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Early modern Europe

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Sequence-dependent structural properties of B-DNA: what have we learned in 40 years?

John Maddocks, Daiva Petkeviciute, Rahul Sharma, Marco Pasi, Paolo Carloni

The structure of B-DNA, the physiological form of the DNA molecule, has been a central topic in biology, chemistry and physics. Far from uniform and rigid, the double helix was revealed as a flexible and structurally polymorphic molecule. Conformational ch ...

London2021

Epistemic Images in Early-Modern Mixed Mathematics

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Challenging Ancient textual authorities, images are ubiquitous in the early-modern regime of knowledge: from Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica to Newton’s Principia through Hooke’s Micrographia, illustrations, depictions, figures, diagrams, and schemati ...

Springer2020

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

Crisis and Renewal: From the National Commission for IIT to the MTCC by Rem Koolhaas

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

Since the 1940s, the buildings added to the IIT Campus in Chicago had either been designed by Mies van der Rohe himself or largely informed by his example and teachings. With the Harold Leonard Stuart Building from 1971 by the SOM partner and former Mies s ...

2019

A View on Venetian Apprenticeship through the Garzoni Database

Giovanni Colavizza

A sample of contracts of apprenticeship from three periods in the history of early modern Venice is analysed, as recorded in the archive of the Giustizia Vecchia, a venetian magistracy. The periods are the end of the 16th century, the 1620s and the 1650s. ...

Universitas Studiorum2017

Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice

Giovanni Colavizza

The desire of the Republican state to regulate the production and sale of food led to the establishment, during the twelfth century, of the Giustizia Vecchia, a magistracy which later developed an authority over the majority of the city’s guilds. The furth ...

Cambridge University Press2017

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Giovanni Colavizza

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Forest decline played a pivotal role in motivating Europe's political focus on sustainability around 35 years ago. Silver fir (Abies alba) exhibited a particularly severe dieback in the mid-1970s, but disentangling biotic from abiotic drivers remained chal ...

Ecological Soc Amer2014

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