Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Miskawayh, Biruni and Biological Evolutionary Theory by H Miandari

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Ikhwan al-Safa, Ibn Miskawayh, Biruni and Biological Evolutionary Theory by Dr Hassan Miandari

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Barock zoologi by Rikard Wingård

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Introduction to the Ontology of Cosmic Order in Pre-modern Thinking by mojtaba etemadinia

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Darwinian Beauty by Santiago Ginnobili

“…This idea was a presupposition in some versions of the great chain of being and in the idea that beauty was an objective characteristic of creation that could explain the possession of many traits of organisms. …”
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The Great Chains of Computing: Informatics at Multiple Scales by Kevin Kirby, James Walden, Rudy Garns, Maureen Doyle

“…We then explore the analogy to the principles of plenitude and continuity that feature in Western thought, under the name of the "great chain of being", from Plato through Leibniz and beyond, and show that the pancomputational turn is a modern counterpart of this ruling idea. …”
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Nature as a Huge Organism: Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837) and Early Ecology in German Romantic Science by Sophie Ruppel

“…The historical background and 18th-century ideas Treviranus relies on will be described—namely, the ‘great chain of being’, the idea of nature as a vast network of interconnected living beings and the question about the existence of vital forces that cause movement, growth or reproduction. …”
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Cat metaphors in Malay and English proverbs by Muhammad, Nurul Nadia, Md Rashid, Sabariah

“…The data analysis focused on the examination of the meanings and metaphorical schemas of the respective proverbs using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Great Chain of Being framework. The analysis revealed that the meanings associated with cat in Malay and English proverbs do not conform to the common proposition of Lakoff and Turner. …”
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Similarities And Differences Of English And Malay Feline Proverbs: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach by Adilah, Siti Mukhlisa Mohamad Khairul

“…The first framework entails the identification of conceptual domains and representations that the proverbs carry along with the commonalities and variations available in both languages, and the latter framework focuses on the four components, namely the Naïve Theory of the Nature in Things, the Great Chain of Being, the Generic is Specific Metaphor, and the Maxim of Quantity; to explore the differences based on the crosscultural factors in the proverbs. …”
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Do We Need a “Reverse Translation”? Shakespeare’s Sonnets Translated by Samuil Marhsak and by Yves Bonnefoy by Margarita V. Cherkashina

“…The analysis demonstrates that Marshak’s consistent simplification of Shakespeare’s complex metaphor reduces it to simple analogies, while leveling out the multifaceted image of nature connected with the categories of time and death, as well as with the image of the man gaining power over nature (at the cost of breaking the “great chain of being”). At the same time, Bonnefoy’s later translations (using free verse, enjambments and breaking the sonnet form) demonstrate much greater precision and provide an actual interpretation of the sonnet in the process of translation itself. …”
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“Lowliness majestic” : androcentric patriarchy, queerness, and the equivocal meekness of eve in John Milton’s paradise lost by Ng, Ian Alexander

“…Second, Milton destabilizes the rigid nature of divine hierarchy by promoting an egalitarian and meritocratic version of the Great Chain of Being. Third, he establishes a praiseworthy commonality between Eve and Jesus’ virtuous, feminine meekness. …”
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