Congratulations to former Consortium fellow Nick Best, whose article, “Meta-Incommensurability between Theories of Meaning: Chemical Evidence,” recently appeared in Perspectives on Science. His translation of an important paper by Lavoisier will soon be published in two parts in Foundations of Chemistry: “Lavoisier’s ‘Reflections on phlogiston’ I: against phlogiston theory,” and “‘Reflections on phlogiston’ II: on the nature of heat.” Nick Best is a Ph.D. Candidate at Indiana University. He was a Dissertation Research Fellow at the Consortium in 2009-2010.
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Smilodon floridanus (saber-tooth cat) type specimen, “Description of mammalian remains from a rock crevice in Florida” by Joseph Leidy. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Volume 2, 1890.