1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451785203321

Titolo

The Madrid Codex : new approaches to understanding an ancient Maya manuscript / / edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2009

©2004

ISBN

0-87081-861-9

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p.)

Collana

Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Disciplina

972.81/016

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Maya - History

Maya calendar

Mayas - Agriculture

Handmade paper - Analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1: Research Methodologies and New Approaches to Interpreting the Madrid Codex; Part 1: Provenience and Dating of the Madrid Codex; 2: The Paper Patch on Page 56 of the Madrid Codex; 3: Papal Bulls, Extirpators, and the Madrid Codex; 4: Tayasal Origin of the Madrid Codex; Part 2: Calendrical Models and Methodologies for Examining the Madrid Almanacs; 5: Maya Calendars and Dates; 6: Intervallic Structure and Cognate Almanacs in the Madrid and Dresden Codices; 7: Haab Dates in the Madrid Codex

8: A Reinterpretation of Tzolk'in Almanacs in the Madrid CodexPart 3: Connections Among the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices; 9: In Extenso Almanacs in the Madrid Codex; 10: The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices; 11: "Yearbearer Pages" and Their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex; Part 5: Overview: The Madrid Codex in theContext of Mesoamerican Traditions; 12: Screenfold Manuscripts of Highland Mexico and Their Possible Influence on Codex Madrid; Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972079303321

Autore

Holmes Frederic Lawrence

Titolo

Reconceiving the gene : Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics / / Frederic Lawrence Holmes ; edited by William C. Summers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786611730475

9781281730473

1281730475

9780300129700

030012970X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SummersWilliam C

Disciplina

576.5092

B

Soggetti

Geneticists - United States

Bacteriophages - Genetics

Viral genetics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Classical mendelian genetics -- Genetics and the phage biologists -- The physicist becomes a phage biologist -- To Paris and back -- Teaching and research at Purdue -- Entering the rII region -- Crossing into the fine structure -- Is gene a dirty word? -- The survival of the "gene".

Sommario/riassunto

This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer's accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to have led geneticists from the classical gene into the molecular age. Drawing on Benzer's remarkably complete record of his experiments, his correspondence, and published sources, this book reconstructs how the former physicist initiated his work in phage biology and achieved his landmark investigation. The account of Benzer's creativity as a



researcher is a fascinating story that also reveals intriguing aspects common to the scientific enterprise.