Tweehonderd jaar geleden begon Alexander Numan (1780-1852), de grondlegger van het veterinaire onderwijs in Nederland, aan zijn colleges in de Algemene Ziektekunde aan de pas opgerichte 'sRijks Veeartsenijschool in Utrecht. Van deze colleges is een handgeschreven collegedictaat bewaard gebleven. Hierin gaat Numan uitvoerig in op de ziekteclassificatie, de oorzaken van ziekte en de ziektesymptomen, in de traditie van de klassieke achttiende-eeuwse geneeskunde.

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This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. This new revised edition includes more than 100 additional artic...

Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style astr...