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Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence
RIDE, 2017 The Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence (EE), under the directorship of Robert McNamee and made available on a subscription basis by Oxford University Press, is a text collection of over 70,000 individual letters (written between
Mark J. Hill
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The importance of science communication and public engagement to professional associations
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Scientists have gathered in professional associations to promote science to the public. The American Association for Anatomy (AAA) has invested resources in programs to promote anatomical sciences to the public (high school level via the Anato‐Bee; all levels via Anatomy nights) and train scientists how to talk to the public (SciComm Bootcamp ...
Martine Dunnwald +2 more
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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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ChemPlusChem, EarlyView.First analytical evidence and replication of yet undescribed substantial change in gilding technology in the early modern period ‐ the replacement of imported red clay (bole) with locally available bauxite. Proof of its source ‐ Croatian Minjera, according to a unique find of mineral diaspore.
David Hradil +3 more
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, 2006 In Paris there is no experience more enchanting than wandering along the Seine on an Autumn afternoon, stopping every now and then to rifle through the stands of a bookiniste, only to discover a treasure: a 17th century map, a book of poems by Jacques ...
Pike, Deborah J
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Constructing Spaces, Deconstructing Meaning: An Examination of Architecture and Labor at a 17th-Century New Mexican Ranch [PDF]
, 2021 There are few archaeological studies of the architecture of 17th-century New Mexican ranches (estancias) due to the paucity of surviving examples. Even fewer archaeological treatments of architecture from 17th-century New Mexico consider the cost of ...
Albert, Katherine A.
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ChemPlusChem, EarlyView.Hungarian mine green, a pigment precipitated from drainage water containing basic copper sulfates and carbonates, represented an important product for painters with the peak of its production in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Banská Bystrica region (Slovakia).
Markéta Žůrková +4 more
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“Wheat of Portugal” . The African adventure of maize
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2013 This work focuses on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and starts from the introduction of maize (Zea mays) in different places of Africa by the Portuguese.
Manuel de Paz-Sánchez
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A freshman seminar: energy -- the history of a concept [PDF]
, 2018 This new freshman honors seminar, to be first offered in Spring 2019, uses the development of the concept of energy from the 17th to the 20th century to combine the teaching of both scientific inquiry and intellectual history.
Hughes, W.
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17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox [PDF]
Current Biology, 2016 Smallpox holds a unique position in the history of medicine. It was the first disease for which a vaccine was developed and remains the only human disease eradicated by vaccination. Although there have been claims of smallpox in Egypt, India, and China dating back millennia [1-4], the timescale of emergence of the causative agent, variola virus (VARV),
G. Brian Golding +22 more
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