A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

A history of neurophysiology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: from concept to experiment

provides an excellent guide to the secondary literature on Einthoven, Lewis, and the electrocardiogram (ECG), as well as to available translations of Einthoven's papers. High-quality reproductions of several ECG tracings as well as of handwritten letters and diagrams not only make the book an aesthetic success, but also allow the reader access to primary source material. These documents are esp...

"La femminil pazienza": Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Medical travellers. Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

investment is credited with promoting further improvement until the late 1930s. Thereafter, the economy lagged, but mortality continued to decline; a circumstance that argues for the success of modern medicine in fighting disease. The data on mortality since Castro's coming to power is also revealing. Between 1959 and 1980, average life expectancy increased eight to nine years, to the point tha...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Electricity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A study of early modern physics

Oedipal revolt present in Homer produced the creative tensions in Greek, and especially Athenian culture. "Both tragedy and democracy are impossible when all authority is seen as good and blind obedience to authority is considered a high virtue." In the end, Plato joined Homer's condemnation of the revolt by proposing an ideal system that would produce fathers so virtuous that revolt would be u...