Extending Highthroughput Technologies: The Automation of Mechanism Discovery Investigations into the mode and action of the thio-Michael Reaction [PDF]
, 2010 This project concerns the investigation of the thio-Michael reaction (see scheme). The approach has employed a process development methodology to chemical discovery rather than more traditional research methods.
WALTON, SIMON
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'Anecdote, example, method: Renaissance accounts of the death of Pliny the Elder'
, 2013 This article is a study of the commonplace anecdote of the death of Pliny the Elder and considers in particular the way in which writers in emergent vernacular genres used the story as a means of promoting particular methodological positions on enquiry ...
Tomlinson, Rowan C
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Letters to the emperor : epistolarity and power relations from Cicero to Symmachus
, 2007 Traditionally Latin prose letters have been classified in one of two ways: often they are seen as historical documents to be mined for political, historical and social information; otherwise they are viewed as literature, to be read with a consideration ...
Creese, Maggi
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Circling Round Vitruvius, Linear Perspective, and the Design of Roman Wall Painting
Arts, 2019 Many scholars believe that linear perspective existed in classical antiquity, but a fresh examination of two key texts in Vitruvius shows that 1.2.2 is about modularity and symmetria, while 7.Pr.11 describes shading (skiagraphia).
Jocelyn Penny Small
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Zaplecze inwencyjne Spitamegeranomachii Jana Achacego Kmity
Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2015 This paper offers a detailed analysis “Spitamegeranomachia” by Jan Achacy Kmita on the backgroundof his work and in the broader context of the inventio-doctrine of the Polish Renaissance.The first Polish mock-heroic poem is presented in the ...
Aleksandra Goszczyńska
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Pliny the Elder: which language for which science?
, 2018 The lack of vocabulary and structures of Latin for scientific writing is well known and a widely discussed issue. The solutions found by each author give a hint into their conception and approach to the subject treated.
Fantoli, Margherita
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Chersiphron & Son Engineers [PDF]
, 2011 An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Tally-Schumacher KJ.
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, 2017 The influence of Greek language and culture on the Roman world is difficult to underestimate, and the use of Greek borrowings into the Latin language was extensive in works of both poetry and prose. The results of this can be observed today with the many
Horn, Sindre August
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Edible Insects: A Historical and Cultural Perspective on Entomophagy with a Focus on Western Societies. [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Olivadese M, Dindo ML.
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