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From Valverde to Kulmus: Tracing the Western origins of Kaitai Shinsho's frontispiece design in early modern Japanese medicine [PDF]
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
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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century [PDF]
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
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On the manipulation, and meaning(s), of color in food: A historical perspective
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
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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
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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
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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
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Color Symbolism in the Blazoning of National Heraldry (Linguistic and Cultural Aspects) [PDF]
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
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Civic Heraldry: Loudoun County, Virginia
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)
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The Invention of Tradition: Illyrian Heraldry
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
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Japanese Heraldry of Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama Periods
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
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