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Traveling the Graphic Tactility: Chinese Pulse Illustrations in Seventeenth Century Europe
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when European sojourners in China introduced Chinese pulse diagnosis to the West, many of them deployed g
The Evolution of Scientific Visual Language in Early Modern Science: A Machine-Learning Based Analysis
This research wishes to define and describe the evolution of visual language in early modern astronomy. This project is a part of the research group “
Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine
The appearance of unusual or non-normative physical, intellectual, and developmental traits in newborn infants perplexed premodern medical and literar
Child Development and Its Histories
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Lunar Diagrams and Representations in Byzantine and Slavonic Manuscripts (9th–15th Century)
The present project continues the process of decentralisation of existing history of science narratives and introduces Byzantium and the Black Sea reg
Eco-Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Context of Climate Change
The possibility of collapse is an opportunity for existentialism to reinvent itself. Yet this renewal presupposes deep transformations, deeply new way
Latin into Hebrew: Medieval Natural Science across Linguistic Boundaries
The Latin-into-Hebrew transmission of scholastic texts is a neglected chapter in the prolific history of medieval European knowledge-making. Most of t
'Ein Blick in das Ganze der Natur' heute – Hommage an Michel Serres
MehrRepresentations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
This project explores visualizations of the cosmos in writing and objects in the Western Mediterranean region during Hellenistic times (ca&n
Sietske Fransen
Sietske Fransen studied biology and medieval studies at Utrecht University, before receiving her...
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