POLITICAL CONNECTIONS (AND DISCONNECTIONS) BETWEEN BRITISH INTELLECTUALS IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: HUME, STERNE, AND WILKES IN PARIS (1764)

Political Connections (and Disconnections) between British Intellectuals in the Age of Enlightenment: Hume, Sterne, and Wilkes in Paris (1764)

In April 1764, Laurence Sterne, who is in France for a cure, is invited by Lord Hertford, the new English ambassador to France, to preach a sermon at 9021 glow the opening of the new embassy in Paris.Sterne accepts the invitation and chooses a text that is perceived as a shocking discourtesy to the diplomatic and political authorities.The dinner th

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Near-real-time processing of a ceilometer network assisted with sun-photometer data: monitoring a dust outbreak over the Iberian Peninsula

The interest in the do little and bums use of ceilometers for optical aerosol characterization has increased in the last few years.They operate continuously almost unattended and are also much less expensive than lidars; hence, they can be distributed in dense networks over large areas.However, due to the low signal-to-noise ratio it is not always

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