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Teaching physics during the 17th century: some examples from the works of Evangelista Torricelli [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is proposing some physics problems from a book, De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium, written by Evangelista Torricelli, physicist and mathematician best known for his invention of barometer, with the aim of showing how physics was taught
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The advancement of digital technologies has brought a rapid global information exchange, impacting all areas of our lives. This also applies to science. Knowledge, conservation and scientific innovation on global biodiversity are being strengthened and disseminated at unprecedented scales.
Ana Flávia Alves Versiane +9 more
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Turkic Volosts of Verkhotursky Uyezd of 17th Century
Научный диалог, 2017 The questions of determination of the Turkic yasak volosts in the composition of Verkhotursk uyezd of the 17th century are covered. Up to the present time the dominant point of view is that nearly every volost of this uyezd of the 17th century was ...
G. K. Samigulov
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Basic Study of Synchronization in a Two Degree of Freedom, Duffing Based System [PDF]
, 2015 The issue of synchronization has been analyzed from many points of view since it was first described in 17th century. Nowadays the theory that stands behind it is so developed, it might be difficult to understand where it all comes from.
Dąbrowski, Artur +2 more
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Поговорим о деньгах (нерусские названия денежных единиц в “Курантах” XVII века)
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2017 Let’s Talk About Money (Non-Russian Currency Unit Names in the “Kuranty” Papers of the 17th Century): The paper analyses monetary unit names, incorporated into Russian language in the first seven decades of the 17th century.
Głuszak, Dorota
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The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective [PDF]
We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early
Jörg Baten, Mikolaj Szoltysek
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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A lenda de Apolo e Mársias. Representações artísticas e estudos de anatomia de superfície.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2005 The authors analyze an interesting sculpture found in the gardens of a 17th Century palace in Lisbon, representing the myth of Apollo and Marsyas, which led them to compare the details of the sculpture of the flayed satyr with the previous anatomic ...
M A Bettencourt Pires +2 more
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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