Ancient Christian Communities and Current Events

The Leontocephaline from villa Albagni as Demiurge The Leontocephaline from villa Albagni is a member of a sculpture archetype group, that represents the exalted god Ahriman's/Aion/Saturnus/Cronus in the Mithra cult. My thesis investigate how this image is a representation of a metaphorical gate between the world of the dead to the world of the living; as it presents of the body of the sculpture the celestial rode of the sole though the constellations as it was portrayed in Neoplatonist and Mithraism literature of the second to forth century, manly by Porphyry and Microbius. The statues were probably located in the Apse of Mithraeums, and were most likely intended to play an active role in the liminal ceremony of the promotion to the 'lion' rank in the Mithra order. Most likely, this statues actually bread fire from their mouth as a purification act in the ritual. An art history study of the Leontocephaline from villa Albagni can show that this statue represents a mediation between the cult of Mithra and the Neoplatonist environment, which governed the nobility of Rome in the Severic age. It withhold within it the Henotheism phenomena, and portrays the development which is portrayed by Jaime Alvar as to the distance between a Demiurge being to a very human like being, which reflect the increasing value of salvation all over the late antique period in the Mediterranean region. This sculpture and other of his kind introduce an opportunity to explore the reach diversity and religious tendencies of the second to forth century AD, which draw a direct rode toward religious in the formation of Mithra and Christianity.

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Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology, 2019

Abstract: Based on archival materials discovered in America, Britain, and China, this paper carefully examines the history of the short-lived and completely overlooked Department of Physics in the Premedical School of Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), and uncovers this department’s extensive interconnections with its counterpart at Yenching University. This project also looks into the Master of Science (MS) program in the Department of Physics at Yenching University, which, founded in 1927, was the first graduate program in physics in China. It was this MS program that transformed the Yenching Department from a largely premedical training center serving the PUMC into a prominent cradle of Chinese physics research. This Yenching Department, despite its small faculty and brief existence, nurtured many eminent Chinese physicists, such as Chao-Ying Meng 孟昭英, Wen-Yu Chang 张文裕, Ming-Chen Wang 王明贞, Chia-Liu Luke Yuan 袁家骝, Cheng-Shu Wang (Chang) 王承书, Ho-Fu Lu 卢鹤绂, Ting-Sui Ke 葛庭燧, Kun Huang 黄昆, and Chia-Lin Hsieh 谢家麟. It would have been impossible to achieve these outstanding accomplishments without the effective leadership and pioneering work of C. H. Corbett, P. A. Anderson, Y. M. Hsieh, and W. Band—the first four Department Chairs—in combination with relatively abundant private funding, mostly from America, and extensive educational connections with Western institutions. This paper not only introduces in detail these four department heads and their contributions, but also discloses the unique role played by the Rockefeller Foundation via the China Medical Board and the PUMC in the development of the Yenching Department of Physics. Keywords: The Premedical School of the Peking Union Medical College, the Department of Physics at Yenching University, the China Medical Board, the Rockefeller Foundation, William Warren Stifler (1883–1954), Charles Hodge Corbett (1881–1963), Paul Alexander Anderson (1898–1990), Yu-Ming Hsieh (1895–1986), William Band (1906–1993). 摘 要：根据在美、英、中三国发现的原始档案材料，本文仔细考察了此前完全被忽视的协和医学院预科学校物理系的短暂历史，并揭示了该系与燕京大学（简称燕大）物理系之间的密切联系。本研究还深入调查了创立于1927年的燕大物理系硕士研究生项目，这是中国第一个物理学研究生项目。正是这一研究生项目，将燕大物理系由一个主要帮助协和医学院准备合格医科学生的培训中心，转变成为中国物理学研究工作的一处重要发源地。燕大物理系的教授很少而且历史短暂，然而从那里却走出了许多杰出的中国物理学家，如孟昭英、张文裕、王明贞、袁家骝、王承书、卢鹤绂、葛庭燧、黄昆和谢家麟。这些突出成就的取得与该系头四位系主任郭查理、安德森、谢玉铭和班威廉的富有成效的领导和开拓性工作密不可分，同时也得益于相对充裕的、主要来自美国的私募经费以及与西方教育机构的深厚联系。本文不仅详细介绍了这四位物理系的领军人物及其贡献，而且展示了洛克菲勒基金会通过中华医学基金会与协和医学院在燕大物理系发展过程中所发挥的独特作用。 关键词：协和医学院预科学校，燕京大学物理系，中华医学基金会，洛克菲勒基金会，W. W. Stifler（1883—1954），郭查理（C. H. Corbett，1881—1963），安德森（P. A. Anderson，1898—1990），谢玉铭（1895—1986），班威廉（William Band，1906—1993）

La tesi ha come obiettivo quello di indagare il rapporto biunivoco tra le città e i propri abitanti, le modalità attraverso cui l’ habitat urbano viene plasmato dai propri residenti e come questi ultimi a loro volta vengono influenzati nella percezione e nel modo di vivere dall’ ambiente che li circonda. Attenzione privilegiata sarà dedicata ai fenomeni di gentrificazione, architettura ostile e alle politiche attraverso cui le città scelgono e distribuiscono la propria popolazione in base alla classe sociale e al potenziale consumistico e produttivo.