Ever since it was demonstrated in the 1920s that the universe, with its trillions of galaxies, is caught up in a process of steady expansion, it became evident that it must have originated from an "initial singularity," a "Big Bang," which gave rise to the formation of subatomic parts, atoms, molecules, clouds of gas, and finally, stars and galaxies. Running this expansion back in time, scientists began to reckon with the miracle of an evolving universe of which we are the outcome: the iron in our blood has been formed in the stars. This book gives an overview of the cosmologies that were in vogue in antiquity--the Jewish and Christian concepts of Creation, and the classical thinkers in Greek cosmology: Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy--and in modern times, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. The book brings us right down to the present day with a careful and readable treatment of the scientific innovations inaugurated by Einstein and the specialists in quantum physics, and to recent developments in astrophysics. This path of exploration opens the avenue for imagining a Creator God who is so generous that he invites creation to share in his own creativity.
This volume is the first in a series dedicated to the important contributions of Prof. Georges-Jean Pinault to Indo-Aryan studies. The book gathers over twenty of his significant publications on Vedic linguistics and etymological problems, both in French and English. It includes complex issues and detailed discussions about phonetics and morphology of both Old Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages and deals with the etymology of prominent theonyms. It will be of utmost interest to anyone interested in the history of Indo-Aryan languages, Vedic poetics, Indian culture and Proto-Indo-European comparative linguistics.
The threshold as both boundary and bridge: investigations of spaces, public and private, local and global. Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not merely a home but a position for negotiations with multiple spheres—the technological as well as the physical and the psychological. In A Topology of Everyday Constellations, Georges Teyssot considers the intrusion of the public sphere into private space, and the blurring of notions of interior, privacy, and intimacy in our societies. He proposes that we rethink design in terms of a new definition of the practices of everyday life. Teyssot considers the door, the window, the mirror, and the screen as thresholds or interstitial spaces that divide the world in two: the outside and the inside. Thresholds, he suggests, work both as markers of boundaries and as bridges to the exterior. The stark choice between boundary and bridge creates a middle space, an in-between that holds the possibility of exchanges and encounters. If the threshold no longer separates public from private, and if we can no longer think of the house as a bastion of privacy, Teyssot asks, does the body still inhabit the house—or does the house, evolving into a series of microdevices, inhabit the body?
Les connaissances sur les Gaulois et leurs langues progressent par la découverte et l’interprétation des documents épigraphiques. Le présent volume, issu d’un colloque international et pluridisciplinaire qui s’est tenu à l’université de Clermont-Ferrand, regroupe dix-neuf contributions (en français, anglais, allemand, italien, espagnol). Le livre s’articule en deux parties : la première porte sur les contextes historique, géographique et sociologique des inscriptions gauloises et gallo-romaines, ainsi que sur les données archéologiques de la découverte de la tablette de plomb de Chamalières en 1971 ; la seconde partie envisage les langues celtiques dans leurs divers aspects (phonétique, morphologie, syntaxe, onomastique, toponymie). Parmi les auteurs, certains reviennent sur des documents gaulois dont l’analyse reste controversée, et plusieurs considèrent d’autres langues qui relèvent, comme le gaulois, du celtique continental: celtibère, lépontique, etc., dont la connaissance a beaucoup progressé dans les dernières décennies. L’interprétation des faits gaulois et des autres langues celtiques du continent est enrichie constamment par la confrontation avec les données plus récentes des langues celtiques insulaires, parmi lesquelles les langues brittoniques. La dialectologie de l’ensemble de la famille celtique est placée dans des perspectives nouvelles. Par sa diversité, ce volume est susceptible d’intéresser à la fois les historiens de la Gaule et de la péninsule Ibérique dans l’Antiquité, les linguistes, comparatistes du groupe indo-européen, et les philologues spécialistes des langues celtiques."--Quatrième de couverture
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