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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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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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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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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 iis quiad me tamquam christiani deferebantur, hunc sum secutus modum. Evidence Applied in the Persecution of Pontian Christians According to Pliny the Younger (Ep. 10,96) Summary In 1st and 2nd centuries A. D.
Maciej Jońca
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Le metamorfosi di un filosofo. Tracce, presenze e mutazioni di Aristotele nella zoologia di Plinio
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2009 In the zoological section of Natural History by Pliny the Elder, the name of Aristotle is generally used as a "chrism", which helps to determine the veracity of biological news and data that can also be seen as fabulous or paradoxical. Anyway, whereas, e.
Pietro Li Causi
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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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Moterų paveikslai Plinijaus Laiškuose. Women characters in Pliny’s „Letters“ [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2011 This article proceeds the cycle of articles about characters in Pliny „Letters“. Although male characters dominate and there are few women images in the „Letters“, but Pliny represents every female character very carefully, showing their living ...
Anna Maciūnienė
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 7, Page 996-1019, October 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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Broad Strokes with a Fine Brush. Pliny Pan. 25 and its Sallustian Intertexts
HistosJustifying the lengthy details of his thanksgiving to the emperor (Pan. 25), Pliny alludes to two programmatic statements by Sallust. He first quotes the historian’s explicit choice of narrating history in selection (carptim, Cat.
Christopher B. Krebs
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