Citations:apodemic

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English citations of apodemic

Noun[edit]

  • 2001, Wolf Feuerhahn, “A Theologian's List and an Anthropologist's Prose: Michaelis, Niebuhr, and the Expedition to Felix Arabia”, in William Clark, transl., edited by Peter Becker and William Clark, Little Tools of Knowledge: Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices (Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany)‎[1], University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:
    By the last quarter of the sixteenth century, apodemics—from the Greek “to travel”—had appeared as a genre. Such apodemics effected a “methodization” of academic travel and were closely related to the evolution of “Statistik” and the “statistical gaze” in the Germanies
  • 2008 May, Vanessa Agnew, Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (ACLS Fellows' publications)‎[2], Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
    For those visitors who could not afford a reputable cicerone to usher them around Europe's antiquity collections and curiosity cabinets, the apodemic was an indispensable companion: It provided the reassurance that they were traveling as they ought and seeing and doing what was socially (and professionally) expected of them.
  • 2021 May 25, Heiko Droste, translated by Madeleine Hurd, The Business of News (Library of the Written Word)‎[3], BRILL, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:
    The apodemics, that is texts that discussed travel in theoretical terms, increasing numbers of which were published after the end of the sixteenth century, were particularly helpful.

Noun/adjective[edit]

  • 2019 September 23, Hjalmar Fors, Jacob Orrje, “Describing the World and Shaping the Self: Knowledge-Gathering, Mobility and Spatial Control at the Swedish Bureau of Mines”, in Lothar Schilling, Jakob Vogel, editors, Transnational Cultures of Expertise: Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th centuries (Colloquia Augustana; 36)‎[4], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116:
    In apodemic handbooks, early modern European travellers could read of methods for how to structure and describe their voyages. In this tradition, the travel journal was seen as the most important result of a voyage.

Adjective[edit]

  • 1994 August 1, Jill Bepler, “The Traveller-Author And His Role In Seventeenth-Century German Travel Accounts”, in Z.R.W.M. von Martels, editor, Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)‎[5], BRILL, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
    Published in handbooks, dissertations or appended to topographical works and guide books, apodemic theories determined modes of observation and description throughout the seventeenth century. The traveller was given advice on how to prepare himself for his journey, which rules to observe while travelling and how exactly to plan his study of each region and town in order to extract the maximum information on its topography and administration.
  • 2016 July 24, Göran Rydén, “How Eighteenth-Century “Travelers in Trade” Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems”, in Patrick Manning, Daniel Rood, editors, Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850[6], University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:
    Along these lines the apodemic tradition must be linked to mercantilism, as a systematic approach to travel to see the wonders of nature, and to describe them in an objective way; God had given man eyes to view his creation.
  • 2017 August 1, Meelis Friedenthal, The Willow King[7], Steerforth Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
    These lands and their cities were completely uncharted from an apodemic perspective—after all, anyone who travelled for personal pleasure would go elsewhere, to the south.

Biology: not endemic[edit]

  • 1899, Edward Meyrick, “Macrolepidoptera”, in David Sharp, editor, Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands (Fauna Hawaiiensis)‎[8], volume 1, The University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 127, part 2:
    Lycaena exhibits one apodemic species, the very widely distributed L. baetica, which occurs in many Pacific islands, Australia, Asia, Africa, and Europe; and one endemic species, by no means very close to any other []
  • [1899, Edward Meyrick, “Macrolepidoptera”, in David Sharp, editor, Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands (Fauna Hawaiiensis)‎[9], volume 1, The University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125, part 2:
    Endemic denotes that a species or genus is apparently confined to these islands. I define apodemic as the opposite of endemic; it signifies that a form occurs outside the islands as well as in them.]
  • 1928, FW Edwards, Insects of Samoa: Part VI, Fascicle 2[10], volume 4, number 6, Trustees of the British Museum, pages 26–27:
    Such species would readily find lodgment in small collections of humus in ships or canoes, especially those carrying cattle, and this has no doubt been the means of transport of most of the apodemic species.
  • 1967, A. Diakonoff, Microlepidoptera of the Philippine Islands (United States National Museum Bulletin; volume 257)‎[11], volume 257, U.S. Government Printing Office, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
    The most characteristic feature of the fauna without doubt is its high percentage of endemisms, especially of the species. Of the total of 291 species, 203 are endemic, 88 apodemic. Of the 138 genera, however, only 18 are endemic, 120 apodemic.

Biology: relating to the arthropod apodeme[edit]

  • 1893, Philip P. Calvert, “Catalogue Of The Odonata, Dragonflies, Of The Vicinity Of Philadelphia”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society[12], volume 20, Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161:
    Internally, at each of the sutures separating the pleural sclerites, is a chitinous ridge (apodeme), resulting from an infolding of the integument, to serve for muscular attachment. A development of apodemic processes and the fusion thereof, forms, on the floor of the mesothorax and of the anterior part of the metathorax, a tunnel (neural canal) for the ventral nerve-cord.
  • 2009, Jean Just, “Pleustidae”, in Zootaxa[13], volume 2260, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 836–840:
    Pleonites 1 and 2 each with dorsal carina and dorsoposterior projection, strong lateral apodemic ridge with rounded posterior projection; epimeron 2 with acutely pointed posteroventral corner.
  • 2011, Eszter Lazanyi, Zoltan Korsos, “Revision of the Megaphyllum projectum Verhoeff species complex (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)”, in Zootaxa[14], volume 2864, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 45:
    Female vulvae were prepared in Faure-Berlése medium and after some hours of incubation the internal structure of vulvae (e.g. apodemic tube, ampulla and appendix) were drawn under a light microscope (Leica DM-1000).