Late Brother Research Articles

Are sport and traditional Inuit games identified as tools in current Inuit suicide prevention strategies?: A content analysis

ABSTRACT Eekeeluak Avalak, an 18-year-old Inuk wrestler who won the first-ever gold medal for Nunavut at the Canada Summer Games in 2022, dedicated his win to his late brother who died by suicide in 2015. Avalak openly attributed sport – specifically wrestling – to saving his own life. This story raises important questions about the role of sport and traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. Few studies have examined the role of sport or traditional games in Inuit suicide prevention strategies. In an attempt to reduce Inuit suicide rates, in addition to the National Inuit Prevention Strategy, three of the four land claim regions that constitute Inuit Nunangat have suicide prevention strategies. In this study, we used settler colonial theory, critical Inuit studies, and content analysis to examine if and how sport and Inuit traditional games are identified as prevention tools in these Inuit suicide prevention strategies. The results demonstrate that sport and traditional games have largely been overlooked as protective factors in current Inuit-wide and land-claim specific suicide prevention strategies. Moving forward, evidence-based and community-driven approaches could be funded, created, implemented, and evaluated as culturally-safe Inuit mental health intervention models to address the disproportionately high suicide rates among Inuit in Inuit Nunangat.

Symposium on the Lives and Work of Armand Mauss and O. Kendall White

On October 24, 2020, the Mormon Social Science Association convened to pay tribute to Armand L. Mauss and O. Kendall White, both of whom passed away in 2020. Mauss and White were influential members of the MSSA and leaders in the social scientific study of Mormonism. This tribute is a symposium comprised of three essays on the life and work of these scholars. In the first essay, Daryl White (emeritus, Spelman College) pays tribute to his late brother, noting how O. Kendall White’s biography and scholarship were intertwined, and chronicling Ken’s influence on the nascent sociological study of Mormonism. In the second essay, Gary Shepherd (Oakland University) and Gordon Shepherd (University of Central Arkansas) recount their four-decade association with Armand L. Mauss and describe the profound impact Armand has had on Mormon studies generally, and the social scientific study of Mormonism in particular. Finally, David Knowlton (Utah Valley University) considers the lives and influence of Mauss and White collectively, reflecting on how their work served as a foundation for the maturing field of Mormon social science.

Cultivation as Immanent Critique: Horticultural Metaphors in Gregory of Nyssa’s Reception of Origen and Basil

AbstractThe present article asks after Gregory of Nyssa’s debts to Basil the Great, and this by re-examining two texts the former wrote shortly after the latter’s death:De hominis opificioandApologia in Hexaemeron. It does so on the premise, mostly promissory for now, that Gregory’s efforts to sort through Basil’s legacy in his late brother’s wake was part and parcel of the Nyssen’s career-long project to reprise Origen of Alexandria under a “pro-Nicene” banner. Defending his elder sibling’s apparently incompleteHomiliae in Hexameronwhile also disputing their basic premise, that is, gave Gregory an opportunity to negotiate the dialectic of dependence and distinction that ultimately determined his reception of earlier authorities, including the great Alexandrian they both revered. With that much longer story in sight, this article focuses on Gregory’s deployment of horticultural metaphors, especially in theApologia in Hexaemeron, to describe his stance toward both Basil and Origen. Closer scrutiny of these images alongside his more technical means of differentiating between himself and Basil suggests that Gregory considered his own work to be both a natural development of his predecessors and, precisely thereby, the immanent perfection of their thought.

Sheldon Peck (1941-2021) Secretary of the EHASO, 1995-2009.

Sheldon Peck (1941-2021) Secretary of the EHASO, 1995-2009.

Poe in Richmond: A Gift from Poe to Elmira Shelton

Poe in Richmond: A Gift from Poe to Elmira Shelton

Poe in Richmond: A Gift from Poe to Elmira Shelton

Poe in Richmond: A Gift from Poe to Elmira Shelton

José "Pepe" Baselga, MD, PhD: In Memoriam (1959-2021).

