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Quadrivium (Exhibition Catalogue) [PDF]
Quadrivium is Latin for the fourways or the place where the four roads meet. It\u27s use here describes Knoxville and the School of Art as the place where artistic roads and artists have met.
Landis, Marissa, Yates, Sam
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Crônicas universais na Alemanha Medieval
O ser medieval encarava a existência da humanidade como um fenômeno precário, perfeitamente delimitado. Seus relatos dessa humanidade assumem, por isso, um aspecto absoluto, revelando ascensão, ápice e declínio, ou melhor, comêço e fim de sua história ...
Erwin Theodor
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Accounting Professionalism: Serving the Public Interest Means First Knowing What Societies Value
ABSTRACT This paper calls for including liberal arts study in undergraduate accounting degrees. Although the idea is not new, unlike previous calls – which use normative‐based arguments to link liberal arts study with the development of students' critical thinking, problem‐solving, and analytical skills – the present study views the inclusion of ...
Ralph W. Adler
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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Nonlinear Damping as the Fourth Dimension in Optical Fiber Anemometry
Nonlinear damping is introduced as the fourth dimension in the operation of a fiber tip optomechanical anemometer. The flow sensing element includes a 3D rotor, measuring 110 µm in diameter, that revolves around a stator fabricated through a two‐photon nanomachining process.
Jeremiah C. Williams +1 more
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La prehistoria del Quadrivium antes y después de Platón
[ES] La tesis abarca el tema de la prehistoria del quadrivium medieval: aritmética, geometría, astronomía y música. El uso del término «prehistoria» se justifica por el hecho de que nos referimos, con eso, a un periodo que comienza con los antiguos ...
Sanna, Maria Chiara
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Métrica y Arquitectura del Hospital de los Reyes Católicos en Santiago de Compostela
Aunque los Reyes Católicos protegieron varios hospitales en diferentes ciudades de la península, promovieron dos directamente: el de Santiago y el de Granada, que presentan en su idea matriz el corpus arquitectónico del contenedor bien definido y aislado
Víctor Grande Nieto
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Although Ancient systems of world harmony are ubiquitous in Medieval and Renaissance musical treatises, they seem to contradict long-established systems of knowledge, such as Ptolemaic astronomy (the system of epicycles and eccentrics, and distances ...
Guillaume Bunel
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Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
Abstract A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject
Tim Shephard, Charlotte Hancock
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