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Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 527-534, December 2023., 2023 Summary Monarda punctata, the spotted bee‐balm or dotted horsemint, is illustrated from plants growing in the North American Prairie planting at Wakehurst Place; its history, ecology, pollination and cultivation are described.
Martyn Rix, Christabel King
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An Unpublished Autograph Letter from Sir Philip Sidney to Carolus Clusius, 21 April 1576
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 535-546, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Only a decade ago Roger Kuin's The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney (2012) offered scholars for the first time a complete edition of Sidney's correspondence. Kuin modestly allowed room for new discoveries, in the hope that additional letters might be identified.
Thomas Matthew Vozar
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 88, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 A metal worker's laboratory: from Georg Agricola, De re Metallica, Libri XII, Basel, 1556, illustrating a reverberatory oven similar to what Carl Wenzel would have used to divide his metals in the 1770s. This Perspective essay discusses Wenzel, who was a chemist and an alchemist with deep knowledge of acids, bases and salts, and he was credited with ...
Curt Wentrup
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Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth‐Century Pocketbook
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 113-133, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Eighteenth‐century medical literature recommended that women record their menstrual cycles to identify dates of conception, measure gestation, and predict delivery. Women's pocketbooks were natural repositories of such pregnancy‐related data. This article charts the history of women's pocketbooks providing printed affordances for menstruation,
Helen Williams
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The linguistic characterisation of Galdós’s characters in his last play, Santa Juana de Castilla
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 45-58, February 2023., 2023 Abstract In this work I propose to examine the linguistic characterisation of the characters in Galdós’s last play, Santa Juana de Castilla (Saint Joanna of Castile, 1918). The analysis will show that in addition to the use of archaic language, the purpose of which may be to evoke the era, the linguistic style of the play is characterised by the use of
Miguel Á. Perdomo‐Batista
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 1198-1212, November/December 2022., 2022 Abstract The aim of this study was assessing the prevalence of os trigonum, talo‐calcaneal facets, and squatting facet variations among pre‐Hispanic individuals (around 940 ± 30 bp) placed in the collective burial cave of Punta Azul (El Hierro, Canary Islands), and to assess whether prevalence differed among sexes.
Samuel James Cockerill +7 more
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Epistemics of the soul: Epistemic logics in German 18th‐century empirical psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 383-403, Fall 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines epistemic logics in 18th‐century German empirical psychology and distinguishes three basic patterns at play throughout the century. First, as empirical psychology was introduced in the 1720s, it relied on the Aristotelian‐scholastic conception of experience as universal and evidently true propositions of how things ...
Andreas Rydberg
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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British Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 179, Issue 19, Page 4655-4672, October 2022., 2022 Background and Purpose Recent evidence links brain insulin resistance with neurodegenerative diseases, where hyperphosphorylated tau protein contributes to neuronal cell death. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate if d‐pinitol inositol, which acts as an insulin sensitizer, affects the phosphorylation status of tau protein.
Dina Medina‐Vera +12 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022 Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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