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Brunelleschi's mirror, Alberti's window, and Galileo's 'perspective tube' O espelho de Brunelleschi, a janela de Alberti e o 'tubo' de Galileu

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2006
This essay argues that the advent of linear perspective, ca. 1425, when Filippo Brunelleschi painted a small panel of the Florentine Baptistery by applying the geometric rules of optical mirror reflection, was more than just an artistic event. Indeed, it
Samuel Y. Edgerton
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Brick and Mortar, Paint and Metal: Architecture and Craft in Renaissance Florence and Beyond

open access: yesArchitectural Histories, 2023
It is well known that many figures who rose to prominence as architects were initially trained as sculptors, metalworkers, carvers or painters, from Filippo Brunelleschi, who first learned the goldsmith trade, to Andrea Palladio, who started his career ...
Livia Lupi
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Demonstração Geométrica á da Perspectiva Exata pelas Leis da Ótica

open access: yesPós: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP, 1995
Em prévios estudos sobre perspectiva, apresentamos um aparelho mais simples que aqueles descritos pelos discípulos de Brunelleschi e a ele atribuídos, com o qual foi possível deduzir empiricamente as leis fundamentais da perspectiva exata, como derivadas
Júlio Roberto Katinsky
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Mechanical Performances of Natural Textiles for Eco-Friendly Composite Materials: A Comparative Assessment

open access: yesFibers
In the last decades, composite materials made of synthetic fibers embedded in organic or inorganic matrices have been successfully used for strengthening reinforced-concrete and masonry buildings.
Gianfranco Stipo   +5 more
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«La penna l’ho lasciata a casa»: Letteratura e potere

open access: yesBetween, 2015
The current situation of the humanities, which have been resized both in university and in secondary education, seems to many the sign of a crisis that involves the role of literary knowledge, its social authority, the education of students and the ...
Cristina Nesi
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Impact of sex on diabetic nephropathy and the renal transcriptome in UNx db/db C57BLKS mice

open access: yesPhysiological Reports, Volume 7, Issue 24, December 2019., 2019
Despite evidence of sex‐associated differences in the progression of DN in human patients, male mice are predominantly being used in preclinical DN research and drug development. Here, we compared renal changes in male and female uninephrectomized (UNx) db/db C57BLKS mice.
Frederikke E. Sembach   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing children through observation practices: using art theory to re-think ways of looking at children.

open access: yesReconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 2011
This paper looks at methodological questions that are raised through the practice of observation to consider how researchers ‘keep an eye on the world’, and particularly how early years practitioners keep an eye on children.
Christina MacRae
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A Quantitative Genomic Approach for Analysis of Fitness and Stress Related Traits in a Drosophila melanogaster Model Population

open access: yesInternational Journal of Genomics, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016
The ability of natural populations to withstand environmental stresses relies partly on their adaptive ability. In this study, we used a subset of the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, a population of inbred, genome‐sequenced lines derived from a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster, to investigate whether this population harbors genetic ...
Palle Duun Rohde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Area Sustainability Analysis by Means of Integrated Microclimatic Measurement Techniques Combined with Thermal Comfort Modelling—A Pilot Project Application

open access: yesEnergies
Although the literature is rich in studies of indoor thermal comfort, there is a lack of research on outdoor thermal comfort, despite its importance in response to global warming and the rise of urban heat islands.
Giacomo Pierucci   +2 more
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The Safeguard of Audio Collections: A Computer Science Based Approach to Quality Control—The Case of the Sound Archive of the Arena di Verona

open access: yesAdvances in Multimedia, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
In the field of multimedia, very little attention is given to the activities involved in the preservation of audio documents. At the same time, more and more archives storing audio and video documents face the problem of obsolescing and degrading media, which could largely benefit from the instruments and the methodologies of research in multimedia ...
Federica Bressan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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