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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Confucian reflections on the new reproductive model of ROPA. [PDF]

Bioethics
Ma Y, Chen H, Muyskens K.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Experts' perspectives on allergic reactions to emerging food sources, pollen and insects. [PDF]

Allergol Select
Faust L, Dölle-Bierke S, Höfer V, Worm M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Global proliferation of nonnative plants is a major driver of insect invasions. [PDF]

Bioscience
Bertelsmeier C, Bonnamour A, Brockerhoff EG, Pyšek P, Skuhrovec J, Richardson DM, Liebhold AM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Jorumycidine, a hexacyclic bis-tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloid from marine symbiosis reveals new biosynthetic logic for anticancer design. [PDF]

Commun Chem
Nuzzo G, Quaini G, Albiani F, Gallo C, Landi S, Carbone D, Pescitelli G, Castiglia D, Manzo E, d'Ippolito G, Fontana A.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“The future of death in the present of love”: Eros as an ethical pas encore in Levinas's Totality and Infinity

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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