Art literature in Spanish artists' libraries (16th-18th centuries): an overview and a bibliography

Central asian MusliMs on tibetan buddhisM, 16th-18th Centuries

Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Europe from the 16th to 18th Centuries

Despite China's cultural impact on Japan, Japanese physicians used the medical knowledge they adopted from their great neighbor with surprising independence. Being more open to interactions with Westerners, even after the adoption of a semi-seclusion policy in 1639, Japan played a major role in the early transmission of knowledge of acupuncture and moxibustion to Europe. The first reports conce...

The Construction of Poblano Identity in Colonial Art and Architecture: Talavera Pottery and Cathedral Architecture in Puebla, Mexico, 16th - 18th Centuries

During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a dramatic cultural change. Puebla, Mexico is a unique city to discover the layers of identity because a different approach the Spanish decided to pursue to build its society. As Mexico’s first industrialized city, it is also the first Mexican city that was not built upon existing indigenous civilizatio...

Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries

identified as potassium nitrate) played a prominent part in the history of chemistry, as it stimulated experimental investigation of the vital component of air. This research programme was carried out in England in the second half of the seventeenth century, mostly by Robert Boyle and John Mayow. The latter's theory of nitro-aerial particles as the component of air necessary to combustion and r...

Distinguished doctors--famous musicians 18th-19th centuries.

Music is a g rea t zeal of t h e h u m a n spir i t . I t is a n i n s a t i a t e n e e d a n d a powerful ons l augh t t o w a r d perfect ion. I t revea ls spon taneous ly m o s t che r i shed t h o u g h t s a n d feelings. T h a t is why , t h e g rea t m a n of med ic ine a n d r e n o w n e d m u s i c i a n , Dr. Alber t Schwe i t ze r def ined : « Mus i c is a tool of t h e noble spir ...