
Yuan Tao
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020–Sep 2025)
Yuan Tao studied history as an undergraduate student at Peking University. After obtaining her Bachelors in history in 2017, she moved on to a Masters program at Harvard Divinity School and received her Master of Theological Studies in 2019 with a focus on the history of Christianity. Yuan is presently a PhD candidate at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at the MPIWG in the research group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body, ca. 800–1650.” She is working on the doctrine of sense perception of the Coimbra Commentaries and its reception in seventeenth-century Europe and China.
Projekte
A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
Past Events
Research Colloquium
Albert the Great on the Habit of Physics
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Shape of Water: Tracing the Beginning of a Wave Theory of Sound
MOREResearch Colloquium
Reflections of the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Sensible Body of the Spanish Medical Enlightenment: The Reception of John Brown's Elementa Medicinae and Its Discontents (1798–1805)
MOREResearch Colloquium
Lepers and Others: Imagining Diseases from Afar
MOREResearch Colloquium
Kepler's Labors: Figurations of Scholarly Work c. 1600
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Horrific Body in Sophocles
MOREResearch Colloquium
Early Christian Neoplatonist Contemplation
MOREResearch Colloquium
A World of Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
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