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A sensibilidade do diafragma em Diderot: um paradoxo do paradoxo
The reference to the diaphragm organ indicates a specific kind of sensibility. This meaning coexists with others in some of the most important writings of Diderot’s late work: Rêve de d'Alembert (1769), Éléments de physiologie (≈1782), Réfutation d ...
Clara Carnicero de Castro
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The logic of life in Maupertuis: from Newtonian attraction to psychobiological determinism
After successfully relaunching the epigenetic theory of generation, reinterpreted in the light of Newtonian attraction and chemical affinities ("Vénus physique", 1745), Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) deepened his theoretical investigations
Federico Focher
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Sweet Corrosion Inhibition by CO2 Capture
The most practical and economical way to combat the problems derived from CO2 corrosion (sweet corrosion) is the use of corrosion inhibitors of organic origin.
Jesus Porcayo-Calderon +3 more
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Figures de (dé)rangement : de quelques tropes relationnels chez Jacques Delille
Dans L’Homme des champs (1800) et Les Trois Règnes de la nature (1808), Jacques Delille établit de multiples parallèles entre des êtres qui lui semblent occuper des places diamétralement opposées sur des échelles de valeur hétéroclites, ses critères de ...
Hugues Marchal
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Duas concepções de estado de natureza: Rousseau e Buffon
Em muitos textos, Buffon mostra-se partidário da ideia da existência de um laço conjugal natural entre homem e mulher, retomando, assim, as concepções de Locke sobre o assunto. Por sua vez, Rousseau surge como um grande crítico desta ideia.
Mauro Dela Bandera Arco Júnior
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Historia natural y temporalización: consideraciones sobre la Historia natural de Buffon
Presenta una relectura de la Historia natural de Buffon a la luz de los conceptos de reversibilidad e irreversibilidad temporal. El objetivo es determinar hasta qué punto Buffon introduce en dicha obra una concepción transformista de las formas naturales.
María Verónica Galfione
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On Buffon Machines and Numbers [PDF]
The well-know needle experiment of Buffon can be regarded as an analog (i.e., continuous) device that stochastically "computes" the number 2/pi ~ 0.63661, which is the experiment's probability of success.
Flajolet, Philippe +2 more
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This paper contributes to the on-going research into the ways in which the humanities transformed the natural sciences in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. By investigating the relationship between hermeneutics -- as developed by Herder
Abu Zayd +418 more
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The Collaboration ‘manqué:’ Petrus Camper’s Son at Montbard, 1785-1787
The Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper (1722-1789) was pleased that Buffon wanted to co-write a book on the natural history of whales. His son, Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759-1820), who was studying in Paris, went to Montbard to discuss this project ...
Miriam Claude Meijer
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Inhibition of X52 Corrosion in CO2-Saturated Brine by a Dialkyl-Diamide from Coffee Bagasse Oil
This work reports the performance of a green corrosion inhibitor with double hydrocarbon chain. The evaluated inhibitor was a dialkyl-diamide from coffee bagasse oil and its electrochemical behavior was evaluated on an API-X52 steel in CO2-saturated ...
N. B. Gomez-Guzman +4 more
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