The German-born Russian astronomer and geodesist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) is noted for his observations of double stars and for the measurement of the meridional arc from the north coast of Norway to Ismail on the Danube. On April...

I IN HIS PROVOCATIVE AND HIGHLY READABLE BOOK, Schelling and Modern European Philosophy, Andrew Bowie argues that "Schelling ... helps define key structures in modern philosophy by revealing the flaws in Hegel in ways which help set the agenda for philosophy even...

The contretemps between G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher at the University of Berlin is well known. (1) The nature of their struggle for influence, the latter's refusal to admit the former into the Berlin Academy and Hegel's reciprocal distancing of Schleiermacher...