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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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Promoting health equity through linguistic justice: mitigating embedded bias of large language models. [PDF]
NPJ Digit MedHan W, Richardson S, Zhu J, Liu Y.
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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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INTERFACES ENTRE A POESIA ÉPICA, O ROMANCE E O ROMANCEIRO EM PARATEXTOS DO SÉCULO XIX
Revista Brasileira de Literatura ComparadaNos começos do Romantismo, o romance, no sentido de poema narrativo longo de matriz medieval, será tomado como modelo para a renovação literária. Contudo, ainda que o foco das atenções recaia sobre o romance, que na Península é relacionado à tradição ...
Marcos Machado Nunes
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Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature. [PDF]
Evol Hum SciKestemont M +4 more
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‘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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Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]
Adv Matervon Contzen E +3 more
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Has pedagogy, technology, and Covid-19 killed the face-to-face lecture? [PDF]
Anat Sci Educ, 2022 Evans DJR.
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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