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Quando a fotografia (já) fazia os antropólogos sonharem: O jornal La Lumière (1851-1860)

open access: yesRevista de Antropologia, 2001
Na efervescente metade do século XIX, marcada pela febre da ordem e do progresso, da racionalidade e das luzes, os antropólogos-naturalistas franceses descobrem, ao lado de muitos outros cientistas, as possibilidades heurísticas que a fotografia ...
Étienne Samain
doaj   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Logic: Locke and the Nature of Inference

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can animals reason? If so, what would their reasoning consist in, and how, if at all, would it differ from its human counterpart? On these questions, John Locke stakes out a position that also merits consideration today. I argue that, for Locke, reasoning is a matter of the subject's construing her mental states as support for a conclusion ...
Walter Ott
wiley   +1 more source

Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aqui Posto de Comando do Movimento das Forças Armadas: A Rádio-Voz da Liberdade

open access: yesComunicação e Sociedade
Nos 50 anos do 25 de Abril de 1974, em Portugal, a rádio traz à memória os primeiros sons da liberdade. A escolha da rádio para veículo de transmissão não foi por acaso e várias razões podem explicar esta opção.
Helena Lima, Ana Isabel Reis
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

Biomarcadores Sanguíneos em Doença de Alzheimer: Ponto de Situação e Considerações Práticas

open access: yesGazeta Médica
A doença de Alzheimer é entendida hoje como uma entidade clínico-biológica cuja caracterização deverá levar em conta a utilização de biomarcadores. Até recentemente, o uso de biomarcadores obrigava a realização de punção lombar ou à realização de PET. O
Rui Araújo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

Preços de escravos em Campinas no século XIX

open access: yesHistória Econômica & História de Empresas, 2017
O artigo tem por objetivo interpretar o movimento dos preços dos escravos pertencentes à escravaria de alguns grandes proprietários de Campinas. Na segunda metade do século XIX, dois acontecimentos marcaram profundamente a sociedade e a economia ...
Maria Alice Rosa Ribeiro
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

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