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Le Journal de Hendrik Hamel en Corée (1668) : Un savoir accidentel
Viatica, 2017 Surprisingly, it is thanks to a shipwreck that new knowledge about Korea, a country closed to Europeans, was constituted. Indeed, Hendrik Hamel, who ran aground on the coast of Cheju in 1653, where he remained a prisoner for thirteen years, wrote on the ...
Alain Génétiot
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Storicamente, 2016 Diane de Poitiers never stopped protecting creators and inspiring artists. But long after her role as patron, protector, and model during her lifetime, she continued to inspire the creators by becoming a "paper creature".
Nathalie Grande
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Sex determination in mythology and history [PDF]
, 2005 The history of ideas on how the sexes became divided spans at least three thousand years. The biblical account of the origin of Eve, and the opinions of the philosophers of classical Greece, have unexpected bearings on present-day ideas.
Mittwoch, U
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Noctua, 2023 This contribution aims to present the different philosophical interpretations of Descartes and Cartesian philosophies in the 17th century within the Revue Internationale de Philosophie.
Diego Donna
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From an Old Ballad to a Minor Opera. Benjamin Britten’s ‘The Golden Vanity: A vaudeville for boys and piano after the old English ballad’ [PDF]
, 2015 The article presents a little known opera (a ‘vaudeville’) of Benjamin Britten entitled The Golden Vanity (1966). The article presents the history of creation of the opera at the request of the Vienna Boys’ Choir singers, the history of the 17th century ...
Krzysztof Fordonski
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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The Catalonia of the 10th to 12th centuries and the historiographic definition of feudalism [PDF]
, 2010 The historiographic evolution of the concept of feudalism, from its formulation in the 17th century until today, has affected Catalonia differently. In the last quarter of the 20th century, it reached a prominent position as a paradigm of the mutationist
Flocel Sabaté
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Work Versus Force: Simultaneous Processes for Describing Interactions
Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving a unified description of interactions remains an open challenge in theoretical physics, which currently describes four fundamental forces. This situation may be viewed differently when interactions are formulated in terms of processes (work as actio) rather than forces (force as actio), not only at the macroscopic level but also at ...
Grit Kalies +2 more
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The Twelve Years Truce (1609). Peace, Truce, War, and Law in the Low Countries at the Turn of the 17th Century [PDF]
, 2015 Book review of LESAFFER (Randall), ed., The Twelve Years Truce (1609) : peace, truce, war, and law in the Low Countries at the turn of the 17th century, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2014, IX + 297 p.
Dhondt, Frederik
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli +6 more
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