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Metallurgical processes as a way of controlling the deviations of gold practiced in Vila Rica (1770- 1807): the investigations in the punishment of the accused
Published in Circumscribere (12-07-2023)“…Since a long time, the extraction of gold in the Captaincy of Minas Gerais had yielded profit to the Portuguese Crown. This occurred from the discovery of the…”
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Relation among Theology, Natural Philosophy and New Science in Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671)
Published in Circumscribere (12-07-2023)“…This essay tries to analyse the way in which the Jesuit priest Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671) and his ideas were evaluated by traditional and modern…”
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Alessandro Volta correspondences: contributions to science in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
Published in Circumscribere (19-07-2022)“…The search for new knowledge led the Milanese nobleman Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) to correspond with different scholars from other nationalities through his…”
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Reflections on ‘Magical Thinking’ and Medieval Medicine
Published in Circumscribere (19-07-2022)“…Magic is a slippery concept that has been notoriously difficult to pin down both across and within disciplines. While anthropological approaches to the study…”
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O trabalho e as contribuições de Caroline Herschel na Astronomia
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A study on remote communication from the idea of precognition
Published in Circumscribere (23-02-2022)“…In the middle of the twentieth century, precisely during the Cold War, there was a great development in remote communication technologies, such that the…”
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Among potions and amulets: the use of precious stones at the 14th Century Bubonic Plague
Published in Circumscribere (23-02-2022)“…In 1347, a disease of unprecedented mortality reached Italian ports: the Bubonic Plague. In a few years, it spread across the European continent, killing…”
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On Aristotle’s arguments for the Earth’s smallness: argumentative gaps and context
Published in Circumscribere (23-02-2022)“…In the last chapter of the second book of his De Caelo, Aristotle argues for the Earth’s smallness. In this paper I will differentiate between three relevant…”
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The historian in the pandemic: what has been done about the history of nonconventional medicine in epidemics?
Published in Circumscribere (15-07-2021)“…From governments to the general public, one may ask about the possible contributions of historians, if any, to the understanding and management of global…”
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How AI can be surprisingly dangerous for the philosophy of mathematics— and of science
Published in Circumscribere (15-07-2021)“…In addition to the obvious social and ethical risks, there are philosophical hazards behind artificial intelligence and machine learning. I try to raise here…”
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Thinking vs. Thought in the context of David Bohm: The Awakening of Creativity as Opposed to Arbitrariness and Fragmentation of Scientific Knowledge
Published in Circumscribere (15-07-2021)“…This present Doctoral Thesis deals with David Bohm's reflection on the Act of Thinking vs. Thinking, and its impacts that would affect freedom for creativity,…”
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John Hadji Argyris (1913–2004) and the Computational Structural Analysis in the British Aircraft Engineering in the Mid-20th Century
Published in Circumscribere (09-07-2020)“…This work deals with the context of formation of Professor Dr. John Hadji Argyris (1913-2004) in Germany during the 1930s and Switzerland during the 1940s…”
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David Bohm and the challenge of a fragmented society
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Um estudo sobre o Physica, de Hildegarda de Bingen: as virtudes curativas de algumas plantas
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John Hadji Argyris (1913–2004) e a análise estrutural computacional na Engenharia Aeronáutica britânica em meados do século XX
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David Bohm e o desafio de uma sociedade fragmentada
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The role of digital/online resources in the Jewish Diaspora communities
Published in Circumscribere (30-10-2019)“…Globalization, in its earlier stages, was expected to erode national and ethnic identities. In contrast, ethnicity and ethnic affiliations persisted, growing…”
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Chlorpromazine: a remedy of its time
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Appraising waters — The assimilation of chemists into the trade of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France
Published in Circumscribere (30-10-2019)“…Mineral waters were a delicate and unstable product whose value as a remedy increased in early modern France. If it was once the prised luxury of the nobility…”
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Relations between Arithmetic and Geometry in Piero della Francesca’s Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus (c.1412 - 1492)
Published in Circumscribere (30-10-2019)“…This work aim to analyse relations between Arithmetic and Geometry indicated by Piero della Francesca (c.1412 - 1492) in his treatise Libellus de quinque…”
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