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The Cinderella tree, <i>Quillaja saponaria</i> - A soap story. [PDF]

open access: yesPlants People Planet
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Osbourn A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Renate Wagner-Rieger and Baroque Research in Croatia

open access: yesPeristil, 2022
The research of Renate Wagner-Rieger has influenced the whole Central European area, as well the development of art history in Croatia, especially architectural research.
Dubravka Botica
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History of History of Physics [PDF]

open access: yesActa Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2016
The twelve decades of modern academic history of physics have provided enough material for the study of the history of history of physics, the focus of which is the development of the opinions and methods of historians of physics.
Stanislav Južnič
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La mission d’Arménie des jésuites et la production des savoirs à la fin de l’Empire ottoman (1881-1914)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies, 2022
Jesuit members of the mission of Armenia established in 1881 at the initiative of pope Leo XIII were prolific scientific authors. Their apostolic work across central Anatolia, from Marsovan/Merzifon to Adana, provided them with the occasion to become ...
Philippe Bourmaud
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Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2022
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history
Francesco Borghesi   +3 more
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60-Minute Conversations with Jesuit History Series [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Jesuit Studies, 2017
In October 2016, Rev. David Neuhaus, S.J. delivered at the Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s Fifth Annual John Paul ii Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations. He is the patriarchal vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Israel. He is also the coordinator of the pastoral care for migrant workers and asylum seekers.
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Actual Problems of National Historiography of Cultural and Enlightening Activity of Jesuits in Belarus

open access: yesНаука и техника, 2004
Cultural and enlightening activity of Jesuits in Belarus has been studied as a rule by Belarussian scientists from the point of view of forced catholic spreading ideology.
T. I. Nareiko
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The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesModern Languages Open, 2014
My paper will examine figure of the Jesuit in nineteenth-century literature, a theme which evolves from my thesis on the image of Catholicism. The nineteenth century is of special interest in conjunction with the study of Russian attitudes to religion ...
Elizabeth Harrison
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Almas em busca da salvação: sensibilidade barroca no discurso jesuítico (século XVII)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de História, 2004
Para uma compreensão das reduções jesuítico-guaranis na perspectiva de uma história da sensibilidade, procedeu-se a uma releitura das Cartas Ânuas da Província Jesuítica do Paraguai, referentes ao período de 1609 a 1675.
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck
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