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Historical Notes: The Gravitational Constant [PDF]

open access: yesMathematics Today 58(4) (2022) 126-127, 2023
A brief account of the development of the concept of the gravitational constant and the debate around in in Britain at the end of the 19th century.
arxiv  

Book review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Jakab Máté: A 19. századi nyelvtudomány rövid története [A short history of linguistics in the 19th century]. Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1997, 216 pp.; Jakab Máté: A 20.
Cser, András
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Die Gefechte der Bibliografen mit der Zensur während der Besatzung Polens

open access: yesFolia Toruniensia, 2017
Während der Besatzung Polens wurden die bibliografischen Bearbeitungen, ähnlich wie alle anderen Druckschriften, der Zensur unterworfen, die die Verbreitung aller Art von patriotischen und unabhängigkeitsbezogenen Inhalte untersagen wollte.
Alicja Matczuk
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Albrecht Ritschl and the Tübingen School. A neglected link in the history of 19th century theology

open access: yes, 2011
The article starts by observing a parallel between the identification of Christ's humanity and universal human nature, for which Harnack repudiates some church fathers, and David Strauss' claim, in his Life of Jesus, that the subject of the Incarnation ...
J. Zachhuber
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Guido Castelnuovo e la matematica a Roma tra Risorgimento e Belle Epoque [PDF]

open access: yesRendiconti di Matematica e delle Sue Applicazioni, 2016
Guido Castelnuovo is one of the mathematicians who gave eminence to the school of mathematics of Rome. The many twines between his life, the history of the country, the history of the city, and the developments of mathematics in Italy are the object of ...
Enrico Rogora
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The worldwide impact of Donati's comet on art and society in the mid-19th century [PDF]

open access: yesIAU Symp. 260, 2011, p. 340-345, 2012
Donati's comet was one of the most impressive astronomical events of the nineteenth century. Its extended sword-like tail was a spectacular sight that inspired several literary and artistic representations. Traces of Donati's comet are found in popular magazines, children's books, collection cards, and household objects through the beginning of the ...
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Worlds out of nothing: a course in the history of geometry in the 19th Century

open access: yes, 2007
Worlds Out of Nothing is the first book to provide a course on the history of geometry in the 19th century. Based on the latest historical research, the book is aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics but will also appeal to
J. Gray
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Book: On the History of Lunacy: The 19th Century and After

open access: yesBMJ, 1999
Edward H Hare Gabbay, pp 176 ISBN 0953269906 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] History, to quote Voltaire, is a trick the living play on the dead. All too often the trick involves myths about the past being used to buttress current theories or practices.
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Epilepsy in the history of Europe in the 19th century

open access: yesNeurology Bulletin, 2020
Epilepsy, or epilepsy, belongs to the number of very common nervous diseases and without doubt, I have even seen seizures with which it manifests itself: a man, apparently completely healthy, suddenly cries out and, as if struck by some mysterious force, without consciousness falls to the ground; terrible convulsions engulf his entire body; foam near ...
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Writing History: 19th Century African American Activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Our work in this course will center around two questions. First, what were the material and social conditions for Black men, women, and children living in the territory that would become the United States, from roughly 1750 until on or about 1860?
Charles Gleek
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