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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

Non-Invasive Salivary Reproductive Endocrine Profiles in Gentoo Penguins. [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals (Basel)
De la Riva-Fraga M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fracture and Calving Front Evolution: A Case Study of Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica

open access: yesProceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This study combines historical records, satellite remote sensing data, and inverse modelling to investigate crack formation and calving front evolution of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Historical maps from the 1950s, together with satellite imagery from 1970s–2026, are used to reconstruct calving‐front positions and track the evolution of ...
Angelika Humbert   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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