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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury
New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1102, Page 857-872, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things, truth exists in things also.
Catherine Pickstock
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Searching for the Routes of Philosophy: Marsilio Ficino on Heraclitus
Mediterranea, 2019 Marsilio Ficino is well known for his efforts to expand the philosophical canon of his time. He exhibited great interest in Platonism and Neoplatonism, but also endeavoured to recover understudied philosophical traditions of the ancient world.
Georgios Steiris
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Praxis Filosófica, 2019 El presente artículo tiene como objeto de estudio la interpretación que Marsilio Ficino ha propuesto del poema Donna me prega de Guido Cavalcanti.
Fabián Ludueña -Romandini
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The Life and Works of Luca Pacioli (1446/7–1517), Humanist Educator
Abacus, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 126-152, March 2021., 2021 Accounting has few heroes, but one that most acknowledge as worthy of that accolade is Luca Pacioli, the man who published the first printed exposition of double entry bookkeeping in 1494. This was the publication that led to the development of the accounting systems we use today. However, if we consider our literature on Pacioli, it is found to be not
Alan Sangster
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The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy
, 2023 Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 5-24, July 2023.
Angus Gowland
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Una disputa sobre la amistad: Ficino y Pico
Medievalia, 2016 Una disputa sobre la amistad: Ficino y Pico.
Teresa Rodríguez
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East Meets West: The New Gnoseology in Giordano Bruno and Wang Yangming
Religions, 2022 This study examines the various explanations of the deliberative humanity, regarding a new gnoseology in the intellectual contexts of Giordano Bruno and Wang Yangming during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Zheng Wang
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