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The Strange as Knowledge: Collecting the Anomalous and Marvelous within Late Imperial China
In this project, I am interested in how the strange was conceived as an ontological, epistemological, and moral category within Chinese encyclopedias
Agriculture in the Mamluk Period before and after the Mongol Invasion
My research focuses on agricultural knowledge and methods from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in Bilād al-Shām and Egypt to be found in agric
Subjectivity and Diagnosis in Greek and Roman Medicine
What role, if any, did empathy play in the epistemology of healing within Greco-Roman rational medicine? This is the ultimate question of my project,
Kepler/Copernicus
The transformation of the geocentrical to the heliocentrical cosmology evolved during a long period of time. In the first period in early medieval tim
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By combining two earlier traditions, Copernicus formulated a heliocentrical variant of Arabic predecessor models –a variant that resulted in the rapid
The Cardiovascular Origins of Early Modern Neuroscience
Scientists and physicians are not immune to the excesses of enthusiasm, and in the middle of the seventeenth century no single achievement gained more
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in FAZ on traveler, naturalist, and writer Adelbert von Chamisso
Go to Article (German)(Un)scientific Methods: Debating Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islam
Hannah Erlwein is currently working on her second book, with the working title (Un)scientific Methods: Debating Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Isla
Hermeneutics of the Field: The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Agriculture
This project seeks to identify a heuristic epistemology that lies between practical knowledge and theoretical explanation in early modern European agr
German Scientists, their Observationes, and Ties to the Latin Americas in the Seventeenth Century
In the seventeenth century, the mobility of knowledge arising from contact with the Latin Americas extended beyond Iberia to German scientists. In 162