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Embodiment in 18th Century Depictions of Human-Machine Co-Creativity. [PDF]
Front Robot AI, 2021 Artificial intelligence has a rich history in literature; fiction has shaped how we view artificial agents and their capacities in the real world. This paper looks at embodied examples of human-machine co-creation from the literature of the Long 18th ...
Kantosalo A, Falk M, Jordanous A.
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A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance The spread and evolution of plague have been under debate in the past few years. However, very little is known of the dynamics of the plague pathogen, Yersinia pestis, during the last phase of the Second Plague Pandemic in Europe (18th and ...
Guellil M +16 more
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A solar cycle lost in 1793--1800: Early sunspot observations resolve the old mystery [PDF]
Astrophys.J.700:L154-L157,2009, 2009 Because of the lack of reliable sunspot observation, the quality of sunspot number series is poor in the late 18th century, leading to the abnormally long solar cycle (1784--1799) before the Dalton minimum. Using the newly recovered solar drawings by the 18--19th century observers Staudacher and Hamilton, we construct the solar butterfly diagram, i.e ...
Charbonneau +12 more
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Roads and cities of 18th century France. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2015 The evolution of infrastructure networks such as roads and streets are of utmost importance to understand the evolution of urban systems. However, datasets describing these spatial objects are rare and sparse.
Perret J, Gribaudi M, Barthelemy M.
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The solar differential rotation in the 18th century [PDF]
, 2012 The sunspot drawings of Johann Staudacher of 1749–1799 were used to determine the solar differential rotation in that period. These drawings of the full disk lack any indication of their orientation.
R. Arlt, H. Froehlich
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History of Catalan numbers [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 We give a brief history of Catalan numbers, from their first discovery in the 18th century to modern times. This note will appear as an appendix in Richard Stanley's forthcoming book on Catalan numbers.
Pak, Igor
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Limited urban growth: London's street network dynamics since the 18th century. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2013 We investigate the growth dynamics of Greater London defined by the administrative boundary of the Greater London Authority, based on the evolution of its street network during the last two centuries.
Masucci AP, Stanilov K, Batty M.
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The Electronic Corpus of 17th- and 18th-century Polish Texts
Language Resources and Evaluation, 2021 The paper describes the process of building the electronic corpus of 17th- and 18th-century Polish texts, a relatively large, balanced, structurally and morphologically annotated resource of the Middle Polish language, available for searching at https ...
W. Gruszczyński +6 more
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European Heights in the Early 18th Century [PDF]
, 2005 We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male heights are estimated at c. 65 inches (165 cm), and c. 66 inches (168 cm) respectively.
Cinnirella, Francesco, Komlos, John
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Deciphering papal ciphers from the 16th to the 18th Century
Cryptologia, 2020 In Meister’s 1906 landmark study, “Die Geheimschrift im Dienste der päpstlichen Kurie von ihren Anfängen bis zum Ende des XVI Jahrhunderts”, the 16th Century papal cryptographic service is described as a vibrant, highly professional organization, at the ...
G. Lasry, Beáta Megyesi, Nils Kopal
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