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A Book on al-Khazini’s Book on the Balance of Wisdom
This project studies the book ’Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini’s Kitab Mizan al-hikma (The Book of the Balance of Wisdom). This project aims to produce a tra
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A draft English translation of Khazini’s book has been prepared. It is superior to the complete Russian and partial English, French, and German transl
Experience in Translation: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World
This working group presents a global palette of historical and philosophical studies on the ways in which experience—as a tool and object of science—t
Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World
Scientific experience underlies the unquestioned methods of observation and experimentation in all sciences of the living world today. Before the earl
Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650
MoreExperience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650
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Between ca. 800–1650, the Aristotelian sciences of soul and body and Galenic-Avicennian medicine spread from the Islamic World to Europe, to the Americas, and to East Asia. Most histories propose that the empirical method, encapsulated in the terms “experiment” and “observation,” began later, in the early modern period.
Erfahrung in den vormodernen Wissenschaften von Körper und Geist ca. 800–1650
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Von 800 bis 1650 breiteten sich die aristotelischen Wissenschaften von Körper und Geist wie auch die galenisch-avicennische Medizin in der islamischen Welt, in Europa, in Lateinamerika und in Ostasien aus. Zahlreiche Historiographien setzen den Beginn der empirischen Methode, der brennpunktartig in den Begriffen „Experiment“ und „Beobachtung“ seinen Ausdruck findet, in der frühen Neuzeit an.
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
Human/Animal Division in Nineteenth-Century Russian Medical and Ethnographic Accounts
Based upon works of medical practitioners and ethnographers, the project explores the environmental imagery of animal waste and the corresponding huma