A Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3752087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 8 Wootton Way, Cambridge CB3 9LX, UK |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5016-7748 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1904 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Verbal autopsy can consistently measure Aids mortality: A validation study in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy is currently the only option for obtaining cause of death information in most populations with a widespread HIV/AIDS epidemic. METHODS: With the use of a data-driven algorithm, a set of criteria for classifying AIDS mortality was trained. Data from two longitudinal community studies in Tanzania and Zimbabwe were used, both of which have collected information on the HIV status of the population over a prolonged period an…
A Roman correspondence: George Ent and Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1637–55
George Ent (FRS 1663), a distinguish physician, was in Rome in 1636, visited the notable collector Cassiano dal Pozzo and saw his Paper Museum. After he returned to London he carried on a correspondence with Cassiano in letters of more than ordinary interest. Cassiano had sent Ent specimens of fossil wood and a table made from fossil wood. They had come from the estates at Acquasparta belonging to Prince Federico Cesi, the founder of the Accademi…
Rome and the Royal Society, 1660-1740
Most Fellows of The Royal Society in the late seventeenth century knew Rome through their classical education and would have been attracted to visit it for the remains of antiquity and for the new churches and palaces of the papal city. John Evelyn, in Rome 16 years before the foundation of the Society, John Ray, Edmond Halley and Robert Nelson, and Bishop Burnet and G.W. Leibniz, also met people who had links to the Accademia dei Lincei of Princ…
Shipborne radar in World War II: Some recollections
This note contains some observations on the use of radar at sea in World War II based on experience in developing radar for the Royal Navy and on some reminiscences of a minor part in preparation for D–Day 60 years ago
Report. Robert Hooke at Christ Church, Oxford
This year is not only the 300th since the death of Robert Hooke, it is also 350 years since he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford. Hence on 2 October a symposium in honour of their distinguished son was held under the auspices of Christ Church, at which some of the recent studies of his life and achievements were noted. Many of the speakers held posts that Hooke had held, such as the Gresham Professor of Geometry and Secretary of The Royal Soc…
Report. Migrants to The Royal Society, 1930–1940
It is well known that after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, many scholars, musicians, artists and writers were expelled or found it impossible to continue to work in Gemany. Scientists also, especially those of Jewish descent or connections, similarly left Germany and countries that came under the influence of Germany. Many of those artists, scholars and scientists who came to Britain stimulated the efflorescence of intellectual, artisti…
Continental connections
Introduction to the September 2003 issue of Notes and Records
And Other Anniversaries
Introduction to the January 2003 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Vincenzo Viviani (1622 to 1703) by Pietro Dandini. Viviani is one of four Fellows whose death is being commemorated in 2003
Two anniversaries
Introduction to the May 2003 issue of Notes and Records
Across the Alps: London and Bologna in the eighteenth century
Introduction to the January 2002 issue of Notes and Records . In the first century of the Society's existence a number of important developments were taking place in Italy, especially in astronomy and biology. The portrait shows Erasmus Darwin. (Copyright © The Royal Society)
Max Born
Max Born was one of the small group of theoretical physicists who established the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Born himself recognized that Heisenberg had the crucial idea that the variables in quantum mechanics should be observable quantities, not classical coordinates that were not observable. Heisenberg proposed to take instead quantities that were related to the transitions between states of an atom. The photograp…
A Roman tercentenary
Three hundred years ago, on 6 October 1702, the Pope, Clement XI, inaugurated a new meridian line in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, a line that had been set out by a Fellow of The Royal Society, Francesco Bianchini. In my foreword to our January issue I wrote something of his career at the papal court in Rome, of his activities as an astronomer and his membership of the Accademia Fisicamathematica associated with Queen Christina …
Royal weather
Fellows of The Royal Society have been interested in weather from the earliest years of the Society. When John Locke was in Montpellier in 1676 he made many observations of the weather, which are in his unpublished Journal . Edmond Halley collected observations of winds worldwide from sea captains and published a chart of the trade winds in Philosophical Transactions . Robert Hooke devised a barometer for use at sea. Present Fellows are deeply in…
Varieties of science
Introduction to the September 2001 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Robert Boyle by John Riley. (Royal Society portrait.)
