Grief and Emotional Suffering in the Elegiac Poems by Jeremias de Decker and Michiel de Swaen, c. 1650-1700

‘ VIVIDNESS ’ IN ENGLISH NATURAL HISTORY AND ANATOMY , 1650 – 1700 by

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

Chapter 1 -introduction Michiel P De Boer

adapted from Microvascular dysfunction: a potential mechanism in the pathogenesis of obesity-associated insulin resistance and hypertension. Opening remarks This thesis describes the studies performed at the VU medical center during my PhD project. It is the latest in a line of projects testing our group's main hypothesis: the microvasculature as a pivot at the heart of clustering cardiometabol...

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic

‘ Vividness ’ in English Natural History and Anatomy , 1650 – 1700

This article concerns the use of rhetorical strategies in the natural historical and anatomical works of the seventeenth-century Royal Society. Choosing representative works, it argues that naturalists such as Nehemiah Grew, John Ray and the neuroanatomist Thomas Willis used the rhetorical device known as ‘comparison’ to make their descriptions of natural things vivid. By turning to contemporar...

["De Morbis Artificum Diatriba." 1700-2000. ].

Bernardino Ramazzini was a renowned physician and a prolific writer, born in Capri in 1633. He is considered the father of occupational medicine for having written the first paper on workers' diseases (De morbis artificum diatriba). His Treaty on Workers' diseases included 53 different professions, one particular and specific method of analysis, and a methodological proposal to prevent these di...