A Shorter History of Rome. M. Cary , John Wilson

1965 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Stewart Irvin Oost
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
John Wilson

‘The malignity of Reviewers’: Coleridge, Wilson, and Blackwood's

Romanticism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Charles Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
John Wilson

The first number of the refashioned Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine opens with a review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria which is still regarded as one of the most virulent ‘attacks’ in the history of periodical reviewing. What could have motivated John Wilson to disparage Coleridge so personally and at such length? One factor may have been the treatment of Francis Jeffrey in the Biographia. Jeffrey's presence in both the Biographia and Wilson's review reveals a complicated debate regarding reviewing practices in the 1810s at the same time as it illuminates the boisterous, unpredictable tone of the new magazine.

scholarly journals All Plain Sailing

1956 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Mathematical School ◽  
Initial Decision ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Cylindrical Projection ◽  
Extended Plane ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exact Shape ◽  
John Wilson

‘The Earth is an ellipsoid’, says the Admiralty Navigation Manual firmly, although in a later volume the expression is softened to ‘approximately ellipsoidal’, For in fact, as was implied by Captain Topley, the exact shape of the Earth is not yet known. Nevertheless, for nautical purposes it appears sound teaching practice to consider it a perfect sphere and then explain the departures of the nautical mile or minute of arc from its mean value. Nor need one quarrel with the Manual's statement that ‘to regard certain small triangles as plane is not to disregard the initial decision to regard the Earth as a sphere’. But the writer next indulges in an historical aside which cannot be allowed to pass. ‘This assumption (he says) gives rise to the expression plane sailing, which is popularly referred to as if plane were spelt plain and the sailing were free from difficulty’. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ‘Plain sailing’ was the original term, and it was only sophisticated into ‘plane sailing’ during the eighteenth century by teachers of navigation among whom John Robertson was the chief. Robertson was master at the Mathematical School of Christ's Hospital towards the middle of the century, and afterwards taught at the Portsmouth Naval College, finally becoming Librarian to the Royal Society. His Elements of Navigation was considered authoritative and ran into many editions, a later master at the Hospital, James Wilson, prefixing to it a Dissertation on the history of navigation which was also accepted as definitive. It is in this volume that we read: ‘Plane sailing is the art of navigating a ship upon principles deduced from the notion of the Earth's being an extended Plane. On this supposition the meridians are esteemed as parallel right lines…’, and the author goes on to what he terms the Plane Chart, with its equally-spaced meridians. There is little doubt that his passage is the source of the theory taught to modern sailors that ‘Plain Chart’ is a corruption of ‘Plane Chart’, while the latter was drawn by people who believed the Earth was flat. Actually we have only to go back a generation from Robertson to find an almost identical description of the chart—actually an equal-spaced conventional cylindrical projection of the sphere—but with the addition of the words ‘The rectangle formed by these meridians and parallels they (i.e. mariners) call the Plain Chart’. This was said in 1714 by John Wilson, a teacher in Edinburgh.

Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich: Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten „Steindorff-Liste“

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schneider
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Second World War ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
John Wilson ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

Abstract The history of Egyptology in the Third Reich has never been the subject of academic analysis. This article gives a detailed overview of the biographies of Egyptologists in National Socialist Germany and their later careers after the Second World War. It scrutinizes their attitude towards the ideology of the Third Reich and their involvement in the political and intellectual Gleichschaltung of German Higher Education, as well as the impact National Socialism had on the discourse within the discipline. A letter written in 1946 by Georg Steindorff, one of the emigrated German Egyptologists, to John Wilson, Professor at the Oriental Institute Chicago, which incriminated former colleagues and exonerated others, is first published here and used as a framework for the debate.

scholarly journals Contingencies of Place and Time: The Significance of Wilson v. Marion and Oklahoma Territory in the History of School Segregation

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-419
Author(s):  
Sara Doolittle
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
School System ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Active Resistance ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Legal Challenge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oklahoma Territory ◽  
John Wilson

Between 1889 and 1890, John Wilson and his family were among nearly three thousand African American settlers to enter Oklahoma Territory, where Wilson's two daughters first attended an integrated school. The Wilson family was undoubtedly drawn by the educational and economic opportunities that were present in the fluid space—opportunities that did not always exist elsewhere in the country. Yet the territorial legislature sought to narrow those opportunities, which it did by segregating the schools. Wilson and his family did not accept this limitation and fought back through both the courts and active resistance. This article examines that first legal challenge to the segregated school system: Territory ex rel. Wilson v. Marion et al. This case informs not only our understanding of the durability of racism in an actively contested western space but also the forms of African American resistance to the reactivation of racial hierarchy.

‘A score of grave gentlemen’

The Athenaeum ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Michael Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Space ◽  
Club Membership ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Wilson ◽  
Poor Ventilation

This chapter explores the experience of club membership at the Athenæum. In 1835, Thomas Walker described Decimus Burton's clubhouse as a 'sort of palace', kept 'with the same exactness and comfort as a private dwelling', in which 'every member is a master, without any of the trouble of a master'. Individual breaches of the club's rules tended to be treated leniently by the General Committee. By the time that Walker wrote his rhapsodic description of Burton's 'palace' in 1835, two problems were posing a threat to the 'exactness and comfort' that he celebrated: shortage of shelf space for books and poor ventilation. John Wilson Croker's death in 1857 marked the end of the beginning in the history of the Athenæum. A tradition of 'high thinking and plain living' had been firmly established in a club which prided itself on keeping its entrance fees and annual subscriptions well below the average in Clubland. As Walker commented, the 'mode of living' at the Athenæum was 'simple, rather than luxurious'.

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