From the eleventh century to the eighteenth century,there were four cold periods,which separately appeared in the years 1170-1200,1480 - 1530,1650-1720 and 1820-1890,the prime time being in the middle of the seventeenth century and the period lasting 180 years or so.
I think that the development and change of western historiography was closely related to the problem of ‘the general crisis of the seventeenth century’.
This Chapter is divided into four parts which centres on the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882. Part 1 is about the early history of the negotiable instruments, from Part 2 to Part 4 is about its history during the seventeenth century to the year 1882, then there is a few words about the development after the issue of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882. There are few statutes in the UK due to its tradition of the common law jurisdiction.
We can judge that Galileo was one of the revolutionist of philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth century according to his scientific thinking, scientific spirits and scientific methods, which influenced on the development of human thoughts.
The creation of false memories, psychiatric symptoms and false allegations of satanic child abuse during an outbreak of witch hysteria in Sweden in the seventeenth century are described and related to contemporary issues in child testimonies.
Cotton has been planted at the Yangtze Delta for about seven or eight hundred years. There have been three periods of the development of the cropping system in the cotton area:1. Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, rice-cotton rotation, fallowing or planting green manure in winter has been adopted in the cotton area.In the sections of higher population density, however, cotton-barley(wheat)double cropping was the major form.At that time, the relay-interplanting of cotton and barley (...
According to 300 geographical and historical references the south boundaries of snow events in Guang Dong since 1500 A. D. are given in each half century and compared with the observed south bounrary of snow events of 108 meteorological stations in 1950- 1985. A little variations can be seen in East Guang Dong and all the historical boundaries locate in the south side of the modern boundary in Central Guang Dong. Much variations of the historical boundaries are seen in West Guang Dong, maximum amplitu...
Natural disasters usually appear in clusters. In this paper, a preliminary analysis of the clustered natural disasters is made, which takes north China in the seventeenth century as an example. It is also indicated that the complicated mutural effects of different natural fact ors are the internal causes of the clustered natural disasters, and solar activties and meetings of the planets are the external causes.