Kevin Berland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Berland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Berland |
| SIGNATURE | BERLAND K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
According to the World Health Organization (Who), at least 15 percent of the world's population lives with a disability that limits participation in everyday life, which the Who identifies as a human rights issue: “people are disabled by society, not just by their bodies” (“10 Facts on Disability,” Nov. 2017, World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/disability/en/). This principle demands a major reexamination of how soci…
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Philadelphia experienced a series of devastating yellow fever outbreaks in the 1790s. Outbreaks were far from unknown; British North American newspapers had reported them as early as the 1730s, documenting the ravages of yellow fever first in the West Indies and then in Boston, New York City, and elsewhere along the Atlantic coast. In the last decade of the eighteenth century Philadelphia was the political and cultural capital of the new Republic…
The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intend…
Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
"After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was inten…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
Reading character in the face: Lavater, Socrates, and physiognomy
Deceived by the noble appearance of the Thane of Crawdor, and ironically about to be deceived again by the appearance of Macbeth, Shakespeare's King Duncan laments. 'There is no art/To find the mind's construction in the face'1 In fact, just such an art did exist, an art codified by long tradition of at least two thousand years standing as Shakespeare wrote (and which remained cyclically current into the nineteenth century). Duncan was apparently…
Bringing Philosophy Down from the Heavens: Socrates and the New Science
The Way of Caution: Elenchus in Bacon’s Essays
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve forever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.-Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Bacon employs three literary modes or strategies of what he would call Tradition (i.e., transitive knowledge) in his prose: the Expository or Didactic, the Parabolic, and the Dial…
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
According to the World Health Organization (Who), at least 15 percent of the world's population lives with a disability that limits participation in everyday life, which the Who identifies as a human rights issue: “people are disabled by society, not just by their bodies” (“10 Facts on Disability,” Nov. 2017, World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/disability/en/). This principle demands a major reexamination of how soci…
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Philadelphia experienced a series of devastating yellow fever outbreaks in the 1790s. Outbreaks were far from unknown; British North American newspapers had reported them as early as the 1730s, documenting the ravages of yellow fever first in the West Indies and then in Boston, New York City, and elsewhere along the Atlantic coast. In the last decade of the eighteenth century Philadelphia was the political and cultural capital of the new Republic…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
Reading character in the face: Lavater, Socrates, and physiognomy
Deceived by the noble appearance of the Thane of Crawdor, and ironically about to be deceived again by the appearance of Macbeth, Shakespeare's King Duncan laments. 'There is no art/To find the mind's construction in the face'1 In fact, just such an art did exist, an art codified by long tradition of at least two thousand years standing as Shakespeare wrote (and which remained cyclically current into the nineteenth century). Duncan was apparently…
The Way of Caution: Elenchus in Bacon’s Essays
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve forever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.-Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Bacon employs three literary modes or strategies of what he would call Tradition (i.e., transitive knowledge) in his prose: the Expository or Didactic, the Parabolic, and the Dial…
Bringing Philosophy Down from the Heavens: Socrates and the New Science
Reading character in the face: Lavater, Socrates, and physiognomy
Deceived by the noble appearance of the Thane of Crawdor, and ironically about to be deceived again by the appearance of Macbeth, Shakespeare's King Duncan laments. 'There is no art/To find the mind's construction in the face'1 In fact, just such an art did exist, an art codified by long tradition of at least two thousand years standing as Shakespeare wrote (and which remained cyclically current into the nineteenth century). Duncan was apparently…
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
A colonial Virginia gentleman's thoughts on society, sex, and power William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into …
The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover
The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intend…
Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
"After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was inten…
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic
Philadelphia experienced a series of devastating yellow fever outbreaks in the 1790s. Outbreaks were far from unknown; British North American newspapers had reported them as early as the 1730s, documenting the ravages of yellow fever first in the West Indies and then in Boston, New York City, and elsewhere along the Atlantic coast. In the last decade of the eighteenth century Philadelphia was the political and cultural capital of the new Republic…
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
According to the World Health Organization (Who), at least 15 percent of the world's population lives with a disability that limits participation in everyday life, which the Who identifies as a human rights issue: “people are disabled by society, not just by their bodies” (“10 Facts on Disability,” Nov. 2017, World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/disability/en/). This principle demands a major reexamination of how soci…
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America
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