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From Valverde to Kulmus: Tracing the Western origins of Kaitai Shinsho's frontispiece design in early modern Japanese medicine [PDF]

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 415-419, April 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original design,
Chuan‐Hang Yu, Toshihide Sato
wiley   +2 more sources

Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 203-226, October 2025.
How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
André de Melo Araújo
wiley   +2 more sources

On the manipulation, and meaning(s), of color in food: A historical perspective

open access: yesJournal of Food Science, Volume 88, Issue S1, Page A5-A20, March 2023., 2023
Abstract While there has long been public concern over the use of artificial/synthetic food colors, it should be remembered that food and drink products (e.g., red wine) have been purposefully colored for millennia. This narrative historical review highlights a number of reasons that food and drink have been colored, including to capture the shopper's ...
Charles Spence
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing different machine‐learning techniques to date Nile Delta sediments based on portable X‐ray fluorescence data

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 57-75, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Geomorphology generally aims to describe and investigate the processes that lead to the formation of landscapes, while geochronology is needed to detect their timing and duration. Due to restrictions on exporting geological samples from Egypt, modern geoscientific studies in the Nile Delta lack the possibility of dating the investigated ...
Martin Seeliger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genealogical Links in Samogitian Nobility Heraldry Sources in the Second Half of the 16th–18th Centuries

open access: yesBibliotheca Lituana, 2019
Heraldry and its research have deep traditions in Europe, making it a certain focus of attention among researchers. The interest in this field in Lithuania is a more recent phenomenon.
Gabrielė Jasiūnienė
doaj   +1 more source

Wynkyn de Worde, Stephen Hawes, and the improvisation of genre in early sixteenth‐century English poetry

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 252-277, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The printing of the poems of the early Tudor poet Stephen Hawes (c.1474–before 1529) by the London printer Wynkyn de Worde (d. 1534/5) is the earliest example of the sustained publication of a contemporary English poet by a single printer. This article considers de Worde’s printing of Hawes, in a flurry around 1509 and then at intervals of ...
Laurie Atkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Color Symbolism in the Blazoning of National Heraldry (Linguistic and Cultural Aspects) [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики
The purpose of the article is to study the semantics and role of color symbols in the verbal description of national heraldry, and its relevance is due to the current trend towards an increase in the number of independent states with their own national ...
Sergey G. Vorkachev, Elena A. Vorkacheva
doaj   +1 more source

Civic Heraldry: Loudoun County, Virginia

open access: yes, 2022
This is a continuation of a series discussing the civic and organizational heraldry of places in the United States. This essay discusses the civic heraldry for Loudoun County, Virginia.
Mark Murawski (12047984)
core   +1 more source

The Invention of Tradition: Illyrian Heraldry

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2010
The “Illyrian heraldry”, as a phenomenon of the invented tradition, encompasses the rolls of arms - armorials, which appear in Dalmatia, Italy, Spain and Austria at the end of the XVI and beginning of the XVII century.
Aleksandar Palavestra
doaj   +1 more source

Japanese Heraldry of Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama Periods

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
The paper focused on main trends of Japanese heraldry’ development in the Muromachi (1333-1573) and Azuchi-Momoyama (1573-1603) periods. In the XIV-XVI centuries number of heraldic symbols vastly increased, thousands of people from aristocracy and other ...
A. Rechkalova
doaj  

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