Vilnius bastion fortifications in 17th - 18th century
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2007 In 1648 the modernization of the defensive system of Vilnius town had been started. Preparing for a war with Moscow, it was planned to ring the capital of the Great Duchy of Lithuania with bastion fortifications.
Linas Girlevičius
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Time-dependent variation of lead isotopes of lead white in 17th century Dutch paintings. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 D'Imporzano P +6 more
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WAS MALTHUS RIGHT? A VAR ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC INTERACTIONS IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND [PDF]
This paper shows that the interaction between economic and demographic variables in England before the onset of modern economic growth did not fit some crucial assumptions of the Malthusian model. I estimated a vector autoregression for data on fertility,
Esteban A. Nicolini
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Physical and Chemical Characterisation of the Pigments of a 17th-Century Mural Painting in the Spanish Caribbean. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2021 Flores-Sasso V +5 more
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Of the use of the “English sector” in trigonometry: what amount of mathematical training was necessary in the 18th century? [PDF]
, 2016 In 1723 Edmund Stone published The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments, which was essentially a translation from the French of Bion’s Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique (1709).
Blanco Abellán, Mónica
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Batavia shipwreck timbers reveal a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Daly A +2 more
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Estate accounting as a public policy tool and its application in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century. [PDF]
Este estudio pretende informar sobre la contabilidad sucesoria en el Imperio Otomano, presentando una muestra originaria del siglo XVII. En el Imperio Otomano, la contabilidad sucesoria y la liquidación de herencias servía para mantener el orden social ...
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A Solar Constant Model for Sun-climate Studies: 1600-2000AD [PDF]
, 1990 Discussed here is the solar constant model published recently (Schatten, 1988), but with a modified phasing and amplitude. This model enables the known solar constant variations to be calculated from known active region and quiet region solar parameters.
Orosz, Jerome A., Schatten, Kenneth H.
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