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Toward a Holistic, Intercultural, and Polyphonic Perspective on Health Care: A Brief Prologue to the Paper Titled “Understanding the Personalistic Aspects of Jola Ethnomedicine.” [PDF]

, 2017
As a prologue to the paper titled “Understanding the Personalistic Aspects of Jola Ethnomedicine,” the present essay provides a brief anthropologico-philosophical reflection, starting with classic Roman philosopher Seneca and his dictum that “each ...
Baptista, Fernando Paulo
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Orbital motions of astronomical bodies and their Centre of Mass from different reference frames: a conceptual step between the Geocentric and Heliocentric models

, 2016
The motion of astronomical bodies and the centre of mass of the system is not always well perceived by students. One of the struggles is the conceptual change of reference frame, which is the same that held back the acceptance of the Heliocentric model ...
Carvalho, Paulo Simeão, Guerra, André G C   +1 more
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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
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Uma História Global antes da Globalização? Circulação e espaços conectados na Idade Média

Revista de História, 2020
A História Global costuma ser definida como a análise da globalização econômica, cultural, tecnológica, bem como dos processos que lhe são associados: a emergência de uma sociedade de consumo planetária, a exploração do espaço, a ameaça nuclear, os ...
Marcelo Cândido da Silva
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Em Busca do Homo Globalis: Testando os Limites da História Global

Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais
O artigo propõe um mapeamento e reflexão acerca da trajetória da disciplina denominada de História Global, com ênfase em seus fundamentos teórico-metodológicos e empíricos.
Hugo Rogelio Suppo , Carlos Domínguez
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Para uma leitura da obra do Prof. Joaquim Ferreira Gomes [PDF]

, 1998
Joaquim Ferreira Gomes nasceu a 18 de outubro de 1928 na freguesia do Olival, concelho de Vila Nova de Gaia; o 3.º de seis irmãos, cinco rapazes e uma rapariga; fez os estudos primários na Escola Primária do Olival e os estudos secundários em Braga ...
Meireles-Coelho, Carlos
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Money, prices, wages, and ‘profit inflation’ in Spain, the Southern Netherlands, and England during the Price Revolution era, ca. 1520 - ca. 1650 [PDF]

This article re-examines Earl Hamilton’s famous 1929 thesis on ‘Profit Inflation’ and the ‘birth of modern industrial capitalism’: namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus ...
Munro, John H.
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A Natividade Nunes da Silva : carpetes, colchas, tapetes e linhos de Belver : de manufatura a unidade de memória [PDF]

, 2015
Dissertação de Mestrado, Património, Museologia e Desenvolvimento, 12 de Novembro de 2015, Universidade dos Açores.Esta dissertação resulta de uma abordagem multidisciplinar, reunindo metodologias emprestadas de diversas ciências socias, de modo a obter ...
Neto, José Luís Pereira Santos Gonçalves
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