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On the history of negative and complex numbers interpretation [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The history of the development of the concept of complex numbers from the 16th to 19th centuries. The origin and refinement of the geometric and physical meaning of complex numbers, the emergence of vectoral analysis.
arxiv
Convicts, Carcerality and Cape Colony Connections in the 19th Century
, 2016 This article examines the ways in which the 19th-century Cape Colony was connected to other locations in Britain and the British imperial world with respect to the history of imprisonment and penal transportation.
Clare Anderson
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Beer Depots of Brewery Princes Kinský in Choceň in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Kvasný průmysl, 2016 The article describes the history of Beer Depots of Princes Kinsky´s Brewery in Choceň in the second half of the 19th century in towns Vysoké Mýto, Litomyšl, Brno and Vídeň (Vienna).
Michal Hofman
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Some notes on the impact of Lagrange's memoir "On the construction of geographical maps" [PDF]
In: Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler,
Lagrange and Lambert (ed. R. Caddeo and A. Papadopoulos), Springer, 2022, 2023 These are notes on the impact of Lagrange's memoir on the construction of geographical maps. We mention the relations of some ideas and questions introduced in this memoir with other notions that appeared later in the works of several mathematicians, including in particular Chebyshev (19th c.) and Darboux (19th-20th c.), two mathematicians who were ...
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A Brief History of the Literature on Postmortem Changes to the 19th Century [PDF]
Academic Forensic Pathology, 2016 The fact that the body changes following death must have been known for the whole history of mankind. But myth and superstition surrounded the changes. This led to such entities as the ordeal of the bier being used as criminal proof, even though other forms of trial by ordeal had long been abandoned.
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The Families of Wentworth Point (1850s-1900s) [PDF]
, 2014 This is a history of the people of Wentworth Point in Walpole, Maine in the 19th century. This is a history of the Wentworth families, Kelsey families, Hutchings families, and the Merrill family at this place in the 19th century, and of their farms and ...
Lackovic, Randy
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, 1980 The calculus of variations is a subject whose beginning can be precisely dated. It might be said to begin at the moment that Euler coined the name calculus of variations but this is, of course, not the true moment of inception of the subject.
H. Goldstine
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Ill-Fame on Blackberry Alley: Prostitution and Sport in 19th-Century Philadelphia [PDF]
, 2016 The 19th century offers a view of prostitution in a time of its open celebration. A remarkably permissive attitude towards sex work defies conventional understandings of “Victorian prudery” and makes for a fascinating period of American sexual history ...
Korostoff, Thomson
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Acta Neophilologica, 2013 This article focuses on the life and creative path of the Carniolian polymath,many-faceted researcher, historian, German specialist, and theater specialist Peter von Radics (1836-1912), who was born in Postojna (Adelsberg) but did not have Carniolan ...
Tanja Žigon
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The Families of Wentworth Point (1840s-1850s) [PDF]
, 2014 This is a history of the people of Wentworth Point in Walpole, Maine in the 19th century. This is a history of the Wentworth families, Kelsey families, Hutchings families, and the Merrill family at this place in the 19th century, and of their farms and ...
Lackovic, Randy
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