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Formation and development of the banking system in Galicia on the eve of joining the Austrian monarchy in the second half of the 18th century

, 2023
Іryna Borys
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Happy in the service of the Company: the purchasing power of VOC salaries at the Cape in the 18th century [PDF]

This paper contributes to the debate on the level and trajectory of welfare at the Cape of Good Hope during the 18th century. Recent scholarship (for example, Allen 2005) has calculated and compared the levels and evolution of real wages in various ...
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis
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Hidden Beneath: Watermarks in the Early American Document Collection [PDF]

, 2016
This summer, as the Smith Intern at Special Collections, I was tasked with working on a hodge-podge of assembled documents, previously referred to as the “18th Century Document” collection.
Black, Tyler R.
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Thickness Calculation of Pigment Layers and Gold Leaves Using XRF and MA‐XRF Data

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this work, XRF and MA‐XRF data were used to estimate the thickness of Chromium Oxide (Cr₂O₃) pigment and gold leaf applied over Lead White (2PbCO3.Pb(OH)2). The thickness determination was based on the differential attenuation of the Pb‐Lα and Pb‐Lβ characteristic X‐rays, which allows correlating the overlying material layer with the Pb(Lα ...
Renato Pereira de Freitas, Ana Letícia Castro de Oliveira, André Rocha Pimenta, Elicardo Alves de Souza Gonçalves, Valter de Souza Felix, Marcelo Oliveira Pereira, Leandro Oliveira Pereira, Rafael Barreto Almada, Raysa Costa Nardes, Marcelino dos Anjos   +9 more
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Remnants from the Past: From an 18th Century Manuscript to 21st Century Ethnobotany in Valle Imagna (Bergamo, Italy). [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2023
Milani F, Bottoni M, Bardelli L, Colombo L, Colombo PS, Bruschi P, Giuliani C, Fico G.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Property Rights, Standards of Living, and Economic Growth: Western Canadian Cree [PDF]

The Great Divergence in standards of living for populations around the world occurred in the late 18th century. Prior to that date, evidence suggests that real wages of most Europeans, many living in China and India were similar.
Ann Carlos, Frank Lewis
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The performance of growing degree day models to predict spring phenology of herbaceous species depends on the species' temporal niche

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The concept of growing degree days (GDDs) is commonly used to predict phenological events in plants, assuming that plants develop proportionally to the accumulated temperature. Two species‐specific parameters, TBase and t0 (minimum temperature above which and start date
Robert Rauschkolb, Tomáš Herben, Jens Kattge, Barbara Knickmann, Anja Linstädter, Annette Menzel, Karin Mora, Birgit Nordt, Yann Vitasse, Patrick Weigelt, Christine Römermann   +10 more
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Nanoscale engineering of gold particles in 18th century Böttger lusters and glazes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Chari CS, Taylor ZW, Bezur A, Xie S, Faber KT.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Epistemics of the soul: Epistemic logics in German 18th-century empirical psychology. [PDF]

J Hist Behav Sci, 2022
Rydberg A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Debt sustainability in historical perspective: The role of fiscal repression [PDF]

This article examines the debt history of two contenders for European hegemony: 16th-century Spain and 18th-century Britain. We analyze their fiscal behavior using measures of overborrowing and fiscal policy functions. Our results suggest that stringency
Joachim Voth, Mauricio Drelichman
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