![][1] On March 21, 2021, a guiding light in cancer research and clinical oncology and valiant transformer of patient treatment and care was extinguished. Jose Baselga's untimely passing has sent shockwaves through the global cancer research community. We have lost a true giant—a visionary leader in translational science and precision oncology and one who also transformed institutions and professional societies every­where he went. As we reflect on some of Jose's many remarkable achievements as well as the many qualities that made him the unique individual he was, we hope to do him justice. This is the first obituary published in Cancer Discovery , a journal for which he served as a founding Editor-in-Chief along with Editor-in-Chief Lewis C. Cantley. The irony is bittersweet: Jose was an undisputed man of “firsts” whom we all followed, trying to keep up with his trailblazing pace, frightening brilliance, and steadfast determination to improve outcomes for patients with cancer everywhere. Jose Baselga was born on July 3, 1959, in Barcelona, Spain, with the pursuit of excellence in health care quite literally in his blood. His mother was a nurse, and both his father and grandfather were physicians. “Medicine runs in our family like an autosomal dominant trait,” said his youngest sister Eulalia, herself a pediatric dermatologist at the San Joan de Deu Hospital in Barcelona, during a recent tribute for her late brother. Like his younger sister, Jose was destined to be a devoted physician and healer who spent his life caring for patients with cancer. During his outstanding 27-year career, Jose produced a remarkable string of milestones in translational and clinical cancer research that have echoed internationally in the battle against cancer. Even during his early days as a resident in Internal Medicine at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Jose displayed signs of the … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif

The 1869 controversy of cellular theory: Goodsir versus Virchow.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters and has been in existence since the eighteenth century. On 23 November 1868, a general meeting was held by the RSE at which members nominated the German academic, Professor Rudolf Virchow, as an Honorary Fellow in recognition of his key contributions to cellular theory. This nomination was opposed by the Reverend Joseph Taylor Goodsir, brother of the late Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University, John Goodsir. Reverend Goodsir went on to accuse the German professor of plagiarising his late brother's pioneering work in the formulation of cell theory. The resultant furore created by the Reverend Goodsir led to an acrimonious scientific dispute in the Edinburgh medical establishment, then one of the leading centres of medical education. The current work describes the history of cellular theory as it pertains to John Goodsir and Rudolf Virchow, discusses the history behind the scientific dispute and interprets Reverend Joseph Taylor Goodsir's role relating his actions to his continuing battle with mental illness, and the aftermath of the dispute as it affected the reputation of John Goodsir.

A Novel Mutation of SLC19A2 in a Chinese Zhuang Ethnic Family with Thiamine-Responsive Megaloblastic Anemia

Background/Aims: Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder resulting from mutations in SLC19A2, and is mainly characterized by megaloblastic anemia, diabetes, and progressive sensorineural hearing loss. Methods: We study a Chinese Zhuang ethnicity family with thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia. The proband of the study presented with anemia and diabetes, similar to his late brother, as well as visual impairment. All clinical manifestations were corrected with thiamine (30 mg/d) supplementation for 1–3 months, except for visual impairment, which was irreversible. The presence of mutations in all exons and the flanking sequences of the SLC19A2 gene were analyzed in this family based on the proband’s and his brother’s clinical data. Computer analysis and prediction of the protein conformation of mutant THTR-1. The relative concentration of thiamine pyrophosphate in the proband’s whole blood before and after initiation of thiamine supplement was measured by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Results: Gene sequencing showed a homozygous mutation in exon 6 of the SLC19A2 gene (c.1409insT) in the proband. His parents and sister were diagnosed as heterozygous carriers of the c.1409insT mutation. Computer simulation showed that the mutations caused a change in protein conformation. HPLC results suggested that the relative concentration of thiamine pyrophosphate in the proband’s whole blood after thiamine supplement was significantly different (P=0.016) from that at baseline. Conclusions: This novel homozygous mutation (c.1409insT) caused the onset of thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia in the proband.

