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

Plants 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.
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Jesuits Open Japan for Europe (1542‒1597) [PDF]

Современная Европа, 2022
The middle of the 15th century in Europe was the beginning of geographical discovery, colonial conquest and slavery. In 1441 the Portuguese Antão Gonçalves seized slaves in Africa as a gift to Prince Henry the Navigator.
Mikhail Nosov
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Jezuitski kemiki v Habsburški monarhiji

Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2016
Opisani so dosežki jezuitov iz Avstrijske in Češke province, ki so objavljali knjige o kemiji. Posebej so izpostavljene njihove povezave z območjem današnje Slovenije.
Stanislav Jože Južnič
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Jezuitska kemija v Ljubljani (Jesuit Chemistry in Ljubljana)

Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2015
Opisani sta dve stoletji jezuitskih predavanj kemijskih vsebin v Ljubljani s poudarkom na 17. stoletju. Prvič so podani dosežki vodilnih začetnikov kemije, ki so tedaj delovali v Ljubljani.
Stanislav Jože Južnič
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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Robert Aleksander Maryks, and Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, eds, Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, Brill 2018: reviewed by Elisa Frei

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2021
Review of Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, Eds Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Robert Aleksander Maryks, and Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018)
Elisa Frei
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Jesuit Libraries

, 2023
The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture as part of early modern European evangelization.
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The Kalksburg Jesuit Secondary Grammar School And Its Polish Pupils (1856–1938)

Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 2020
Founded in 1856, the Kalksburg Jesuit Secondary Grammar School quickly became the signature school of the Habsburg Monarchy, as it was particularly popular among the aristocracy and lower nobility.
Magdolna Rébay
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Response to Professor Feldmeier

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
Professor Feldmeier’s thoughtful response provides a useful context for considering both Lomellini’s work and the undertakings of seventeenth century Jesuits more generally. Jesuits such as De Nobili and Ricci were exceptional and deeply engaged with the
Paul John Shore
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Trójwymiarowa retoryka. Bramy triumfalne z okazji koronacji obrazu Matki Boskiej Trockiej w świetle okolicznościowego druku z 1719 r.

Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2022
Three-dimensional rhetoric. Triumphal gates for the coronation of Our Lady of Trokai painting in the light of the occasional print from 1719 --- The article was inspired by the jubilee of the coronation of Our Lady of Trokai, origined in Lithuania.
Elwira Buszewicz
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The Perception of the Jesuits in the Portuguese World: between the Trade of and the Taste of «Orientalia» (16th-17th centuries)

Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 2018
The Jesuits became reputed commissioners of orientalia, during the 16th and the 17th centuries. Their commission of orientalia included exotica, rarita, and naturalia.
Cristina Osswald
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