Ruan Yuan, a Chinese contemporary of Tasan, was the last of the high officials who advocated Han studies in the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. As a patron of scholarship at his time, he went beyond his own intellectual propensities and did not set aside all partisans of Song studies. He thus contributed to the harmonisation of Song and Han studies. He also paid particular attention to the Xiaoji...

Recent research has revealed a small but growing quantity of casebooks and personal papers kept by obscure provincial medical practitioners in the eighteenth century, although the survival rate remains disappointingly low when contrasted with other archive sources for the period. We will never know how many Georgian surgeon-apothecaries in an age of low bureaucracy kept case notes on their pati...

The goal of this research was the systematic study and comparison divided individual effects UV light irradiation water leaching during artificial weathering. Spruce (Picea abies Karst.) Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) samples were irradiated by ultraviolet (UV) light. Another sequence treated with combination leaching. total extent treatment 20 days for both series samples. Time relation 2:1....

The article attempts to assess the influence of magnates on course sejmiks in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through lens actions taken by Volyn voivode Józef Kanty Ossolinski late 1763 and early 1764 push decisions favorable party so-called republicans at pre-convocation sejmik Lutsk. Despite very intensive efforts a great deal material generosity, including importation several thousand liters...