Innovation and the great divergence
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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The Place for Form in Wollheim's Lectures on Formalism and Pictorial Organization
Abstract At the time of his death, Richard Wollheim was writing a short book on Formalism and Pictorial Organization. Much of it, but by no means all of it, had been published before (it has come out posthumously in its entirety in late 2025). Here I do two things. First, I have provided a rather detailed exegesis concentrating on the parts of the book
Gary Kemp
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A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. [PDF]
Sabin S +7 more
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY
ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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The pre-telescopic observations of the Moon in early seventeenth-century London: The case of Edward Gresham (1565-1613). [PDF]
Włodarczyk J.
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Abstract In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the Mokuhanga technique, a traditional Japanese printmaking method, and its contemporary evolution. This article explores the history of this discipline, its technical uniqueness, and its resurgence in the current context, with particular attention to its development in Spain.
Macarena Moreno Moreno
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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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ABSTRACT Background Mental health nursing in the United Kingdom has developed along a distinctive historical and legal trajectory shaped by statutory frameworks governing mental distress, detention, capacity and coercion. While adult/general nursing largely professionalised through Nightingalean reform, biomedicine and public health, mental health ...
Victoria Sweetmore
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Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity
Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
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