15th-Century Practical Medicine in Print

Transfusion of Blood in 15th Century

Potential causes of 15th century Arctic warming

Potential causes of 15th century Arctic warming using coupled model simulations with data assimilation E. Crespin, H. Goosse, T. Fichefet, and M. E. Mann Université catholique de Louvain, Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaı̂tre, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2, 1348 Louvain la Neuve, Belgium Department of Meteorology, Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Instit...

Debating Scientific Medicine: Homoeopathy and Allopathy in Late Nineteenth-century Medical Print in Bengal1

The historiography of medicine in South Asia often assumes the presence of preordained, homogenous, coherent and clearly-bound medical systems. They also tend to take the existence of a medical 'mainstream' for granted. This article argues that the idea of an 'orthodox', 'mainstream' named allopathy and one of its 'alternatives' homoeopathy were co-produced in Bengal. It emphasises the role of ...

15th Century Contribution to the Study of Vaulted Structure in Iran

Vaulted structure has been in use for nearly 4000 years and believed to have been studied by scientists and builders for nearly 2000 years. There are few publications about the geometry and constructional aspects of arches and vaults before Renaissance age. One of the most interesting works on this subject belongs to Jamshid Kashani known as a mathematician. Ghiayth Al-Din Kashani, has made so...

Tonal Patterns in the 15th Century: A Corpus-Based Approach

This paper investigates the tonal patterns in the 15 th century from a corpus-based approach, focusing on two historical sources, 日 本 館 譯 語 Rìbĕn kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of Chinese-Japanese Phrases’ and 朝 鮮 館 譯 語 Cháoxiān kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of ChineseKorean Phrases’. The results suggest that Japanese and Korean are signiifcantly different in the phonetic transcription of low tone in monosyllab...