J. Lasley Dameron (1926–2016)

[We begin this obituary with a notice written by Lasley himself; following that, we include a tribute by Benjamin F. Fisher.]Dr. John Lasley Dameron, ninety years old, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Memphis, passed away at the Baptist Reynolds Hospice House on June 27, 2016. Born in Burlington, North Carolina, he was the third child of Judge E. S. W. Dameron, Sr., and Lola Lasley Dameron. Reared in Burlington with his late brother, E. S. W. Dameron, Jr., who became an attorney at law, Dr. Dameron attended the University of North Carolina and graduated with a B.S. in commerce in 1950 and an M.A. in English in 1952. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman from 1943 to 1945. He was assigned for several months to the Third Marine Division and in February 1945 participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima. From 1953 to 1955 he served as instructor of English at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, and in 1962 he was awarded a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee.In the fall of 1962 Dr. Dameron joined the English Department of Memphis State University, retiring in 1991. Throughout his academic career he published and edited articles and books on nineteenth-century American writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He continued his research after his retirement and remained active in several scholarly organizations. He once served as president of the international Poe Studies Association from 1978 to 1980.Dr. Dameron was an avid tennis player. He and his wife of sixty-six years, Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron, each won several local and regional tennis championships. They have two sons: Dr. George Williamson Dameron, Professor of History at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, and John Edgar Dameron, activity director at the Lodge, a retirement home in Carson City, Nevada. Dr. Dameron and his wife also have two grandsons and six great-grandchildren.The death of Lasley Dameron (who ordinarily used his middle name in introducing himself, thus honoring his mother's maiden name) brings to an end the senior generation of founding members of the PSA. The organization actually exists because of a discussion during an MLA conference in Chicago in 1971 between Lasley and Jim Gargano. From their desire to establish an umbrella organization for Poe scholars, the PSA was born. Officially begun in 1972, the PSA continues to thrive today, nearly a half century later.After serving as the PSA's vice president during Eric Carlson's presidency, Lasley was elected president and served in that capacity from 1978 to 1980. Considering that the name of Poe often evokes strong opinions and strident exchanges, Lasley's was always a voice that counseled graciousness and calm. Although he authored many studies of Poe, Lasley's chief contribution to Poe studies is perhaps the bibliography of writings about Poe that he and Irby B. Cauthen published. This book reminds us that work about Poe abounds. Lasley was particularly interested in Poe as magazinist and in Poe's sources. Although Poe was not Lasley's sole interest (the writings of Emerson and Hawthorne were two other strong enthusiasms), his contributions to Poe studies maintain great value for those engaging that field.Lasley will remain in memory as a genuine gentleman and scholar.

Report on the Second Congress of the Russian Society for the Theory of Music

[1] The Second Congress of the Society for the Theory of Music convened at the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory for four days, from September 26 to 29, 2015. The established theme for the Congress was "Schools and Directions in Music Scholarship, Performance and Composition." Established scholars as well as students from many parts of Russia, the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Denmark, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, and the former Soviet republics of central Asia read papers on a vast variety of theoretical, compositional, and pedagogical subjects. The range of these papers gave witness to a growing community of scholars interested not only in Russian music theory, but also in theoretical systems and approaches from everywhere.[2] Plenary sessions for the keynote speakers opened the first two days of the conference, followed by two triple sessions, each featuring three or four individual papers. The last two days featured three triple sessions per day. Throughout the Congress special master classes offered teaching demonstrations addressing various methods of solfeggio, multimedia composition, and other pedagogical topics. The Congress closed with a summary round-table discussion led by several of the keynote speakers. Participants were also offered free tickets to two evening concerts featuring the works of Arvo Part and Sergei Taneyev, held in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. (For more specific information about the schedule, please refer to the conference program.)[3] Among the highlights of the Congress were the keynote addresses, two delivered in English with printed Russian translations, the other two given in Russian with printed English translations. Alexander Sokolov of the Moscow Conservatory began the proceedings with a paper tracing the functional approach to musical form in Russian theoretical thought: Asafiev's triad of general functions (initium-motus-terminum, or beginning-motion-closing), Sposobin's enlarged system of functions (introduction-exposition-connection-middle section-reprise-closing), the application of the i-m-t model to Chopin by Bobrovski, as well as the extension of functional systems to expression, dramaturgy and semantics. Through references to some of the upcoming paper sessions and presenters, Sokolov's talk also served as an introduction to the Congress as a whole.[4] On the English side of things, William Caplin from McGill University delivered an excellent keynote address on thematic closure in early Romantic music, where he suggested several ways to expand the concept of cadence for the music of Schubert. The biggest hit with the Russian contingent, however, was the talk by Giorgio Sanguinetti (University of Rome-Tor Vergata) on partimenti and their relation to music theory in the 18th century; in fact, the venerable Valentina Kholopova predicted that partimenti would soon be incorporated into the curriculum at the Moscow Conservatory. Tatiana Naumenko of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music delivered the remaining keynote address, a survey of trends in Russian musical scholarship from the 1930s to the 2000s. Her data-driven presentation revealed an interesting result: although the number and subject matter of musicological dissertations changed drastically in the 1990s (with more dissertations overall, and more research on performance, on Russian music written before 1917, and on music from outside Russia), the number of dissertations in music theory remained relatively unchanged--perhaps suggesting that theory's more abstract nature was not so severely affected by the strictures of Soviet realism![5] The individual paper sessions embraced topics both conventional and unexpected. Among several sessions devoted to Russian schools of musical and pedagogical scholarship, the standout paper was by Valentina Kholopova, who (with her late brother Yuri) has been an institution at the Moscow Conservatory for half a century. Her theory of musical content has received widespread recognition in Russian theory curricula. …

Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in ethnographic and early census materials

This article may be the first comprehensive work on polygamous families among the Yamal indigenous nomadic people. Based on the analyses of ethnographic descriptions, early census materials, Polar census (1926–27) and Yamal (Nenets) okrug census (1932–33) it focuses on how polygamous families were registered in censuses; their composition, ethnicity and economy and most important: why did polygamy exist in a society with a demographic shortage of women?I argue that region's remoteness, Russian state politics and slow advances of the Russian Orthodox Church into the region helps explain the late existence of polygamous families. According to our data, there were up to 6,5 % polygamous families of reindeer herders in Yamal even in the early-mid 1930s.I argue that polygamy in the Yamal area was not primarily an ethnic or religious issue. It connected to the household's main occupation - reindeer herding, a nomadic way of life and was a distinct marker of wealth before the social changes started in early 1930s.Analyses of the fourteen polygamous families show that they were significantly larger than the average 5,5 members in the Yamal nomadic households; men were married to two women one of which was notably older, likely the widow of older late brother. I also advocate the opinion that polygamy in the north could be considered as a system of social security for women in general and widows in particular. Only genuine appreciation and general acceptance of the tradition, which let some men have more than one wife while depriving others of any hope of having their own family and children, could make this phenomenon last for centuries.

The Man Who Didn’t Go To Newcastle Clink Alison The Man Who Didn’t Go To Newcastle 320pp £10.99 Matador 978-1-78462-235-0 1784622354

Alison Clink is well known as a short story writer but this book is a poignant and moving memoir written in tribute to her late brother, Adrian.

The Poor and the Perfect: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209–1310, by Neslihan Şenocak

In this book, Neslihan Şenocak seeks not only to tell the story of the phenomenally rapid rise of learning in the Franciscan Order during the first century of its existence, but also to explain how and why that came about, particularly given the highly controversial nature of what many saw as an antithesis to the principles advocated by the founder, Francis of Assisi, and cherished by his early companions. Almost from the outset, the question and controversy was fraught with a certain irony as often the greatest critics of the rise of learning in the Order were themselves learned men. A colourfully articulate example is found in Jacopone da Todi, writing his famous Lauds during the period discussed by Şenocak. Jacopone had been a successful lawyer married to a noblewoman yet, after entering the Order of Friars Minor, became a champion of strict observance; in his highly satirical poem titled The Late Brother Rinaldo, he clearly equated higher learning with the lax observance of poverty and the attendant virtue of simplicity. The irony is deepened by Şenocak’s carefully documented assertion that the firmest upholders of a strict observance of poverty as the great sign of evangelical perfection, given to the Order as a kind of guarantor of its unique worth, was actually articulated by clerical schoolmen and not simple laymen, as one might expect. A prime example of this, in terms of the early literature of the Order, is given in the startling assertion that the Sacrum Commercium, a famously polemical allegory of the pristine virtues of poverty and simplicity (with implicit criticism of those who would flout these ideals), is not from the early decades of the thirteenth century but was actually composed around mid-century and, significantly, is the work of an educated schoolman.

