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The small book explains the media theoretical and historical-theological foundations of spiritual intermediality and spirtual emblematica in the Early Modern Period.

Religion --- Emblematics --- Intermediality --- Early Modern Period

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_In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes_, scritte da Bernardino Baldi, vengono ristampate – provviste d'introduzione e commento – come quarto volume della collana _Sources_ della _Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge_, la versione Italiana di _Sources 3_. Il volume è disponibile in internet senza limitazioni d'accesso anche come pubblicazione elettronica _open-access_ all'indirizzo www.edition-open-access.de. Il testo venne pubblicato nel 1621, quattro anni dopo la morte dell’autore. Questo libro appartiene alla lunga tradizione rinascimentale concernente lo studio dei _Problemi Meccanici_ pseudo-aristotelici. A differenza della maggior parte delle altre opere scritte durante il XVI secolo, tuttavia, il testo di Baldi esprime una posizione critica nei confronti dell’approccio teorico presente nelle meccaniche pseudo-aristoteliche. Il testo delle _Exercitationes_ mostra una sistematica applicazione dei principi archimedei alla spiegazione delle questioni discusse nei _Problemi Meccanici_ e, dunque, illustra chiaramente la struttura a forma di patchwork della meccanica preclassica. Il testo, inoltre, presenta lunghe digressioni che ampliano considerevolmente i confini della meccanica. The _Exercitationes_ were first published in 1621, four years after the death of the author. The work belongs to the long tradition of studies on the pseudo-Aristotelian _Mechanical Problems_ developed during the Renaissance but, unlike most other works written during the sixteenth century, it takes a critical position against the theoretical approach of the pseudo-Aristotelian text. The _Exercitationes_ display a systematic application of Archimedean principles to the explanation of the questions discussed in _Mechanical Problems_ illustrating the patchwork character of preclassical mechanics. Moreover, Baldi's work presents lengthy digressions that considerably widen the boundaries of mechanics.

Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Applied Mathematics --- early modern period --- MPRL --- Edition Open Access --- mechanics --- history of science --- Mechanica. --- early modern period --- MPRL --- Edition Open Access --- mechanics --- history of science

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The book presents Guidobaldo del Monte's first book from 1577, the Mechanicorum liber, which is reprinted here in a facsimile edition. The book is a comprehensive treatise on mechanics dealing with the five simple machines, the lever, the pulley, the wheel on an axle, the wedge and the screw. Their properties were in turn derived from the workings of the balance and the lever. The idea that every mechanism can be reduced to these five simple machines goes back to Heron of Alexandria and has been transmitted to the early modern period by Pappus, while the foundational role of balance and lever goes back to the Problemata mechanica ascribed to Aristotle.

Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Applied Mathematics --- early modern period --- MPRL --- Edition Open Access --- mechanics --- history of science

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"For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality. The era of transition begins with More's Utopia (1516), in which privacy is forbidden. It ends with Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), in which privacy is a good to be celebrated. In between come Shakespeare's plays, paintings by Titian and Vermeer, devotional manuals, autobiographical journals, and the poetry of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, all of which Huebert carefully analyses in order to illuminate the dynamic and emergent nature of early modern privacy."--

English literature --- Privacy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700 --- Classical Period --- Early Modern Period

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Als Region weist das Banat zahlreiche Eigenheiten auf, die auf seine spezifische geografische Lage, der multi- und interkulturellen Prägung seiner Struktur und der kulturellen Vielfalt seiner Menschen zurückzuführen sind. Der Band lädt ein, sich mit den Eigenheiten der lokalen und regionalen Verwaltung im Banat vertraut zu machen. Er legt den Fokus auf die Entwicklung der spezifischen Kultur, thematisiert das Einwirken von Ideologien, stellt einzelne Persönlichkeiten heraus und analysiert wichtige Gemeinschaftsinstitutionen. Das wichtigste Ziel der Beiträger/-innen und des Herausgebers ist es, die Bewohner/-innen des Banats selbst sichtbar werden zu lassen, ihre historischen Erfahrungen zu reflektieren, ihre Mentalitäten zu beschreiben und den Wandel ihrer Einstellungsmuster im Zeitverlauf darzustellen. Im vorliegenden Band geht es um weit mehr als um die Abfolge von geschichtlichen Ereignissen oder eine Aufzählung von Fakten. Durch seine interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise werden Grenzen der traditionellen Geschichtsschreibung überschritten. Victor Neumann ersetzt den üblichen politisch motivierten Schreibstil durch eine liberale und offene Erzählweise, die nicht nur grenzüberschreitend ist, sondern auch viele Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten eröffnet. As a region, the Banat has many unique features owing to its specific geographical location, its multi- and intercultural composition, and the cultural diversity of the people who live there. The goal of this volume is to shine a spotlight on the inhabitants of the Banat, to reflect upon their historical experiences, to describe their mentalities, and to show how their attitudes have changed over time.

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