The article summarizes the role of Alexander Benois in study French painting 18th century. His interest this period is connected both with peculiarities art collecting Russia and rediscovery century France. was well aware historical literary sources as modern history examines main categories used by Benois, who combined methods connoisseurship essayism, also analyzes language terms that he his ...

Background: Datura stramonium is a poisonous and common flowering plant that is a member of the Solanacae family. Datura poisonings are a rare occurrence in the 21st century, making toxicological information on this plant sparse. Historical information on Datura provides useful information on the clinical symptoms and characteristics of poisonings. This review looks at the state of knowledge on...

We compare four methods for transcribing early printed texts. Our comparison is through a case-study of digitizing an eighteenthcentury French novel for a new critical edition: the 1784 Lettres taı̈tiennes by Joséphine de Monbart. We provide a detailed error analysis of transcription by optical character recognition (OCR), non-expert humans, and expert humans and weigh each technique based on ac...

the research entitled “a comparative study of saadi’s golestan and samuel johnson’s rasselas” is based on the inclination of 18th century writer and theorist johnson on towards rich persian literature and outstanding resemblance of golestan and rassales from the structural, moral, philosophical points of view. the findings are based on two hypotheses: (1) has there been any basis for johnson’...

one of the importants questions in the discourse of valery, french author of xxth century is the question of another who achieves in the knowledge. another is treated with a new way. indeed, another is defines in touch with the me of the author. that is the reflection of me and a dialectic becomes established between both: me and another. in his discourse, the enonciataire is in front of two in...

We present a scientific reflection on the creation of a large illustrative personal data graphics that we create to mimic 18th–19th century style visualizations. We discuss the relationship to illustrative visualization, the story-telling aspects of the design, the used data sources and their purpose, the creation of the overall style, and the aspects of the multi-author creation process.

The word "emotion" has named a psychological category and a subject for systematic enquiry only since the 19th century. Before then, relevant mental states were categorised variously as "appetites," "passions," "affections," or "sentiments." The word "emotion" has existed in English since the 17th century, originating as a translation of the French émotion, meaning a physical disturbance. It ca...