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 | Een biografie van professor Hilmar Johannes Backer Ulco Kooystra |2009 Hilmar Johannes Backer was hoogleraar organische chemie aan de RUG van 1916 tot 1952. In zijn onderzoek was hij een syntheticus pur sang; het maken van nieuwe chemische verbindingen en het vinden van betere syntheses voor al bestaande stoffen was… |
 | Peter Abbink |2009 The central questions of this research are the following: What was the Antarctic policy of the Netherlands from the late 1950s until 1990? What were its motives, goals, means and effects? What were the roles of the government, the scientific… |
 | Jan Meulenbeld |2009 Research on the Āyurvedic materia medica, in particular its drugs of plant origin, is a venture bristling with pitfalls despite the apparent confidence displayed in the lists of botanical identifications of medicinal plants in numerous publications on the subject. This… |
 | Oliver Hellwig |2009 Between 900 and 1500 C.E., the knowlegde of Indian alchemy was codified in a group of Sanskrit texts that deal with the ideas and the methods of this scientific tradition. The dictionary explains about 400 technical terms and names of… |
 | Werner Riess (ed.) |2008 The idea of education and learning (paideia) was central to ancient Greek thought. The Latin orator and author Apuleius of Madauros adapted the Greek concept of paideia and conveyed it to a Latin audience in his main works, the only extant Latin… |