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Framboidal pyrites in antique books
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ink was commonly manufactured by mixing tannin with iron sulphates. The anoxic environment inside ancient books favours the reduction of the sulphate in the ink and allows spherical aggregates (framboids) of submicrometre-sized pyrite crystals (iron sulphide) to be formed.
García-Guinea, Javier +3 more
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or, Using Human Skins in Books Binding: A historical study [PDF]
This study discuss the history of ‘Book Binding Phenomenon’ which meanthat using human skin in binding books. This Phenomenon has been appeared,virtually, during the 16th century, began in the 19th century and had disappearedat the beginning of the 20th ...
د. حامد معروف الزیات
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Author in The Monuments of Late Antique Christian Hagiography [PDF]
The paper deals with the problem of authorship in the monuments of Late Antique hagiography, namely “The Life of St. Anthony the Great” written by Athanasius of Alexandria, and “The Lausiac History” by Palladius of Helenopolis.
Alexandra S. Balakhovskaya
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CLAUDIAN, DE RAPTU PROSERPINAE 1.82 AND GEORGICS 3.68 [PDF]
Identification & analysis of an imitation of Virgil's Georgics in Claudian, De Raptu ...
Cillian O'Hogan
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He Almost Forgets That There is a Maker of the World
What can jewishness be — a nation, a race, a religion, a style of humor? A history of diaspora? A relation to whiteness? A commandment to work for justice? Where is jewishness in the body? In this illuminated video essay, 30 minutes of uncut experimental
Agnieszka Mendel +3 more
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Curiosities, erudition and the love of monuments in Fioravante Martinelli’s Roma ricercata (1644)This essay discusses the guidebooks to Rome produced in the 1640s by Fioravante Martinelli.
Enrico Parlato
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Beyond the papyrus. The writing materials of Christian Egypt before the tenth century: ostraca, wooden tablets and parchment [PDF]
Survey of the writing supports of late antique Egyptian books, with particular attention to parchment, ostraca and wodden ...
BUZI, Paola
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ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Abstract Existing circular economy (CE) research has primarily explored capabilities for the principle of closing resource loops (recycle and recover) in limited institutional contexts. However, little is known about the capabilities for the principle of slowing resource loops (reduce and reuse), despite its alignment towards achieving net zero ...
Savu Rovanto, Yuan Virtanen
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