Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.... by Karl Johns (trans & ed.), Alexander Conze

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"Sibirien beginnt in der Hasenheide" - Alexander von Humboldts Neigung zur Moquerie by Ingo Schwarz, Kurt-R. Biermann

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Moral theology and the cosmological argument. Comments and delibera¬tions on a little-known Reflection of Kant by Stark W.

“…A central reflection bearing on this point, R 4582 (AA, XVII, S. 601), will also be used to clarify several features of Erich Adickes’s methodology in preparing the Nachlaß volumes of the Kant-Ausgabe published by the former Prussian Academy of Sciences.…”
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Les illusions perdues. Süssmilch, l’Académie de Berlin et Frédéric II : échec d’une politique de population by Jean-Marc Rohrbasser

“…After publishing the first version of his masterpiece The Divine order in the changes in the human sex from birth, death and reproduction of the same in 1741, the pastor Süssmilch, joined the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The book presented a particular application of a doctrine then in vogue: natural theology. …”
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