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Hugh Miller: stonemason, geologist, writer [PDF]

, 2007
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason’s apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader.
Taylor, Michael A
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INOCENCIO III (1198–1216) Y LA UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM [1203 → 1917/1983/1990] [PDF]

Vergentis. Revista de Investigación de la Cátedra Internacional Conjunta Inocencio III, 2016
As we know, in the classic Latin, the Middle ages and the Modern age, the adjective universitas refers to a group of goods (universitates rerum) or persons (universitates personarum).
Fernando Betancourt–Serna
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Spain. 19th century

, 2022
The history of translation in 19th century Spain is characterized above all by the fact that it was a period of transition between the concept of translation effective prevalent in the 18th century – restricted to the country's cultural elites – and the contemporary concept, which developed mainly from the second half of the 19th century onwards and ...
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Did Lobachevsky Have A Model Of His "imaginary Geometry"? [PDF]

, 2010
The invention of non-Euclidean geometries is often seen through the optics of Hilbertian formal axiomatic method developed later in the 19th century. However such an anachronistic approach fails to provide a sound reading of Lobachevsky's geometrical ...
Rodin, Andrei
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Theatre-Fiction in 19th Century France

Acta Neophilologica
In his Writing in the Wings, Graham Wolf introduces theatre-fiction as a complex intermedial genre focusing on its agents, and “stages, or other performance spaces for dominant settings” (4).
Javid Aliyev
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century US White Statures [PDF]

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort.
Scott A. Carson
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Voices: Silences and Sexuality in 19th-Century Women's Slave Narratives [PDF]

, 2020
In my paper, I look at the connections between silences and sexuality in 19th-century women's slave narratives, focusing on Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a ...
Rahman, Sarah
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Globalization, Convergence and History [PDF]

There were three epochs of growth experience after the mid 19th century for what is now called the OECD 'club'; the late 19th century, the middle years between 1914 and 1950, and the late 20th century.
Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Los Ayllón Altolaguirre: manera de ser jurista en la España decimonónica

Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, 2005
Miguel y Emilio Ayllón Altolaguirre fueron juristas que ejercieron su profesión en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX; Miguel fue abogado y Emilio juez, autores ambos de una corta pero interesante obra.
Jesús Vallejo Fernández de la Reguera
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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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