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Disinformation by Proponents of Perkins’ Patent “Metallick Tractors” (1798–1806) to Sway Public Opinion in Britain in Favor of a Fraudulent Therapy

open access: yesHistories
In 1796, American physician Elisha Perkins patented “metallick Tractors” for the treatment of various ailments, particularly those associated with pain.
Douglas J. Lanska
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Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800

open access: yesRIDE, 2020
The digital edition “Briefe und Texte aus dem intellektuellen Berlin um 1800” collects letters and texts depicting the intellectual life of the early 19th century Berlin.
Sascha Grabsch
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Surface Value: Ways of Seeing Decoration in Architecture

open access: yesArchitectural Histories, 2021
The long 18th century was a period of intense investment in elite architecture in Britain which sustained an extensive craft culture in carving, modelling, and joinery. Yet decoration is largely marginalised or ignored by architectural historians.
Christine Casey
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Automated Feature Extraction and Classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets in the Puck Lagoon via Multisensor Remote Sensing

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a strong framework for the detection and classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets (SCHA) in shallow marine environments using the integration of multibeam echosounder and airborne LiDAR bathymetry with object‐based image analysis and fuzzy logic–based classification.
Łukasz Janowski   +4 more
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Counterpoint Battles in the 18th Century Naples: an Attempt of Historical Reconstruction

open access: yesСовременные проблемы музыкознания, 2021
The article examines an underscrutinised polyphonic tradition formed in the 18th century Naples. This period is often associated with the heyday of Naples opera.
Anastasia I. Maslova
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Open Learning Environment in Early Modern Low Countries History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This project, part of the individual strand of JISC’s and the Higher Education Academy’s Open Educational Resources pilot programme, will turn a comprehensive survey course in Early Modern Low Countries history, from the late Middle Ages to the end of ...
Tiedau, U
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Comparing the correlation length of grain markets in China and France

open access: yes, 2000
In economics comparative analysis plays the same role as experimental research in physics. In this paper we closely examine several methodological problems related to comparative analysis by investigating the specific example of grain markets in China ...
BERTRAND M. ROEHNER   +4 more
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The rise of informed consent and retreat from dependence upon unclaimed bodies in anatomy: An overview and assessment

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Violência e insubordinação militar na São Paulo do século XVIII:manuscritos como testemunho de uma sociedade

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2009
The present article gives an overview of the social historical and philologic contexts (from contrast of two certifications of a criminal proceeding) of three documentsof the18th century, pertaining to colonial documents on the captainship of São ...
Renata Ferreira Costa
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3. Etienne Clavière et l’affirmation d’un républicanisme cosmopolite dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2022
An unknown figure in the history of the second half of the 18th century, Etienne Clavière (1735-1793) nonetheless occupies a major place in the political and legal circulation of the republican ideal.
Mathieu Chaptal
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