Edmond Halley and the magnetic field of the earth
Edmond Halley was interested in magnetism from his schooldays to the end of his life, and of all his notable contributions to natural knowledge, his survey of the magnetic field over the Atlantic Ocean surely stands out both for its achievement at the time and for its lasting value. His identification of the westerly drift and his speculations about its origin, his description of aurorae and his connection of them with the geomagnetic field, all …
Plants illustrating exotic collections
The study of plants was nothing new when The Royal Society was founded, but some of our earliest Fellows changed it drastically. Perhaps they did not do this as suddenly or as completely as did Newton for dynamics, but in the long run they had at least as great an influence on views of the natural world and how to study it. Did God create all the great variety of plants no one (in Europe) had ever seen before, and if so why? Plants brought back b…
Time and The Royal Society
Fellows of The Royal Society have been concerned with the definition and measurement of time from the first days of the Society. John Flamsteed, F.R.S., ‘Royal Astronomer’, showed that the rotation of the Earth was isochronous and that the length of the solar day varied with the season because the path of the Earth about the Sun was an ellipse inclined to the Equator of the Earth. In the 20th century, D.W. Dye, F.R.S., made quartz oscillators tha…
The new millennium
A journal of the history of science seems almost obliged to mark the transition from one millennium to another, artificial though that may be. It seems even more contrived for a journal that is about science related to The Royal Society, for our history spans not even a millennium but almost exactly one–third of that period. Yet the history of science in those years has much to teach us today about the practice and use of science and to help in p…
Centenary of the NPL
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attained its centenary in 2000 and that was the occasion for a meeting in The Royal Society on 7 November 2000. The centenary is part of the record of The Royal Society because Fellows of the Society actively promoted the formation of the laboratory, and the programme of the Laboratory in its early years was guided by a committee of the Society. In addition, some of the researches of the Laboratory were supp…
Worldwide connections
Introduction to the May 2001 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Gabrielle–Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, who translated Newton's Principia into French together with a commentary (see pp. 227–245, this issue). (Reproduced from a portrait in the Château de Breteuil, Val de Chevreuse, by permission of M. le Marquis de Breteuil.)
Essay Review: The gatekeeper of the modern world
Niccolo Guicciardini, Reading the Principia; The debate on Newton's mathematical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736 . Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 285, £50.00. ISBN 0–521–64066–0
In this issue
We hope our readers appreciate our new pictorial cover, which will, from year to year, display different aspects of the history of the Society. With whom else could we start but Newton? Yet he is not the only Fellow of his day who set natural philosophy on the course we still follow. In this issue, we recall the influence of John Ray on the classification of plants, insects, birds and fishes
In this issue
There was in the January issue a report of a meeting held last year to celebrate the life and achievements of John Ray, F.R.S., together with an article on one of his successors as a clerical naturalist. Three further papers from the meeting appear in this number, two on Ray's religious and philosophical positions, and one on the famous Historia Piscium ( History of fishes )
Foreign travels
Entering a new millennium the state of the public understanding of science is, and will continue to be, a key to the human condition; stories of the past may help to deepen it. In that hope we intend to mark the end of the present millennium in September 2000 or the start of the new one in January 2001 by an issue with millennial contributions, the choice of date depending on how rapidly potential authors respond to these hints
Our foreign correspondence
Introduction to the May 1999 issue of Notes and Records
US adults' fruit and vegetable intakes, 1989 to 1991: A revised baseline for the Healthy People 2000 objective
OBJECTIVES. This study provides revised baseline data for the Healthy People 2000 objective related to fruit and vegetable intakes, accounting for fruits and vegetable intakes, accounting for fruits and vegetables from all sources and measuring servings in a manner consistent with current dietary guidance. METHODS. Dietary data from 8181 adults in the US Department of Agriculture's 1989-1991 Continuing Surveys of Food Intakes by Individuals were …
A Roman correspondence: George Ent and Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1637–55
George Ent (FRS 1663), a distinguish physician, was in Rome in 1636, visited the notable collector Cassiano dal Pozzo and saw his Paper Museum. After he returned to London he carried on a correspondence with Cassiano in letters of more than ordinary interest. Cassiano had sent Ent specimens of fossil wood and a table made from fossil wood. They had come from the estates at Acquasparta belonging to Prince Federico Cesi, the founder of the Accademi…
The Oxford Gesenius
"Kennedy's "Note-Line in the Hebrew Scriptures
"Davidson's "Old Testament Prophecy
"Bacher's "Aus dem Worterbuche Tanchum Jeruschalmi's
Tendencies of Old Testament Study
The Cambridge Ancient History Vol 6: Macedon
US adults' fruit and vegetable intakes, 1989 to 1991: A revised baseline for the Healthy People 2000 objective
OBJECTIVES. This study provides revised baseline data for the Healthy People 2000 objective related to fruit and vegetable intakes, accounting for fruits and vegetable intakes, accounting for fruits and vegetables from all sources and measuring servings in a manner consistent with current dietary guidance. METHODS. Dietary data from 8181 adults in the US Department of Agriculture's 1989-1991 Continuing Surveys of Food Intakes by Individuals were …
Foreign travels
Entering a new millennium the state of the public understanding of science is, and will continue to be, a key to the human condition; stories of the past may help to deepen it. In that hope we intend to mark the end of the present millennium in September 2000 or the start of the new one in January 2001 by an issue with millennial contributions, the choice of date depending on how rapidly potential authors respond to these hints
Our foreign correspondence
Introduction to the May 1999 issue of Notes and Records
Essay Review: The gatekeeper of the modern world
Niccolo Guicciardini, Reading the Principia; The debate on Newton's mathematical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736 . Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 285, £50.00. ISBN 0–521–64066–0
In this issue
We hope our readers appreciate our new pictorial cover, which will, from year to year, display different aspects of the history of the Society. With whom else could we start but Newton? Yet he is not the only Fellow of his day who set natural philosophy on the course we still follow. In this issue, we recall the influence of John Ray on the classification of plants, insects, birds and fishes
In this issue
There was in the January issue a report of a meeting held last year to celebrate the life and achievements of John Ray, F.R.S., together with an article on one of his successors as a clerical naturalist. Three further papers from the meeting appear in this number, two on Ray's religious and philosophical positions, and one on the famous Historia Piscium ( History of fishes )
Royal weather
Fellows of The Royal Society have been interested in weather from the earliest years of the Society. When John Locke was in Montpellier in 1676 he made many observations of the weather, which are in his unpublished Journal . Edmond Halley collected observations of winds worldwide from sea captains and published a chart of the trade winds in Philosophical Transactions . Robert Hooke devised a barometer for use at sea. Present Fellows are deeply in…
Varieties of science
Introduction to the September 2001 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Robert Boyle by John Riley. (Royal Society portrait.)
