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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.ABSTRACT In the 17th‐century Louvre expansion project, many architects used free‐standing columns, domes and large pediments for its east elevation. These elements helped give the elevation, over 150 m wide, the monumentality the court wanted, while also providing the appropriate articulation. Bernini was probably the only architect who did not use any
Taro Endo
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Vitruvius in de middeleeuwen: een verkenning
Bulletin KNOB, 1998 Although no less than 78 Medieval manuscripts of Vitruvius's De Architectura Libri X (25 B.C.) have been preserved, very little is known of the needs felt in copying the text.
Steven Surdèl
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Evidence for an Early Formation of Serenitatis Basin at 4.25 Ga Shifts Lunar Chronology
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 18, 28 September 2025.Abstract Troctolite sample 76535, collected in Serenitatis basin during Apollo 17, formed at least 50 km deep, experienced maximum shock pressures of 6 GPa, and has a 40Ar/39Ar excavation age of 4.25 Ga. Previous work attributed 76535 to the South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin, presumably dating the SPA‐impact and constraining lunar bombardment history. Here
Evan Bjonnes +6 more
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Of good use or serious pleasure : Vitruvius Britannicus and early eighteenth century architectural discourse [PDF]
, 2001 The central thesis of this work is that Colen Campbell's three volume Vitruvius Britannicus (1715-25) is not, as it has been frequently seen, a Palladian manifesto designed to change architectural practice in England (and in the process Campbell's own ...
Rumble, Lucy Elisabeth
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Opus Signinum, Terrazzo, Mortier et Béton de Sol : Un Etat de la Question
Journal of Mosaic Research, 2016 After a brief presentation of the various materials used in these pavements and the description of their decorative repertoires, we discuss the question of vocabulary.
Véronique VASSAL
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The operational concepts in the Vitruvian system of design
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2019 The study aims to contribute to understand the Vitruvian design system through the analysis of the temples described in the text leading to the three key concepts related: proportio, commensus and commodulatio.
Leandro Manenti
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The Impact of DNA as a Chemical Admixture for Cementitious Materials
Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 10, Issue 15, August 7, 2025.DNA molecules are added to cement pastes and their effects on rheology and hydration time are studied. DNA's chemical structure is composed of polysaccharide and phosphate groups, which are active functional groups in different commercial chemical admixtures: Viscosity modifiers and superplasticizers.
Alexander Mezhov +4 more
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Des Vitruvius zehn Bücher über Architektur
übers. und durch Anmerkungen und Risse erläutert von Franz ReberOriginaltitel: De architectura libri decem Vitruvius ...
Vitruvius
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