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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

Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of anthropogenic activities on the microplastic pollution status of an urbanized wetland. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Monit Assess
Rivera-Hernández JR   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cascading continental-scale floods across Europe in 1342-1343. [PDF]

open access: yesNature
Kiss A   +35 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Artificial light at night reveals hotspots and rapid development of industrial activity in the Arctic. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Akandil C   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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