Biodeterioration is a major problem for the conservation of cultural heritage materials. We provide a new and original approach to analyzing changes in patterns of colonization (Biodeterioration patterns, BPs) by biological agents responsible for the deterioration of outdoor stone materials. Here we analyzed BPs of four Khmer temples in Angkor (Cambodia) exposed to variable environmental condit...

The leg c , is called the hypotenuse. If no other number except one divides both a and b, then the triangle is called “primitive Pythagorean triangle” or just “PPT”. The smallest and best-known PPT is (3, 4, 5). Ancient clay tablets from Babylonia indicate that more than 1000 years before Pythagoras, the Babylonians demonstrated an awareness of at least 15 triangles. In ancient Egypt, the (3, 4...

Introduction In an entry in Nietzsche’s notebooks from the eighties, the entire spiritual movement of German philosophy is described as guided by nostalgia, by Heimweh. It is a nostalgia for “the best”, Nietzsche writes, which rejects the present in favor of the past. Ultimately, it is a will to recover Greek philosophy in general, and in particular the philosophy of the presocratics, that “bes...

flatulence with marked borborygmi, abdominal pain and diarrhoea began, and have continued ever since. His motions watery and undigested, three to seven a day> were associated with griping pains before and after. yn exertion he had difficulty in breathing and pain over the praecordia, his legs became stiff and he had to stop and rest. He complained also of more or less constant peculiar pulling ...