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The lack of studies reporting the characterisation Germanic grisaille is evident, despite recent interest researchers in this glass painting material. This work consists first assessment grisaille’ chemical composition on a wide chronology (14th–19th centuries), that was only possible through unique stained-glass collection King Ferdinand II Portugal. From considerable amount panels produced te...

The work of Thomas McKeown has spawned a decades-long controversy about the sources of the long-term reduction in mortality, beginning sometime in the 18th century, that, in his view, was undeniably the impetus for the modern rise of population. On one side of the debate, McKeown argues that a changing economic environment, specifically increases in food production resulting in better nutrition...

Coulomb, Carl Friedrich Gauss, André Marie Ampère, and Michael Faraday discovered the four experimental laws concerning electricity and magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell added the displacement current and thereby created the great set of Maxwell’s equations. That view is not entirely wrong, but it obscures the subtle interplay between sophisticated geometrical and physical intuitions that led not ...

Many sunspot number series exist suggesting different levels of solar activity during the past centuries. Their reliability can be assessed only by comparing them with alternative indirect proxies. We test different sunspot number series against the updated record of cosmogenic radionuclide 44Ti measured in meteorites. Two bounding scenarios of solar activity changes have been considered: the H...

The history between cetaceans and humans is documented throughout time not only in reports, descriptions, and tales but also in legal documents, laws and regulations, and tithes. This wealth of information comes from the easy spotting and identification of individuals due to their large size, surface breathing, and conspicuous above water behaviour. This work is based on historical sources and ...

As a heritage site today, Borobudur is arguably constructed from stories of ancient grandeur, regrettable loss, and colonial rescue, infused with lingering aesthetics construction. This paper discusses the historical deconstruction process knowledge production by analysing Babad Tanah Jawi manuscript produced late 18th century to early 19th Javanese courts. The result shows that during Early Mo...

In this essay the comparative follow-up of motive dis / encounter lovers belonging to different ontological fields (life death, wakefulness sleep), expressed in fantastic figures such as empusas, ghosts and vampires is carried out. The starting point a story Apollonius Tiana according text Philostratus, which was recovered by Goethe Bride Corinth, taken up 19th century authors Théophile Gautier...