Over de Verlichting en het proto-Kantianisme. Aan de hand van de beschrijving van het leven en vooral het werk van de filosoof Jean de Castillon, wil Van Driel laten zien dat het onderscheid dat de Britse historicus Jonathan Israel heeft aangebracht tussen de ‘radicale’ en de ‘conservatieve’ Verlichting kunstmatig is. Zijn stelling is dat we de achttiende-eeuwse wetenschap vooral moeten zien als een domein dat ‘in beweging’ was en dat we de Verlichting zeker niet als een voorportaal van het modernisme mogen beschouwen. Hij toont bovendien aan dat Castillon een vergeten schakel vormt tussen de verlichtingsdenkers en Kant

The purpose of these experiments was to study the effects of physical heterogeneity and velocity on transport of gas-phase contaminants in dry porous media. Experiments were conducted at gas velocities ranging from 6 to 200 cm min-1 to examine the contributions of longitudinal molecular diffusion, hydrodynamic dispersion, and rate-limited diffusive mass transfer to solute spreading. Methane was used as a nonreactive tracer, and trichloroethene, benzene and toluene were used as reactive tracers. Total dispersion of methane during transport through a homogeneous porous medium was the sum of longitudinal molecular diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion. The latter was the major process contributing to total dispersion at gas velocities greater than 40 cm min-1. The contribution of longitudinal molecular diffusion was negligible at gas velocities greater than 150 cm min-1. Transport of tracers in the heterogeneous (macroporous) medium exhibited preferential flow and tailing at gas velocities greater than about 100 cm min-1 as a result of rate-limited mass transfer between macropore and micropore domains. The spreading associated with rate-limited mass transfer between macropore and micropore domains was the main contributor to total dispersion at gas velocities greater than 120 cm min-1. The transport of the reactive tracers was successfully predicted using data obtained for the nonreactive tracer

This volume of the Opera omnia will be devoted to the letters Euler exchanged in French with his friend and countryman Johann Kaspar Wettstein as well as with some Swiss scholars in and around Geneva (Louis Bertrand, Charles Bonnet, Marc-Michel Bousquet, Jean Castillon, Gabriel Cramer, Philibert Cramer, Gaspard Cuentz, Georges-Louis Lesage). It will also include a letter from Johann Michael von Loen, a remote relative of Euler mentioned in the Euler-Bertrand correspondence. Many letters published in this volume provide new information about Euler's non-scientific activities, like the commerce of almanachs, the preparation of his writings for publication, the support of young scientists in search of a position, and his insatiable need for Virginia tobacco