scholarly journals XIM4 meeting report, Sept. 25-27 2019, Padua (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e002
Author(s):  
Hervé Cochard ◽  
Giai Petit ◽  
José M. Torres-Ruiz ◽  
Sylvain Delzon
Keyword(s):  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Salient Points ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The fourth edition of the international xylem meeting was held for the first time outside France. This represents an important step forward for the meeting and attests to the resolutely international dimension of this symposium. The conference was organized by the University of Padua in the green setting of the botanical garden. No less than 140 researchers from more than 21 countries attended these three intense days of seminars and discussions. For logistical reasons, the number of places had been limited by the organizers, which forced us to decline a number of registrations. This tends to prove, if there was any need, that the community of researchers in xylem physiology and plant hydraulic functioning is booming, and that these meetings are becoming an essential biennial event for our discipline. For this edition, no less than a hundred communications were presented, including about fifty plenary talks. It is difficult to summarize all the richness of this work in a few lines, so we propose here to highlight some of the most salient points.

scholarly journals The Physics Cabinet of the University of Padua. At the crossroads between Veneto and Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Fanny Marcon ◽  
Giulio Peruzzi ◽  
Sofia Talas
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
International Scientific Community ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Material Evidence

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, new lectures in natural philosophy based on direct and immediate demonstrations began to spread through Europe. Within this context, a chair of experimental philosophy was created at the University of Padua in 1738, and the new professor, Giovanni Poleni, established a Cabinet of Physics, which became very well known in eighteenth-century Europe. In the following two centuries, Poleni’s successors continued to acquire thousands of instruments used for teaching and research, which today are held at the Museum of the History of Physics of the University of Padua. The present paper describes the main peculiarities of the collection, comprising instruments from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. We also discuss the current acquisition policy of the museum, aimed at collecting material evidence of the research and teaching activities in physics that are carried out in Padua today. We will outline both the local peculiarities of the collection and its international dimension, based on the contacts that have been established throughout the centuries between Padua and the international scientific community. Some aspects of the circulation of scientific knowledge in Europe and beyond will thus also emerge.

ABO Blood Groups in Hypophyseal Adenomas

1964 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Iraci ◽  
Gian Guido Toffolo
Keyword(s):  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Blood Groups ◽  
Histological Type ◽  
Abo Blood Groups ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Group Distribution

The statistical significance of variations in Wood group distribution among patients affected by chromophobe pituitary adenoma has been debated in recent reports. One hundred and fifty hypophyseal tumors (117 chromophobe adenomas and 33 adenomas of other histological type), operated for the first time at the Institute of Neurosurgery of the University of Padua, have been collected for such an analysis. No difference of statistical significance was detected by the present survey, although this fact is probably due to the small numbers of patients in each subgroup.

scholarly journals SuO012NEPHROLOGY IN DE MEDICINA METHODICA LIBRI TREDECIM (1611) OF PROSPERO ALPINI READER AND OSTENSOR IN SIMPLEX AND PREFECT OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA IN THE YEAS 1593-1616

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (suppl_3) ◽  
pp. iii49-iii49
Author(s):  
Natale Gaspare De Santo ◽  
Carmela Bisaccia ◽  
Pietro Anastasio ◽  
Biagio Ricciardi ◽  
Biagio Di Iorio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Botanical Garden ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
De Medicina

scholarly journals A new species of Psathyrella (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Italy

MycoKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Giovanni Sicoli ◽  
Nicodemo G. Passalacqua ◽  
Antonio B. De Giuseppe ◽  
Anna Maria Palermo ◽  
Giuseppe Pellegrino
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Rdna Its ◽  
Rdna Its Region ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Sporophores of a newPsathyrellaspecies have been reported for the first time as growing at the base ofCladiummariscusculms in the Botanical Garden of the University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, southern Italy. The fungus was initially identified asP.thujina(=P.almerensis) by means of both ecology and macro- and microscopic characteristics of the basidiomes, then referred toP.cladii-mariscisp. nov. after extraction, amplification, purification and analysis of the rDNA ITS region. We came to this conclusion after comparing our specimen with the descriptions of the taxa available in the literature for the genusPsathyrella.

scholarly journals Galileo, Astrologer

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Antonio Favaro
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Time Part ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
Military Engineering ◽  
First Time

