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Seventeenth-Century 'double writing' schemes, and a 1676 letter in the phonetic script and real character of John Wilkins. [PDF]
Poole W.
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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Being Well, Looking Ill: Childbirth and the Return to Health in Seventeenth-century England. [PDF]
Astbury L.
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The Dutch East India Company through the Local Lens: Exploring the Dynamics of Indo-Dutch Relations in Seventeenth Century Bengal. [PDF]
Sur B.
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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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
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Abstract Foucault states that escaping from Hegel “requires knowing to what extent Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it requires knowing what remains Hegelian in that which allows us to think against Hegel, and measuring to what extent our maneuvers against him are perhaps a ruse he has set for us, at the end of which he awaits us, motionless
Bruce Baugh
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