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Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall: Knowledge of Astronomy and Divination
In the middle of the fourteenth century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, expanded a city in Nanjing with the power of the who
Experience, Philosophy, and Expertise: The Foundations of Syriac Medicine
Bar ʿAlī (ninth century CE) was the most important lexicographer of Syriac medical science. As a student of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, he is one of the key figu
A New History of Medieval Science: Ideas, Objects, and Instruments in Europe and Islamdom, 800–1650
I will be working on chapters for a co-authored book, intended for an audience of students, historians of modern science, and lay readers, on medieval
Mengxi Zhao
Mengxi Zhao is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) at the...
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Daniel Morgan
Daniel Patrick Morgan is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)...
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Putting Knowledge to Practice: “Reading” Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
This project critically examines peasant knowledge and practice in land use in the medieval Levant through a combination of archaeological and textual
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac
The Logic of Experience in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition
Following Arabic interpretations of Aristotelian logic, medieval Hebrew logicians considered things apprehended directly by the senses or by the intel
Medieval Ingenium: Knowledge, Experience, and Technology
This project considers twelfth- and thirteenth-century Western European thought and literature, in particular machines as models for thought and the r
Michael Puett
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard Un...
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