Life Sciences
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Political Science
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John Addington Symonds - Problem in Modern Ethics
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.” John Addington Symonds struck many an heroic note in this courageous...
4 hours 50 minutes
Life Sciences
751
Gregor Mendel - Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper «Experiments in Plant Hybridization» presents his results of studying genetic traits in pea plants. It is the ground...
2 hours 13 minutes
Poetry
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Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura ) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Epicurean philosophy to the Roman audience. Among digressions about the...
9 hours 20 minutes