For all things early modern science studies, including: history and philosophy of science, science in/as culture, scientific print and performance, transatlantic and global studies of science in empire
Grégoire Espesset deposited Traditional Chinese Knowledge before the Japanese Discovery of Western Science in Gabor Lukacs’ Kaitai Shinsho & Geka Sōden in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 day, 13 hours agoGabor Lukacs’ 2008 book on “Kaitai Shinsho: The Single Most Famous Japanese Book of Medicine & Geka Sōden: An Early Very Important Manuscript on Surgery” is a bibliographical contribution to the comparative history of the introduction of Western science in East Asia. It focuses on two illustrated manuals of anatomy and surgery in Japanese, adap…[Read more]
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Grégoire Espesset deposited Sketching out Portents Classification and Logic in the Monographs of Han Official Historiography in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 days, 13 hours agoIn ancient China, portentology was a “science” in its own right, a specialised field of knowledge developed by rational individuals who endeavoured to fathom the concealed mechanisms at work beneath the spectacles of history and the world at large. This paper focuses on the nomenclature of portents (observed phenomena interpreted as auspicious or…[Read more]
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Grégoire Espesset deposited The Invention of Buddho-Taoism: Critical Historiography of a Western Neologism, 1940s–2010s in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week ago“Buddho-Taoism” is a neologism that appeared in Western academic discourse during the late nineteen-forties, was put to various uses without being consensually defined, enjoyed a brief vogue around the turn of the twenty-first century, and began to fall from grace in recent years. This neologism implicitly created new epistemic repertoires der…[Read more]
Marco Heiles deposited Vierundzwanzig-Paragraphen-Text aus Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 1500,7. Edition in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoDiplomatische Transkription und Leseversion nach Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Hs. 1500,7, fol. 38r-43v
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Marco Heiles deposited Das Wunderbare in der deutschsprachigen Rezeptliteratur des 15. Jahrhunderts in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days agoDas Wunderbare in der deutschsprachigen Rezeptliteratur des 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Stefanie Kreuzer und Uwe Durst (Hg.), Das Wunderbare. Dimensionen eines Phänomens in Kunst und Kultur (Traum – Wissen – Erzählen 3), Paderborn: Fink 2018, S. 233–250.
Enrico Pasini deposited Sixth Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoIL REALE E L’IMMAGINARIO. Critica dell’infinito e dell’infinitesimo. Continuo reale e ideale. La metafisica del calcolo. Immaginario e immaginazione. Bibliografia
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Enrico Pasini deposited Fifth Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoMETAFISICA E MATEMATICA. Continuo e discreto. L’ambiguità dell’attimo. Il principio di continuità. Forza viva e forza morta. Tra Platone e Democrito
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Enrico Pasini deposited Fourth Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoL’INTERPRETAZIONE DEL CALCOLO. Il nuovo secolo. La ripresa delle ostilità. La giustificazione del calcolo infinitesimale. Tra sé e sé. Interpretazione e immaginario. Regole e princìpi
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Enrico Pasini deposited Third Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoLE PRIME CONTROVERSIE. Quantità incomparabilmente piccole. Il primo contendente. La disputa con Nieuwentijt. Irrealtà dell’infinitesimo. Ultimi strascichi polemici
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Enrico Pasini deposited Second Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoLA PUBBLICAZIONE DEL METODO. Un nuovo algoritmo. La scuola concorrente. Flussioni nel tempo e nello spazio
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Enrico Pasini deposited First Chapter of Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoLA NASCITA DEL CALCOLO LEIBNIZIANO: La geometria degli indivisibili. Infiniti indivisibili attuali. Gli anni d’apprendistato di Leibniz. L’aritmetica degli infinit.i Verso l’analisi infinitesimale. Il triangolo caratteristico. La fondazione del calcolo
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Enrico Pasini deposited Front Matter and Introduction to Enrico Pasini, Il reale e l’immaginario in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoINTRODUZIONE: Metafisica dell’infinitamente piccolo. L’analisi leibniziana. L’infinitesimo e il calcolo. La scomposizione del mutamento
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Enrico Pasini deposited Mathesis und Phantasie. Die Rolle der Einbildungskraft im Umfeld der Descartes’schen Regulae in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoA particular aspect of the confrontation between modern philosophy and the aristotelian tradition regards the so-called psychology of faculties. On this ground, it is for modern thought much harder, in comparison to the field of natural sciences, to differentiate itself from concepts, theories, and terminologies which characterize the still…[Read more]
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Enrico Pasini deposited Die private Kontroverse des G.W. Leibniz mit sich selbst. Handschriften über die Infinitesimalrechnung im Jahre 1702 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThe paper deals with Leibniz’s manuscript writings on the foundation of infinitesimal calculus since 1702: the mathematician’s late theory, and the preparatory works to his “Cum prodiisset atque increbuisset”, are presented. An edition of Leibniz’s unpublished DEFENSE DU CALCUL DE DIFFERENCES is provided as an Appendix.
Rachel Rafael Neis deposited When Species Meet in the Mishnah in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThis short essay considers rabbinic ideas of reproduction, likeness, and species variation in conversation with the work of Joann Sfar and Sunaura Taylor. Part of Ancient Jew Review’s Forum on Animals.
Marcelo Vitores deposited Vere Gordon Childe y la Arqueología Social Latinoamericana in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoEste escrito trata sobre la vinculación entre la obra de Vere Gordon Childe y los planteos de la Arqueología Social Latinoamericana que tomó explícitamente al primero como referente y estímulo inicial de una arqueología marxista que ligara el pasado y el presente. Se revisan algunas continuidades, diferencias y convergencias entre este arque…[Read more]
Alistair Kwan deposited “Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:” : the kymograph’s lost educational context in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoThe objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]
Christopher Collins deposited Poetics of the Medieval Dream in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoThe early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]
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Christopher Collins deposited Awareness and Attention: The Evolution of the Dyadic Mind. in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago[Abstract. This paper begins by examining some of the claims of Dual-Process Theory (also known as Dual-System Theory), in particular its opposition of rapid, intuitive, automatic thought processes to those that are relatively slow, analytic, and consciously controlled. The former traits we share with our primate cousins and with other mammals,…[Read more]
Gabriel Finkelstein deposited Haeckel and du Bois-Reymond: rival German Darwinists in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoErnst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This essay compares their contributions to popularizing the theory of evolution, drawing special attention to the neglected figure of du Bois-Reymond as a spokesman for a world devoid of natural purpose. It suggests that the historiography of the German…[Read more]
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