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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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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Visual Poetry - Drama

open access: yes
First of all, Bharata Muni (second century AD) has presented authentic and detailed explanation of the theatrical book in 36 chapters in his text-book theatrology. Explaining the importance of dramatics, he states that there is no such knowledge, craft, education, art, yoga (use) and karma of the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
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What does it mean to be a post‐Newtonian? Schelling on competing scientific models

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract While Schelling's position has often been portrayed as highly critical of Newton, his discussion of Newton's theories has never been thoroughly studied. The goal of this paper is to analyze in more detail the relationship between Schelling and Newton, with an eye toward the fundamental question that guides Schelling: how can conflicts between ...
Raphaël Authier
wiley   +1 more source

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