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Antonino Sancho Arango, un arquitecto en el tránsito hacia la Valencia contemporánea
2016
The process of modernization that Valencia and its territory underwent during the central decades of the 19th century is intrinsically linked to the trajectory of Antonino Sancho Arango’s career. He is considered an important figure in Valencian urban planning of this century, but his works in the field of architecture are almost unknown. This article aims to complete the study of the Antonino Sancho’s work and to establish a biography that values his role in the changes experimented by Valencia, but also Sancho’s dedication to public projects. La modernización que experimentaron Valencia y su territorio durante las décadas centrales del siglo XIX es indisociable de la trayectoria profesion…
The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses: A historical introduction
2013
AbstractThe neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (Batten disease) collectively constitute one of the most common groups of inherited childhood onset neurodegenerative disorders, and have also been identified in many domestic and laboratory animals. The group of human neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses currently comprises 14 genetically distinct disorders, mostly characterised by progressive mental, motor and visual deterioration with onset in childhood or adolescence. Abnormal autofluorescent, electron-dense granules accumulate in the cytoplasm of nerve cells, and this storage process is associated with selective destruction and loss of neurons in the brain and retina. The present paper outlines near…
Tecniche costruttive antisismiche in Calabria tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del Novecento,
2016
La presente memoria intende indagare lo sviluppo delle costruzioni antisismiche in Calabria in un periodo compreso tra gli anni Ottanta dell'Ottocento e i primi anni del Novecento. Lo studio è incentrato sulle tecniche costruttive adottate nelle ricostruzioni post-terremoto realizzate in un periodo immediatamente antecedente il sisma che colpì Messina e Reggio Calabria nel 1908, dopo il quale si registra un progressiva affermazione della tecnologia del cemento armato. In questo arco cronologico si assiste a un notevole sviluppo degli studi nel campo della costruzione antisismica, con una prevalente riproposizione di sistemi costruttivi tradizionali e con le prime sperimentazioni sul cemento…
La mitificació vuitcentista del passat medieval: la figura de Jaume I, rei d'Aragó
2012
La reivindicació de Jaume I com a símbol identitari que, de manera col·lectiva, portaren a terme els escriptors valencians de la segona meitat del segle XIX es fonamentà en tres fites històriques molt pròximes en el temps: la commemoració del VIé centenari de la seua mort, que se celebrà en juliol de 1876; la visita que una trentena d’escriptors i artistes valencians i catalans realitzaren en maig de 1882 al monestir de Poblet (Tarragona), on fou enterrat el Conqueridor; i la commemoració del VIIé centenari del seu naixement, que es portà a terme a València en 1908. The reivindication of King Jaume I as an identity symbol done by numerous Valencian writers of the mid-19th c. is based on thr…
The Experience of Impecuniousness in a Noble Family at the End of the Nineteenth Century
2017
Abstract Being a member of the elite imposed high demands on the livelihood of noble civil servant families in Finland at the end of the nineteenth century. Although the salaries of high-ranking officials were relatively substantial, they could not always ensure the standard of living which was demanded by the elite of the Grand Duchy of Finland. This article concerns the family of the governor, Baron Gustaf Aminoff, and their livelihood. The living of the Aminoff family was totally derived from Governor Aminoff's salaries and fees; they had no other sources of income, such as a manor or land. The Aminoff family constantly suffered a lack of money and its everyday consumption was rational a…
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2021
Poverty and Tax Exemptions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Finland
2017
The topic of this article is the nature and social character of Finnish rural poverty during the early stages of industrialization. Specifically, I analyze households exempted from two separate taxes in order to locate and study the rural poor. Contrary to several previous considerations deeming taxation sources unreliable in poverty studies, it is shown that under controlled settings tax exemption information does display promising features. These include a high exemption percentage of households without adult male members, small average household size of the tax exempted and a clear concentration of the exemptions on the lower rural social classes. My findings also highlight the fact that…
Mother's Death: A Turning Point in the Lives of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Lev Tolstoy's Nikolay Irtenev
2022
Although it is not possible to establish exactly when Lev Tolstoy started reading Charles Dickens, it was in the 1850s, he was reading David Copperfield, which was one of his most favourite novels by the English writer. David Copperfield is probabiy the most popular of all Dickens’s novels, and it is certainly the most autobiographical. The tendency to combine personal with general in an ambiguous generic package was also present from the beginning of Tolstoy’s career. His Childhood can be described as a pseudo-autobiography that imitates autobiography in all aspects, except one: its author and narrator are not the same person. A strong mother-son relationship is clearly visible in David Co…
Wiadomości o rudzkim opactwie cystersów – na podstawie dokumentu fundacyjnego z kapsuły czasu kościoła w Stanicy z 1802 r
2019
12 grudnia 2017 r. zdjęto krzyż z kulą z wieży kościoła parafialnego pw. św. Marcina w Stanicy – ostatniej świątyni zbudowanej przez opactwo cystersów w Rudach przed jego kasatą w 1810 r. W kapsule czasu znajdował się okolicznościowy zapis, sporządzony 20 września 1802 r. W oparciu o lekturę odkrytego dokumentu oraz dostępne opracowania na temat rudzkiego opactwa, autor omawia sytuację opactwa na początku burzliwego XIX w., a także charakteryzuje stan osobowy rudzkiego konwentu. W dalszej kolejności opisuje główne etapy budowy kościoła św. Marcina w Stanicy na kanwie dramatycznych dziejów zawieruchy napoleońskiej, posiłkując się kronikarskim zapisem ostatniej części odnalezionego dokumentu,…
Instrument transfer as knowledge transfer in neurophysiology: François Magendie's (1783-1855) early attempts to measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure.
2007
Francois Magendie's (1783-1855) experimental model for measuring blood pressure in animals, which he developed in 1838, had a major impact on French physiology in the nineteenth century, especially upon Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) in Paris. In due course it was also adopted by other European investigators, such as the Leipzig physiologist Carl Ludwig (1816-1895), and by clinicians who developed it into a major measuring tool. Historians of science, however, have paid hardly any attention to Magendie's further laboratory investigations conducted with the assistance of Jean-Louis Marie Poiseuille's (1799-1869) sphygmometre (blood pressure meter). After having used the apparatus to conduct…