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The language of medicine in the "Philosophical Transactions" : Observations on style
No full textMedicine is one of the most fully represented disciplines in the Philosophical Transactions (PT), particularly in the materials dating from before the establishment of medical societies and of specialized journals. Medical events were recorded and described, data were collected, interpreted, and discussed. The need for a faster communication among professionals brought about new written forms. Shorter texts were adopted to exchange up‐to‐date information.
This investigation focuses on a selected number of texts to verify the origin and the nature of any rhetorical and stylistic changes which may have occurred in the PT during the eighteenth century. The selection of extracts constitutes the basis for a detailed discussion of rhetorical and stylistic issues.
Between 1702 and 1801 medical writing in the PT undergoes major changes: these are gradual shifts along a continuum highlighting an essentially author-centered approach at the outset of the century and an object-centered perspective at the end of the period
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No full textUno zaino di ricordi invisibili. Vita e opere di Carl Sandburg
No full textLife and works of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), American poet, author of "Chicago Poems" (1916)
Deterministic recognizability of picture languages with Wang automata
No full textWe present a model of automaton for picture language recognition, calledWang automaton, which is based on labeled
Wang tiles. Wang automata combine features of both online tessellation acceptors and 4-way automata: as in online
tessellation acceptors, computation assigns states to each picture position; as in 4-way automata, the input head visits
the picture moving from one pixel to an adjacent one, according to some scanning strategy. Wang automata recognize
the class REC, i.e. they are equivalent to tiling systems or online tessellation acceptors, and hence strictly more
powerful than 4-way automata.
We also introduce a natural notion of determinism for Wang automata, and study the resulting class, extending the
more traditional approach of diagonal-based determinism, used e.g. by deterministic tiling systems. In particular, we
prove that the concept of row (or column) ambiguity defines the class of languages recognized by Wang automata
directed by boustrophedonic scanning strategies
"Una silenziosa litania operaia". L'America di Carl Sandburg
No full textThis paper aims to examine Carl Sandburg’s unusual trajectory from militant poet and socialist propagandist to standard-bearer for the American values of unity, freedom and progress. If in his first book, Chicago Poems, the author harshly criticized the American lifestyle and the capitalist system, over the years we witness a gradual transformation which mitigates Sandburg’s controversial positions, until he became an embodiment of the founding ideals of the nation and a symbol of the American Dream
Strategies to scan pictures with automata based on Wang tiles
No full textWang automata are devices for picture language recognition recently introduced by us, which characterize the class REC of recognizable picture languages. Thus, Wang automata are equivalent to tiling systems or online tessellation acceptors, and are based like Wang systems on labeled Wang tiles. The present work focus on scanning strategies, to prove that the ones Wang automata are based on are those following four kinds of movements: boustrophedonic, ``L-like'', ``U-like'', and spirals
"God bad us for to wexe and multiplye" : voci iperboliche nei Canterbury Tales
No full textIn the literary context of the late fourteenth-century London, a group of pilgrims sets off to the shrine of St Thomas à Beckett, in Canterbury. The journey gives each of them the possibility to interact with their fellow travellers and to express their individual feelings and thoughts, their interiority and imaginative world as well as their wordly experience, with its contradictory values, its tensions between feudalism and urban culture, its complex social relationships. This pilgrimage becomes the perfect setting for the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, two of the most complex and verbally aggressive characters of the Canterbury Tales
"The Author cannot help feeling himself under an obligation of apologising for the frequent egotisms”: the travelling self in medical geography
No full textThis study focuses on the travel experience of the British military physician and surgeon William Lempriere (b. before 1789, d. 1834) who was sent with the army to Gibraltar and Morocco (1789-1790), and later to Jamaica (1790s). When he came back to Great Britain, he published two personal accounts of his travels, these are A tour from Gibraltar [...] to Morocco (1791) and Practical observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica (1799). The two works belong to the tradition of medical geography, or travel accounts written by travelling physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, when practising medicine in the army and/or when exploring new places (e.g. Africa, East and West Indies). In the two works Lempriere’s professional experience is conveyed along with his personal perceptions and emotions, and his private ‘travelling gaze’. The research will provide textual and discursive evidence of personal expressions and, notably, of those language features and patterns which emphasise the representation of the travelling self
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