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The National Library of Argentina: exhibiting astronomy-related rare books
, 2009 Astronomical and cosmological knowledge up to the dawn of modern science was profoundly embedded in myth, religion and superstition. Many of these inventions of the human mind remain today stored in different supports: medieval engravings, illuminated ...
Alejandro Gangui, Gangui
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, 2019 Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
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Under the Wing of a Creature of the Night
, 2017 Magnificent in its sheer power and beauty, this owl wing has a wingspan of 18 inches and measures 10 inches from the shoulder bone to the secondary feathers.
Chin, Julia M.
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Wonderful Examples, but Let's not Close Our Eyes
, 2014 The papers in this collection are superb illustrations of the power of modern Bayesian methods. They give examples of problems which are well suited to being tackled using such methods, but one must not lose sight of the merits of having multiple ...
Hand, David J.
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Scientific 'marvels' in the public sphere
, 2012 This paper examines the scientific culture of the 1888 Barcelona International Exhibition from different perspectives. Firstly, it emphasises how controversy rather than consensus imbued the everyday life of the city during that exceptional event, from April to December 1888. Secondly, the article discusses how science-including science, technology and
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“Searching for order at all levels”. Antonio Lima-de-Faria (July 4, 1921 – December 27, 2023)
CaryologiaProfessor Antonio Lima-de-Faria was our friend and, in a sense, a teacher. Despite our different fields of study, this master of scientific thought has deeply influenced both of us. Dr.
Stefano Serafini, Tatyana S. Turova
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The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach
, 2005 The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition especially in transportation/land-use planning and economic geography.
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771 [PDF]
, 2010 Maurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural ...
Inkster, I
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Crocodiles - the Singular Beast in the Renaissance Cabinet
, 2017 Stuffed crocodiles often predominated many famous cabinets, hanging in the center of the ceiling. Crocodilians are the largest reptiles and the largest predator that spends time on land.
Zhang, Peter
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IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter 2015 [PDF]
, 2015 Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education ...
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