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Hodòi. Le vie del corpo umano nella medicina ippocratica
2022
Lo studio prende in considerazione l’alto numero di occorrenze del termine ὁδός e di alcuni suoi composti (tra cui ad esempio δίοδος e περίοδος) presenti nel Corpus ippocratico, e in particolare in un gruppo di trattati (Generazione/Natura del bambino; libro IV delle Malattie; libro I delle Malattie delle donne; Ghiandole) che presentano comuni caratteristiche dal punto di vista teorico, lessicale e delle forme dell’espressione del pensiero medico scientifico. L’uso di detta terminologia per definire le “vie del corpo umano” e i fluidi che vi scorrono (in primo luogo sangue e sperma) sembra rimandare ad una concezione dell’anatomia e della fisiologia umana comune ai trattati considerati.
La collection Joseph de Baye au Musée d’Archéologie Nationale
2014
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The Silver Voltameter: An Essential Instrument for the Definition of the Unit of Electric Current
2017
We discuss the restoration of a silver voltameter belonging lo the Historical Collection of Physics Instruments of the University of Palermo. We stress the essential role this instrument had in the definition of the unit of electric current.
"Paolo Boccone’s curious observations and the Commitment to Visual Communication of Natural History", speech at International Conference "Art and Sci…
2015
In his "Recherches et observations naturelles" (Amsterdam 1674) the botanist Paolo Boccone (1633- 1704) presents himself as an advocate of a new visual method. He was supported by Jan Swammerdam, with whom he shared his scientific observations. Boccone claims to be the first to apply microscopic dissection to figured stones, in order to distinguish accidental shapes from natural ones. Boccone, as many of the members of the scientific community with whom he corresponded, had a strong commitment to painstaking observation and visual communication, that he was able to handle on many levels. The allegorical frontispiece of "Recherches" is aimed to present a range of moral and psychological atti…
Distributed Data Collection for the ATLAS EventIndex
2015
The ATLAS EventIndex contains records of all events processed by ATLAS, in all processing stages. These records include the references to the files containing each event (the GUID of the file) and the internal “pointer” to each event in the file. This information is collected by all jobs that run at Tier-0 or on the Grid and process ATLAS events. Each job produces a snippet of information for each permanent output file. This information is packed and transferred to a central broker at CERN using an ActiveMQ messaging system, and then is unpacked, sorted and reformatted in order to be stored and catalogued into a central Hadoop server. This contribution describes in detail the Producer/Consu…
An Overview of Public Concerns During the Recovery Period after a Major Earthquake: Nepal Twitter Analysis
2016
In responding to disasters, Twitter is extensively used, both for information exchange and mapping the crisis, among citizens, and in relation to national and international humanitarian responders. This paper reports Twitter analysis aimed at identifying the most pressing issues that arose in the short term recovery phase starting about a week after the Nepal earthquake, including the heretofore neglected topic of mismatch between international relief and local cultures. Based on Twitter data collected between April 30th and May 6th 2015. 1,074,864 raw messages apparently related to the Nepal earthquake were retrieved, filtered and analyzed. This exploratory adapts established frameworks fo…
Towards Big Data: Digitising Economic and Business History
2020
This chapter describes the experiences in computational and digital history of economic and business historians who for decades have been forerunners in digital history data gathering and computational analysis. It attempts to discuss the major developments within this area internationally and, in some specific cases, in Finland in the fields of digital economic and business history. It concentrates on a number of research projects that the authors have previously been involved in, as well as research outcomes by other economic and business historians within Finland and elsewhere. It is not claimed that the projects discussed are unique or ahead of their time in the field of economic and bu…
El Llibre de cetreria del vescomte de Rocabertí
2021
Resum: En el present article oferim una edició crítica del Llibre de cetreria, un breu tractat de falconeria escrit en català i conservat en manuscrit únic pertanyent a una col·lecció privada. També n’estudiem l’estructura i el contingut, a més de les relacions amb altres obres de falconeria, especialment les escrites a la Corona d’Aragó. Oferim una hipòtesi sobre la identificació del seu autor i l’època de la composició del tractat. Com que es tracta de l’obra escrita en català que major nombre d’ocells de caça esmenta, a la present edició ens ha semblant oportú de fer una exposició detallada de les aus emprades pels caçadors, com també tota la terminologia que la llengua catalana va desen…
La iconografía en la era digital: hacia una heurística para el estudio del contenido de las imágenes medievales
2014
Este artículo invita a reflexionar sobre la validez de la iconografía como método para describir los temas representados en las obras artísticas medievales. En esta ocasión, se ha puesto un mayor énfasis en investigar sus implicaciones epistemológicas y los sesgos que resultan del proceso de transformar las imágenes en palabras. El objetivo principal es tratar de que aflore la llamada 'brecha semántica', una especie de barrera que impide representar verbalmente un medio no léxico, como es el visual, de manera satisfactoria y sin mermas. Tras un sucinto recorrido por el pensamiento griego, con un especial interés por la écfrasis, se sugiere que el aparente equilibrio entre las capacidades se…
THE OLIGARCH AND THE PAINTBRUSHES: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANDREU GARCIA, PRIEST = EL OLIGARCA Y LOS PINCELES: BREVE SEMBLANZA DEL PRESBÍTERO ANDREU…
2014
The documents regarding the Valencian priest Andreu Garcia († November 1452) show a quite interesting character. Garcia’s family belonged to local oligarchy. Moreover, he had a substantial income related with the Cathedral. He had contact, too, with Carthusians, Observant Friars and probably with Beghards (the books of his library suggest this last idea). Garcia took part, as an intermediary or as a sponsor, in many artistic orders that involved the best workers and the best customers of the city. Besides, he had a strong relationship with painters like Simó Llobregat, Jaume Mateu, Gonçal Sarrià and Joan Reixac. The priest could also have practiced painting, judging by the belongings that w…