The Snellius Expedition 1929-1930 to the East Indies collected four barracudinas from near the Celebes coast. These specimens were identified by Koumans (1953) as Lestidium nudum Gilbert, previously known for certain only from the unique type from the Hawaiian Islands. Through the cooperation of the officials of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijkc Historic at Leiden—Dr. II. Boschma, former Direct…
The convenience of the bathythermograph for making rapid detailed surveys of the thermal structure in vertical sections of the ocean is leading to an accumulation of data on ocean temperatures far exceeding that on the corresponding salinities. Since dynamic height anomaly computations require a knowledge of both the temperature and the salinity as functions of depth, it is the purpose of …
HISTORY," said Charles Seignobos, "is not a science it is a method (procédé de connaissance) By that he meant that historical method may be applied to the subject matter of any discipline as a means of extracting fact. That is true, but it is no less true that historical method has a special significance for the historian. The historian (or other scholar acting in loco historici) applies the…
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Validasi Anc 16/05/25rnTwo distinguished historians, one an advocate of the new scientific or cliometric" history and the other a traditional historian, debate the validity of their respective methods of studying the past. While they differ sharply on many issues, in the end they agree that history is a vigorous, evolving discipline able to absorb the best of both scientific and humanistic thou…
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History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with sur- prise and shock. When we think back over the past few years, what strikes us is the suddenness of its blows, the unannounced descent of its thunderbolts. Wars, revolutions, uprisings have burst upon us with terrible rapidity. Advances in science and technology have rewritten the very terms and conditions of the human contract with …