Edmond Halley and the magnetic field of the earth
Edmond Halley was interested in magnetism from his schooldays to the end of his life, and of all his notable contributions to natural knowledge, his survey of the magnetic field over the Atlantic Ocean surely stands out both for its achievement at the time and for its lasting value. His identification of the westerly drift and his speculations about its origin, his description of aurorae and his connection of them with the geomagnetic field, all …
Plants illustrating exotic collections
The study of plants was nothing new when The Royal Society was founded, but some of our earliest Fellows changed it drastically. Perhaps they did not do this as suddenly or as completely as did Newton for dynamics, but in the long run they had at least as great an influence on views of the natural world and how to study it. Did God create all the great variety of plants no one (in Europe) had ever seen before, and if so why? Plants brought back b…
Time and The Royal Society
Fellows of The Royal Society have been concerned with the definition and measurement of time from the first days of the Society. John Flamsteed, F.R.S., ‘Royal Astronomer’, showed that the rotation of the Earth was isochronous and that the length of the solar day varied with the season because the path of the Earth about the Sun was an ellipse inclined to the Equator of the Earth. In the 20th century, D.W. Dye, F.R.S., made quartz oscillators tha…
The new millennium
A journal of the history of science seems almost obliged to mark the transition from one millennium to another, artificial though that may be. It seems even more contrived for a journal that is about science related to The Royal Society, for our history spans not even a millennium but almost exactly one–third of that period. Yet the history of science in those years has much to teach us today about the practice and use of science and to help in p…
Centenary of the NPL
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attained its centenary in 2000 and that was the occasion for a meeting in The Royal Society on 7 November 2000. The centenary is part of the record of The Royal Society because Fellows of the Society actively promoted the formation of the laboratory, and the programme of the Laboratory in its early years was guided by a committee of the Society. In addition, some of the researches of the Laboratory were supp…
Worldwide connections
Introduction to the May 2001 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Gabrielle–Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, who translated Newton's Principia into French together with a commentary (see pp. 227–245, this issue). (Reproduced from a portrait in the Château de Breteuil, Val de Chevreuse, by permission of M. le Marquis de Breteuil.)
Across the Alps: London and Bologna in the eighteenth century
Introduction to the January 2002 issue of Notes and Records . In the first century of the Society's existence a number of important developments were taking place in Italy, especially in astronomy and biology. The portrait shows Erasmus Darwin. (Copyright © The Royal Society)
Max Born
Max Born was one of the small group of theoretical physicists who established the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Born himself recognized that Heisenberg had the crucial idea that the variables in quantum mechanics should be observable quantities, not classical coordinates that were not observable. Heisenberg proposed to take instead quantities that were related to the transitions between states of an atom. The photograp…
A Roman tercentenary
Three hundred years ago, on 6 October 1702, the Pope, Clement XI, inaugurated a new meridian line in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, a line that had been set out by a Fellow of The Royal Society, Francesco Bianchini. In my foreword to our January issue I wrote something of his career at the papal court in Rome, of his activities as an astronomer and his membership of the Accademia Fisicamathematica associated with Queen Christina …
Continental connections
Introduction to the September 2003 issue of Notes and Records
And Other Anniversaries
Introduction to the January 2003 issue of Notes and Records with a picture of Vincenzo Viviani (1622 to 1703) by Pietro Dandini. Viviani is one of four Fellows whose death is being commemorated in 2003
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