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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]

Ground Water
Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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Palliative Care Environments in an Acute Hospital for End-Of-Life Care-Perspectives of Patients, Next of Kin and Healthcare Professionals. [PDF]

Nurs Open
ABSTRACT Aim The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of patients, next of kin and healthcare professionals on planning a new end‐of‐life room in a department of surgery in an acute hospital. Design Qualitative study. Methods Between January and March 2023, 20 individual semi‐structured interviews were conducted at the REDACTED ...
Buchwald D, Hübner C, Madsen LS, Melgaard D.   +3 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Kaaronen RO, Manninen MA, Eronen JT.
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De Vitruvius-uitgave van Johannes De Laet (1649)

Bulletin KNOB, 1998
Johannes De Laet was a Leiden merchant and one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company. He also moved in the learned circles of Leiden University and was a good friend and assistant of professor Claude Saumaise.
Koen A. Ottenheym
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Diversity and distribution of bamboo-feeding true bugs in China. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
There are 36 genera with 69 species bamboo‐feeding true bugs in China. Their spacial diversity pattern showed preference in South China, with higher diversity areas located in the tropics and its surrounding areas. Abstract The Bambusoideae subfamily, originating in the late Cretaceous, has evolved to include over 1500 species globally.
Jiang K, Chen J, Wang S, Li Y, Zhang D, Hu H, Bu W.   +6 more
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Introduzione. La prospettiva come tema vitruviano = Introduction. Perspective as a Vitruvian Theme

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 2019
Con la diffusione della prospettiva lineare, l’architettura divenne uno dei principali temi di studio degli artisti rinascimentali. La necessità di rappresentare architetture credibili impose ai pittori di imparare a disegnare come gli architetti ...
Filippo Camerota
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From Vitruvius to the Science Of Drawing

Venezia Arti, 2020
Daniele Barbaro’s treatise on perspective is one of the most authoritative technical-scientific sources of the sixteenth century. Although largely based on the unpublished work of Piero della Francesca, the treatise had the precise and original ...
Camerota, Filippo
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Ryff’s Acanthus

21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2020
This article proposes a new framework for examining the empirical research of early modern architects. It explores the rise of nature study in sixteenth-century architectural theory and practice through the works of physician and architecture expert ...
Elizabeth J. Petcu
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GREEK MODELS AND LITERARY SOURCES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ITALY AS SIGN OF ITS BENT TO UNIVERSAL RULE IN DE ARCHITECTURA OF VITRUVIUS (VI 1, 1-11)

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019
The subject of importance of Italy, at the beginning of book VI of De Architectura of Vitruvius (30-20 B.C.) shows a significant change from a geo-climatic conception to a political and ideological one.
Marco Martin
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