Editor's Note: Until the 1990s, there was no published work on Galileo's astrology except for the two papers published here by Antonio Favaro in Italian. These are presented here in English translation for the first time. Part 1: 'Galileo Astrologo' Editor's Note: This trailblazing essay by Antonio Favaro was composed a decade before he first started to publish his twenty-volume Opere* of Galileo's complete works, and was published in the periodical Mente e Cuore in 1881. Greatly ignored by scholars, it has of late been alluded to by Poppi and Ernst. The footnotes differ from the original in being numbered sequentially through the whole article; endnotes are added by Nick Kollerstrom. Part 2: Mathematics at the University of Padua before Galileo Editor's Note: Padua was Europe's second oldest university, after Bologna. One seeks in vain for anything written about its chair of mathematics, beyond this single essay by Favaro. This neglect is presumably on account of the central role which it assigned to astrology, down through the centuries. Santillana's essay The Crime of Galileo makes what one must view as a fictional statement, that,when Galileo accepted the Chair at Padua in 1592, 'The chair of mathematics then covered the teaching of geometry, astronomy, military engineering, and fortification' . That could describe Padua's mathematics chair a century later, perhaps in the 18th century. The first two paragraphs of Favaro's essay are here translated, and in addition two of Galileo's letters about his mathematics lectures are here reproduced, showing that the students who attended them were either philosophers or medical doctors - the latter, in order to learn how to erect a horoscope for the onset of disease.

scholarly journals Galileo's telescopic observations: the marvel and meaning of discovery

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S269) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
George V. Coyne
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Moon ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Intellectual Climate

AbstractDuring the very last year of what he himself described “as the best [eighteen] years of his life” spent at the University of Padua, Galileo first observed the heavens with a telescope. In order to appreciate the marvel and the true significance of those observations we must appreciate both the intellectual climate in Europe and the critical intellectual period through which Galileo himself was passing at the time those observations were made. Through his studies on motion Galileo had come to have serious doubts about the Aristotelian concept of nature. What he sensed was lacking was a true physics. He was very acute, therefore, when he came to sense the significance of his observations of the moon, of the phases of Venus, of the moons of Jupiter and of the Milky Way. The preconceptions of the Aristotelians were crumbling before his eyes. He had remained silent long enough, over a three month period, in his contemplations of the heavens. It was time to organize his thoughts and tell what he had seen and what he thought it meant. It was time to publish! In so doing he would become one of the pioneers of modern science. For the first time in over 2,000 years new significant observational data had been put at the disposition of anyone who cared to think, not in abstract preconceptions but in obedience to what the universe had to say about itself.

scholarly journals Status of Some Escaped Ornament Perennials in the Flora of Latvia

Botanica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Inese Nāburga ◽  
Pēteris Evarts-Bunders
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Asclepias Syriaca ◽  
Rudbeckia Hirta ◽  
Phlox Paniculata ◽  
Artemisia Ludoviciana ◽  
Herbarium Collections ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

AbstractThis paper introduces eight ornamental perennial garden escapees that were recorded by the authors of this article on Lucavsala Island, Riga (Latvia) in 2016. Our data on Achillea ptarmica cv. ‘Boule de Neige’, Artemisia ludoviciana, Asclepias syriaca, Campanula lactiflora, Heliopsis helianthoides, Lathyrus latifolius, Phlox paniculata and Rudbeckia hirta contribute to the knowledge about the occurrence of these taxa in wild. All these species are also growing in the collection of ornamental perennials in the Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia. A review of these species in Latvian herbarium collections has been conducted. Five species, Heliopsis helianthoides, Artemisia ludoviciana, Campanula lactiflora, Lathyrus latifolius, Phlox paniculata, were observed for the first time outside cultivation forming relatively stable, reproducing populations. Two species, Achillea ptarmica multiplex cultivar and Rudbeckia hirta, were previously observed in seminatural habitats and, thus, considered as casual aliens at the naturalization stage. One of the species, Asclepias syriaca, was considered a new to Latvia casual alien species with high potential of invasiveness.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

More Christian Apocrypha

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Tony Burke
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Scholars interested in the Christian Apocrypha (CA) typically appeal to CA collections when in need of primary sources. But many of these collections limit themselves to material believed to have been written within the first to fourth centuries CE. As a result a large amount of non-canonical Christian texts important for the study of ancient and medieval Christianity have been neglected. The More Christian Apocrypha Project will address this neglect by providing a collection of new editions (some for the first time) of these texts for English readers. The project is inspired by the More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project headed by Richard Bauckham and Jim Davila from the University of Edinburgh. Like the MOTP, the MCAP is envisioned as a supplement to an earlier collection of texts—in this case J. K. Elliott’s The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford 1991), the most recent English-language CA collection (but now almost two decades old). The texts to be included are either absent in Elliott or require significant revision. Many of the texts have scarcely been examined in over a century and are in dire need of new examination. One of the goals of the project is to spotlight the abilities and achievements of English (i.e., British and North American) scholars of the CA, so that English readers have access to material that has achieved some exposure in French, German, and Italian collections.

16th and 17th Workshops of the International Association of Vegetation Science Working Group for the European Vegetation Survey (Rome, Italy, 22-26 March 2007; Brno, Czech Republic, 1-5 May 2008)

2008 ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
T. M. Lysenko ◽  
Yu. A. Semenishchenkov
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Association ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Vegetation Survey ◽  
Vegetation Science ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Working

22-26 March 2007 in Rome (Italy), in the Botanical garden of the University «La Sapienza» hosted the 16th meeting of the Working group «Review of the Vegetation of Europe» of the International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS). These meetings are held every spring in one of the European countries and dedicated to various topics.

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