Wearing in memory: Materiality and oral histories of dress

Abstract This article considers materiality in relation to memories of dress and explores why women remember the materiality of clothes they no longer wear or even no longer own. The focus is on two historical case studies of specific garments collected through primary interviews undertaken as part of my doctoral research. One, a black silk-velvet dress, belonged to Mary who had kept the skirt of the garment, with its signs of wear and physical material traces of use. It was bound up with memories of her late brother, who paid for the dress before his death on active service in World War II, and her late husband and their early lives together. Doris’ sister made the other dress for her 21st birthday in 1942. Doris had not kept this cotton-organdie dress, but this decision was full of regret. In her case, retaining memories of the materiality of the garment and the occasion when it was first worn had become a substitute for the garment itself. Both oral histories reveal the significance of materiality at the time a garment is worn and in how dress wears in and on our memories.

‘We agreed that they could conduct an autopsy on my brother’

I was only a child when Dr Carleton Gajdusek, Michael Alpers and Shirley Lindenbaum conducted research on kuru in the South Fore. They patrolled around the villages and saw how many of our people were dying of kuru and the number of orphans in our villages. My late brother, Mr Animo Kaguya, was the

Film talk: directors at work

What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit Grudge? What is it like to be an African American director in the twenty-first century? The answers to these questions, along with many more little-known facts and insights, can be found in Film Talk, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking from the 1940s to the present. In eleven intimate and revealing interviews, contemporary film directors speak frankly about their work - their successes and their disappointments, their personal aspirations, struggles, relationships, and the politics that affect the industry. A medley of directors including those working in pop culture and documentary, as well as feminist filmmakers, social satirists, and Hollywood mavericks recount stories that have never before been published. Among them are Monte Hellman, the auteur of the minimalist masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop; Albert Maysles, who with his late brother David created some of the most important documentaries of the 1960s, including Salesman and Beatles: What's Happening?; Robert Downey Sr., whose social satires Putney Swope and Greaser's Palace paved the way for a generation of filmmakers; Bennett Miller, whose film Capote won an Academy Award in 2005; and Jamie Babbit, a lesbian cross-over director whose low-budget film But I'm a Cheerleader! became a mainstream hit. The candid conversations, complimented by more than fifty photographs, including many that are rare, make this book essential reading for aspiring moviemakers, film scholars, and everyone interested in the how movies are made and who the fascinating individuals are who make them.

POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN AND SHIءI LEBANON: CONTESTED HISTORIES OF SHIءI TRANSNATIONALISM

In 2002 the Cultural Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Beirut invited Mehdi Chamran to visit Lebanon. Chamran's late brother, Mustafa, was a member of an anti-Pahlavi opposition movement with bases in Lebanon from 1970 to 1979. During his visit, Chamran was to meet several Lebanese Shiءi personalities and to visit Shiءa-run institutions in South Lebanon, including institutions affiliated with the Lebanese Shiءi political party Amal (Afwaj al-Muqawama al-Lubnaniyya), which is headed by the current speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, in order to speak about his late brother. In fact, many of the Lebanese Shiءa attending the speech had personally known Mustafa. He had, after all, offered military training to many active in Lebanon's first Shiءi militia, which subsequently became the Amal movement. On February 15, at the Nabih Berri Cultural Complex (Mujammaʿ Nabih Berri al-Thaqafi), in Tallat al-Radar, a town near Nabatiyya, in South Lebanon, Chamran began a speech by reading passages from his brother's letters and notes from 1973 that described the political atmosphere in South Lebanon amid Israeli military attacks. Chamran went on to discuss the relationship between the Islamic Revolution and Lebanese Shiءa, emphasizing the theme of closeness and unity. For a moment, as he read these passages, Chamran implied that Iranian and Lebanese Shiءa had been moving back and forth for centuries between their respective countries and hence were what one scholar calls “distant relations.”

