST be of help?

Thanks,

John D. Jones
Philosophy Department
Marquette University
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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1992 13:13 CST
From: "Richard L. Warms" <RW04@SWTEXAS>
Subject: Students and reading

A friend of mine who is not a member of this discussion has asked me to forward
the following request for information. He is a PH.D. student in linguistics,
and, as I understand it, is doing research for a journal article on the reading
abilities of college students.


>Question: "HOW WOULD YOU EVALUATE YOUR STUDENTS' HANDLING OF THE
>READINGS WHICH YOU ASSIGN THEM?" Please feel to comment freely, but
>mention the type of assignments (text books, articles, etc.) and the classes
>you teach. Post the answer to Michael Newman MNEHC@CUNYVM or
>MNEHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>Thanks

Thanks very much for your help in this matter.

Richard Warms
RW04@SWTSU