Space Studies of the Black-Drop Effect at a Mercury Transit [PDF]
Transits of Mercury and Venus across the face of the Sun are rare. The 20th century had 15 transits of Mercury and the 21st century will have 14, the two most recent occuring on 15 November 1999 and 7 May 2003. We report on our observations and analyses of a black-drop effect at the 1999 and 2003 transits of Mercury seen in high spatial resolution ...
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Women health providers: materials on cures, remedies and sexuality in inquisitorial processes (15th-18th century). [PDF]
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Josiah Wedgwood and his Portraits of 18th Century Men of Science [PDF]
John Thomas
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History and outlook of statistical physics [PDF]
This paper gives a short review of the history of statistical physics starting from D. Bernoulli's kinetic theory of gases in the 18th century until the recent new developments in nonequilibrium kinetic theory in the last decades of this century. The most important contributions of the great physicists Clausius, Maxwell and Boltzmann are sketched.
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Fractured Minds: A chronicle of neurotrauma in the 18th century. [PDF]
Dobran SA, Livint Popa L, Muresanu D.
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Fire blight in different production systems in Germany and strategies to control the disease [PDF]
Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a serious disease of pome fruits in many countries of the world. The disease was first recognized at the end of the 18th century in the USA.
Jelkmann, Wilhelm
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Topology and the Web of Twentieth Century Science [PDF]
Scientific communication is an essential part of modern science: whereas Archimedes worked alone, Newton (1676) acknowledged that "If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." How is scientific communication reflected in the patterns of citations in scientific papers?
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An age-related disease or a biocultural marker? Osteoarthritis of the foot in the Modern era Franciscan community of Azzio (17th-18th century BCE). [PDF]
Larentis O, Fusco R, Tesi C, Licata M.
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Globalization and Glassy Ideality of the Web of Twentieth Century Science [PDF]
Scientific communication is an essential part of modern science: whereas Archimedes worked alone, Newton (correspondence with Hooke, 1676) acknowledged that "If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." How is scientific communication reflected in the patterns of citations in scientific papers? How have these patterns
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Remnants from the Past: From an 18th Century Manuscript to 21st Century Ethnobotany in Valle Imagna (Bergamo, Italy). [PDF]
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