Monumental Brasses in Shropshire

A radiographic survey of monumental masonry workers in Aberdeen.

MonArch - Digital Archives for Monumental Buildings

Monumental buildings such as cathedrals or castles together with their often very old and large archives form an important part of our cultural memory and heritage. Unique documents like medieval manuscripts, precious incunables, and church registers as well as original building plans, construction reports, old chemical recipies used for repairing and various others can be found in these archiv...

The foxglove, "The old woman from Shropshire" and William Withering.

Though he received his medical education in Edinburgh, William Withering was born and bred, and conducted his practice, in the Midlands of England, where he collaborated closely with medical and nonmedical colleagues who were pioneers of intellectual thought during the industrial revolution. Because of his profound botanical knowledge, he was able to identify Digitalis purpurea as the essential...

Influence of the chemical composition on the machinability of brasses

Although brasses are essentially copper and zinc alloys, they also contain other alloying elements such as lead, silicon, aluminium, iron, tin, manganese, nickel or arsenic whose presence and content are responsible for the wide variety of properties inherent to these materials. In this article, the effect of the chemical composition of brasses, considering each alloying element and the effecti...

Inverse Modeling of Climate Responses of Monumental Buildings

The indoor climate conditions of monumental buildings are very important for the conservation of these objects. Simplified models with physical meaning are desired that are capable of simulating temperature and relative humidity. In this paper we research state-space models as methodology for the inverse modeling of climate responses of unheated monumental buildings. It is concluded that this a...