The Cover

The Cover Mary W. LoLordo Click for larger view View full resolution Bookplate. Bookplate courtesy of the Halifax Regional Library Board. This pale yellow bookplate, 8.5 by 11.75 cm, is printed with the words "Presented to the Halifax Memorial Library by the North British Society of Halifax as a Centenary Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson" and with a black line drawing of Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, the birthplace of Stevenson (1850-94). It can be found in many of the books about Scotland belonging to the Halifax Public Libraries in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These books are the initial part of a gift given to the library in 1952. The drawing on the bookplate is signed by R. L. deC. H. Saunders (1908-95), a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax from 1937 [End Page 313] to 1973. He was not a member of the North British Society, the organization that donated these books to the library, but he was a Scot, born to Scottish parents in South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, so he would have known the castle well, and he came to Dalhousie as a professor of anatomy. According to Peter B. Waite in The Lives of Dalhousie (McGill, 1994), he fascinated medical students with his anatomical drawings, which he did on the blackboard with multicolored chalk, using both hands at once. Dr. Saunders also designed the university's coat of arms and the mace used in university ceremonies. There had been a public library in Halifax for many years before this gift was given. The first libraries in the city, though, were private organizations. D. C. Harvey, in Early Libraries of Nova Scotia (Dalhousie Review, 1934), discusses the development of these libraries. For-profit lending libraries that circulated the popular novels of the day were among the first libraries. Private libraries designed to serve specific groups soon followed. These included the Garrison Library, begun in 1817 for military officers, the Central Board of Agriculture Library, established in 1818, and several church congregational libraries. In 1824 the Halifax Library was established by the elite of local society. It was limited to 125 members, who paid an annual shareholder fee to fund the library. Samuel Cunard (1787-1865), the shipping magnate who began his career in Halifax, was a member of the Halifax Library. This library was eventually forced to close because its funds became too limited to allow the library to continue. The first opportunity for the general public to access books came in 1831, when the Halifax Mechanics' Library was formed. This library was open to anyone who could afford the twenty-shilling annual fee, and eventually it contained three thousand volumes. Not everyone in the city could afford to use this library, but it was accessible to citizens of the middle and business classes. However, this library existed for only thirty years before falling into debt and closing. Chief Justice Sir William Young (1799-1887), a shareholder in the Halifax Library, purchased both its collection and that of the Mechanics' Library and gave them to the city to operate as a free institution. A few years later Sir William also donated the one-thousand-book collection of his late brother, George R. Young (1802-53), to this library. This first free public library, the Citizens' Free Library, began its life in a small room in the old city courthouse. Here all the people of Halifax had access to the collection for no charge. By 1873 the library had outgrown its original home and begun its long search for a permanent home and stable funding. When Sir William died in 1887, he left the city four thousand dollars to be used within four years for the erection of a new library [End Page 314] building, but the conditions of the bequest were not fulfilled, and the money was returned to the estate. In 1890, after two unsuccessful attempts to find a permanent location, the library moved to a room in city hall. There it was hoped that the city's aldermen would come into contact with the library more often and become aware of its need for support. However, during...

Nochmals: Der 38. Brief des Basilius von Caesarea als Werk des Gregor von Nyssa

This essay takes up the contentious issue of authorship of Basil's Epistle 38. It is argued that its author must be Gregory of Nyssa which is in keeping with the broad scholarly consensus of past decades, but has been challenged recently. While admitting that previous arguments in favour of Gregorian authorship based on theological content have not been wholly persuasive, the present article aims at a demonstration on the basis of lexicographical evidence. It concludes by pointing out that Gregory probably wrote the treatise to compensate for unfinished work by his late brother similar to his practice elsewhere, e.g. in cosmology. Copyright © 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH and Co. KG.