The French Jesuit missionary Pierre-Martial Cibot stood conspicuous in Sino-European exchange of natural knowledge. However, his exploratory research on Chinese fungi, which is significant to the body mycological knowledge, remains largely undiscussed and needs be reappraised cross-cultural historical context. Drawing Cibot’s 1770s writings this article provides a microhistorical treatment thei...

This article focuses on the use of sinfonia and ouverture as terms in Baroque era. Its relevance is due to fact that an objective picture musical culture impossible without studying authentic terminology, including used names works or their sections. Since there have been no special musicological publications this topic, information obtained a result study can expand traditional ideas about wha...

We relate the fundamental stages of the long road leading to the discovery of electricity and its uses in cardiology. The first observations on the electromagnetic phenomena were registered in ancient texts; many Greek and Roman writers referred to them, although they provided no explanations. The first extant treatise dates back to the XIII century and was written by Pierre de Maricourt during...