What Was a Relevant Translation in the 18th Century? [PDF]
, 2017 The paper applies RT to analyse an 18th century translation of a Latin text by the preeminent Romanian scholar Demetrius Cantemir. The translation diverges significantly from the original and was met with harsh criticism.
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Is there a universal concept of mass in fundamental physics? [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The concept of mass was introduced as a mathematical abstraction and unifying principle in physics by Newton in the 17th century, and calibrated on a Solar System scale by Cavendish at the end of the 18th century. In the 19th century, this concept proved adequate to explain a vast range of physical processes on all scales from the microscopic to the ...
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Motion as Music: Hypermetrical Schemas in Eighteenth-Century Contredanses [PDF]
, 2018 An important part of the recent growth in scholarship on meter focuses on reconstructing 18th-century listening practices. Danuta Mirka (2009) studies contemporary accounts of meter in theory treatises to build a model of 18th-century metric listening ...
Stevens, Alison N
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The long-term solar variability, as reconstructed from historical sources: Several case studies in the 17th -- 18th centuries [PDF]
Proceedings of "2024 International Symposium on History of
Astronomy" (pp. 87-102)On a centennial timescale, solar activity was quantified based on records of instrumental sunspot observations. This article briefly discusses several aspects of the recent archival investigations of historical sunspot records in the 17th to 18th centuries.
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‘O effeminacy! Effeminacy!’ War, masculinity and the myth of liberal peace [PDF]
, 2011 This article is available open access through the publisher’s website at the link below. Copyright @ 2011 The Author.This article challenges a received wisdom in the liberal peace thesis, namely that the roots of the conjunction of liberalism and peace ...
Neocleous, M
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Luminescence dating of wind-blown sands from the Broo Peninsula, Shetland [PDF]
, 2012 This report provides a temporal framework to support University of Stirling geo-archaeological investigations near Huesbreck, Broo Pennisula (Shetland), examining how the early modern population there, adapted to harsh climate conditions in the 18-19th ...
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, 2013 This article critically explores the history and nature of a hermeneutic assumption which frequently guided interpretations of Plotinus from the 18th century onwards, namely that Plotinus advanced a system of philosophy. It is argued that this assumption
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The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry : the example of Manchester and the south-western Pennine Uplands during the 18th century (part 2) [PDF]
, 2008 Between the early 18th century and the mid-19th century the north-west of England was turned from a relatively impoverished backwater to one of the major industrialisation zones in the world. This is thus a key region for understanding the archaeology of
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Robert Gibson and teaching philosophy of nature in 18th century Ireland [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The dissemination of natural philosophy in the 18th-century, which was based primarily on Newton's pioneering work in mechanics, optics and astrophysics, is presented as seen through a remarkable textbook written by a little known Irish mathematics teacher, Robert Gibson. Later, he became the deputy surveyor general of Ireland (1752-1760).
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Geometry in the Age of Enlightenment [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 This paper describes the evolution of aspects of differential and algebraic gometry from the mid 17th century till the end of the 18th century.
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