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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe
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What is the Measure of Electricity?
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on February 23, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Faraday made use of numerous electrical measuring instruments;…
Speedy Achilles
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 9, 2025 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Galileo’s mathematical treatment of 'speed' perennially…
Telegraphy and Radiotelegraphy
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on February 18, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Overland telegraph technology implicitly embodied a…
The Vacuum Tube
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 15, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "A puzzling phenomenon observed by Edison in one of his…
Broadcast Radio
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor emeritus Howard Fisher on April 29, 2026 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "This talk will recount the paths by which the basic…
Meet your new best friend : the square root of negative one
Transcript of a lecture given on September 11, 2019 by Grant Franks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Trigonometric interpretation of complex numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 17, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Constructible numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 24, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The pentagon and the heptagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 1, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The heptadecagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 8, 2019 by Grant Franks.
On teachers and students : Heidegger in America
Transcript of a lecture given on September 21, 2018 by Michael Gillespie as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Euclid's V.5
Transcript of lecture given on February 23, 1973 by Dean Haggard.
The (Plato's) Cave, and the cave beneath the cave, in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
Transcript of a lecture given on October 10, 2014 by Jonathan Hand as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Reconciling subjectivity and substance : Hegel's critique of pure personhood
Transcript of a lecture given on September 6, 2019 by Jonathan Hand as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The winnowing oar : Odysseus' final journey
Transcript of a lecture given on September 21, 2016 by Claudia Hauer as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
Recognizing Odysseus
Transcript of a lecture given on February 1, 2019 by Margaret Kirby as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Phil LeCuyer on April 14, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Join tutor Phil LeCuyer for a lecture on the Book of Genesis with a…
An ennobling innocence : the founding of Socrates' Republic
Transcript of a lecture given on August 2, 1995 by David Levine as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series.
Four sides of a cube : or, why a certain question must be asked again and again
Transcript of a lecture given on August 31, 2001 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
A community of learning... in a land of Cartesians?
Transcript of a lecture given on August 30, 2002 by David Levine as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.