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J Anat
January 2025
Laboratorio de Evolución Humana, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
Studies of modeling processes have provided important insights in human evolutionary discipline. Most of these studies are based on facial bones and in much lesser extent on other bones such as those from the cranial vault. Thus, this study fills a gap in research by examining occipital bone modeling in subadults, adding individuals under 2 years old and expanding the sample size available to date.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hist Ideas
January 2025
Although the Republic of Letters has become today a main area of interdisciplinary research, early North America has remained largely impermeable to this new body of scholarship. In this article I use the category of the Republic of Letters to overcome some of the limitations of the "Atlantic world" paradigm and to shed new light on the intellectual history of eighteenth-century America. Along with studying the means through which American savants gathered information about scholarly trends and recent publications, I also bring to light the strategies they used to actively contribute to the production and organization of knowledge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hist Dent
January 2025
Ecole de Médecine Dentaire de Marseille, 27 boulevard Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS, ADES, Marseille, France.
Plague is an infectious disease caused by a Gram-negative bacterium, , and has affected human populations in different pandemics for at least 5000 years. The last plague epidemic in France occurred at the beginning of eighteenth century in Marseille, in southeast France. Marseille is today France's second largest city.
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December 2024
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), 22 Gordon Sq, London, WC1H 0AW, UK. Electronic address:
Recently, John McCaskey (2020) has proposed that the arrival of Daniel Fahrenheit's thermometers precipitated the eighteenth-century conceptual change of temperature. I examine the usage of the temperature term in the Philosophical Transactions for this period, leading from the creation of the Fahrenheit thermometer up to the first employment of numerical temperature within the journal, in which temperature is constituted by a numerical value. I identify four strands linking thermometry and meteorology to temperature's conceptual change: the weather data network of James Jurin; the dissemination and acclaim for Fahrenheit thermometers; a resurgence in the usage of temperature in meteorological writing; and both exploratory usage and a broadening of the term's extent as it realigned to thermometry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddiction
December 2024
Department of English, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Background And Aims: The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half of the nineteenth century demonstrates the seriousness with which it was considered. We aimed to chart discussions about the links between spontaneous human combustion and spirit drinking in medical texts and representations in fiction through three key chronological periods from 1804 to 1900.
Methods: A contextual analysis using eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historical, literary and medical sources to chart and reflect on public and medical discourses.
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