Propaganda e crítica social nas cronologias dos almanaques astrológicos durante a Guerra Civil inglesa no século XVII
This article is part of an extensive investigation carried out concerning the use of astrological almanacs during the English Civil War in the 17th century as a medium for propaganda and social criticism. During that conflict there were astrologers who were partisans of the Parliament, such as John Booker, and other who supported the King, such as George Wharton. This work analyses some of those publications, showing that the political commitment of the authors was noticeable in an explicit form (and sometimes in an indirect way) in those almanacs.
The Royalist War Effort
IN previous years a certain anecdote has received frequent quotation in works upon the Civil War. It concerns a husbandman at Marston Moor, who was ploughing his fields when the rival armies drew up there to fight the biggest battle of the war. On hearing that the conflict was produced by a quarrel between King and Parliament he replied ‘What, has they two fallen out again?’ It is time that this engaging character vanished from the pages of history. Not merely does the incident not occur in any contemporary source, but it is inherently ridiculous. The land concerned lies a few miles from York, site of a Royalist garrison to which such a farmer would have been forced to contribute money for the previous two years. For the past three months it had been besieged by an army of nearly 30,000 men, some of whom would certainly have requisitioned supplies from the hero of the story. His ignorance is as incredible as the flippancy with which he is said to have greeted the news of the fratricidal conflict between the two traditional guardians of the Common Weal. In place of this happy portrait of rural insouciance, successive local studies are drawing a picture of the Civil War as a terrible and protracted conflict which imposed unprecedented burdens upon the local community.
Research on velocity distribution in semi-dry flue gas desulfurization tower
As an accurate high-quality instantaneous measurement technology, particle image velocimetry (PIV in acronym) has applied widely in single-phase flow and multiphase flow. The velocity distribution in semi-dry FGD tower directly influences gas-solid mix and contact situation. In base of the tower, gas-solid two-phase flow field is more complex, and has the quite tremendous influence to the overall system desulphurization efficiency. This paper utilized PIV to study velocity distribution in Semi-dry flue gas desulfurization tower and obtained velocity distribution.