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Two proto-science-fiction novels written in French by 18th century women [PDF]
JAHH, 24, 125-136 (2021), 2021 With Cyrano, Voltaire, and Verne, France provided important milestones in the history of early science fiction. However, even if the genre was not very common a few centuries ago, there were numerous additional contributions by French-speaking writers.
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All crystal clear: 18th-century glass à la façon de Bohème from the cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine, Belgium [PDF]
, 2013 Excavations at the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine, located near Arlon in the south of Belgium, revealed an assemblage of 18th-century colorless glass.
Cagno, Simone +4 more
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Early Portuguese meteorological measurements (18th century)
, 2012 Natural proxies, documentary evidence and in- strumental data are the only sources used to reconstruct past climates. In this paper, we present the 18th century meteo- rologists (either Portuguese or foreigners) who made the first observations at several
M. Alcoforado +3 more
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Isotopic Ag–Cu–Pb record of silver circulation through 16th–18th century Spain
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011 Estimating global fluxes of precious metals is key to understanding early monetary systems. This work adds silver (Ag) to the metals (Pb and Cu) used so far to trace the provenance of coinage through variations in isotopic abundances. Silver, copper, and
Anne-Marie Desaulty +3 more
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The Relationship Between Enslaved Individuals And Plantation Architecture In 18th And 19th Century Virginia [PDF]
, 2020 The Relationship Between Enslaved Individuals And Plantation Architecture In 18th And 19th Century Virginia Emma Clark, Depts. of History and Anthropology, with Dr. Bernard K. Means, Dept.
Clark, Emma
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Explicit formulas for orthogonal polynomials derived from their difference equation [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 We solve the difference equation with linear coefficients by the Momentenansatz to obtain explicit formulas for orthogonal polynomials.
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, 2009 I will create a transcription for wind ensemble of the Overture to The Magic Flute by WA Mozart. By completing this transcription, a standard orchestral work will be available in comparable quality and difficulty for wind ensemble.
Stewart, Teresa Corinne
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Archaeological evaluation : Skelhorne Street, Liverpool [PDF]
, 2016 Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Nexus-Heritage to undertake an archaeological evaluation on a car park at Skelhorne Street and Bolton Street, Liverpool (centred on NGR 335075 390430) as part of a redevelopment scheme.
Mottershead, SC
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2011 Although numerical approaches were used by John Graunt to analyse patterns of mortality in 17th-century London,1 it was not until the early 18th century that numbers began to be used to assess the effects of medical interventions.2–7 This development ...
U. Tröhler
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Creation, Chaos, Time : from Myth to Modern Cosmology [PDF]
Cosmology 2016 vol.24. 501-515, 2016 Every society has a story rooted in its most ancient traditions, of how the earth and sky originated. Most of these stories attribute the origin of all things to a Creator - whether God, Element or Idea. We first recall that in the Western world all discussions of the origin of the world were dominated until the 18th century by the story of Genesis ...
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