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Citare (e non) nei “Promessi Sposi”. Storia e invenzione [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2015 This essay aims to analyse citations as an intentional practice in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (1827 and 1840-1842); in particular, I look at explicit quotations in the narrator’s comments.
Corrado Viola
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Bairoch revisited. Tariff structure and growth in the late 19th century [PDF]
This paper revisits Bairoch’s hypothesis that tariffs were positively associated with growth in the late 19th century, as confirmed recently by a new generation of quantitative studies (see O`Rourke (2000), Jacks (2006) and Clements-Williamson (2002 ...
Antonio Tena Junguito
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli +6 more
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The Ascent of Man? Emil du Bois-Reymond's Reflections on Scientific Progress [PDF]
, 2000 Triumphalist histories of science are nothing new but were, in fact, a staple of the 19th century. This article considers one of the more famous works in the genre and argues that it was motivated by doubt more than by ...
Finkelstein, Gabriel
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The ray‐finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic knowledge of ray‐finned fishes between paleontologists working on extinct animals and neontologists studying extant species has obscured the ...
Jack Stack
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The Reception of Neptune’s Discovery in British and American Protestant Theology
Studia Historiae ScientiarumThe discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, first theoretically and then observationally, was a 19th-century event that went beyond the interests of the narrow group of astronomers of the time.
Zenon Roskal, Jacek Rodzeń
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A Thaddeus Stevens Musical: A 19th Century Hamilton?
, 2016 If you read my last post on the Broadway musical Hamilton, you’ve already read my waxing admiration of the show and might also remember that I listen to the soundtrack non-stop. The musical has shown the world the power that music has as a teaching tool.
McNish, Megan E.
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston +5 more
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