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A Study on the Roman Garden Vision in Pliny the Elder's the Natural History (대 플리니우스의 「자연사」에 나타난 고대 로마의 정원관 연구)

  • Hwang, Juyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.51 no.5
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 2023
  • This study investigates the garden vision of the Ancient Rome, focusing on garden literature in the Natural History by Pliny the Elder. Ancient Roman garden's types, character, and forms greatly influenced the development of later Western gardens, to which the practical and professional texts of Pliny the Elder and others contributed. This study explores the garden visions projected in these texts, with an introduction of Roman garden forms and stylistic features. The Natural History and other garden and agricultural texts written during the Ancient Roman period are characterized by their focus on practical production spaces rather than abstract nature or garden art. In the Natural History, Pliny described botanics in terms of usefulness rather than pleasure, and his discussion is premised on the practical hortus. In ancient Roman society, gardens were not only spaces for practical production and relaxation, and places to reproduce or realize the ideals of Roman rulers and intellectuals, including Pliny. They shared the episteme that sought to encompass knowledge of the entire world they ruled and, in doing so, realize their vision of the Roman Empire. Through the Natural History, Pliny sought to embrace useful knowledges of his time into the vast civilized world of the Roman Empire, and the garden was an important place to practice this ideal.

Morphological Analysis Study for the Development of DB on the Manufacture Process of Prescription and Medicinal Food (처방 및 약선요리 제조 과정의 데이터베이스 구축을 위한 형태소 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Thae-Yul;Hwang, Su-Jung;Kim, Ki-Wook;Lee, Byung-Wook
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.79-90
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : Treatment using foods has already been recorded since the time of Zhou Dynasty of China. Modifications in the cooking process of medicinal food or manufactural process of herbal medicines are accompanied by the alterations in the ingredients that affect the actual efficacies of medicinal food or herbal medicine, and may have marked effects on the patients including the difficulties that may be experienced in consuming the food or taking the medicine. Therefore, systemic management is essential in such processes. Accordingly, management of such knowledge system must be standardized and conveniently administered by grafting IT technology. This study aims to overcome the problem of the failure of the knowledge system on the material-oriented medicinal herbs to apply the knowledge on the cooking process that impart marked influence on the actual efficacies of the medicinal herbs. Methods : Therefore, analysis of the cooking process or manufacturing processes of prescriptions was executed by using the morphological analysis method in natural language. In this study, we aimed to make data structure of the terminologies that represent manufacture process of prescription and medicinal food. The data structure is combinations of smallest unit in natural language. We made the database by analyzing morpheme of the natural language to express the manufacture process of prescription and medicinal food. Results & Conclusions : As the results, we can express making process of Cheonjin-won, Guseon-wangdogo and Sanyagbaegboglyeongtalagjuk in DB. It was concluded that the development of DB through the extraction of a total of 15 types of concepts including 'order', 'action' and 'continuous action', etc. was helpful in systematization of the knowledge on medicinal herbs including the manufacturing process.

A PROOF OF THE LEGENDRE DUPLICATION FORMULA FOR THE GAMMA FUNCTION

  • Park, In-Hyok;Seo, Tae-Young
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 1998
  • There have been various proofs of the Legendre duplication formula for the Gamma function. Another proof of the formula is given here and a brief history of the Gamma function is also provided.

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The Ancient Understanding of Epidemic Development (고대인들의 역병 인식;"삼국사기"를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Seong-Woong;Yoo, Woon-Jun;Kim, Hong-Kyoon
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.39-43
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    • 2007
  • The history of medicine has a strong correlation to the ancient development of epidemics. Although the study of the history of East Asian Traditional Medicine does not put much emphasis in understanding the flow of medical history in relation to epidemics, it largely impacted the development of this epidemic and the compilation and evolution of treatment methods. The same was true for Korea as they linked development of epidemics, unusual natural conditions, and social phenomenons from ancient documents. This study methodically classifies the epidemics mentioned in ${\ulcorner}$三國史記${\lrcorner}$ and concludes on how ancient Koreans understood epidemics.

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