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The low countries - 16th/17th century.

Andreas Vesalius and Jan Baptist Van Helmont are the two major personalities who contributed substantially and in a different way to the early development of renal anatomy/physiology of the 16th/17th century in the Southern Low Countries. The importance of A. Vesalius' publication 'de humani corporis fabrica libri septem' cannot be overestimated. The kidney was an intriguing organ to Vesalius, ...

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...

MPEG-4 Ave stream watermarking by ST-mDM techniques

The present paper introduces a new insertion/detection technique for MPEG-4 Ave stream protection by means of watermarking techniques. The embedding process relies on the ST-DM (Spread Transform Dither Modulation) principles and adapts/extends the Watson's perceptual model so as to cope with the compressed domain peculiarities. In contrast to the state-of-the art techniques considering only bin...

The Sociolinguistics of DO NOT in the 16th and 17th Century

Cartier, Champlain, and the fruits of the New World: botanical exchange in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Much has been written of the Columbian exchange, the transfer between New World and Old of people, pathogens, flora and fauna. The biota of two hemispheres, once seemingly irredeemably separated, were interpenetrated, both through accident and through human agency. Part of this exchange involved medicinal and food plants, discovered in the New World and adopted into the Old. This paper examines...