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Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens
The protected image database developed in the framework of the Working Group “Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens” reflects
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Database, Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens, Events, Visualizations of the Heavens—The Database as a Research Tool
Lecture Series 2022, Visualizations of the Heavens
Fieldworks of Early Modern Architectural Knowledge
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The theoretical development of architecture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries problematizes the meaning of “mechanical knowledge.” Architecture
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Presentation | Nov 28-Nov 29, 2019 | 00:00
History for Physics: Why Are There So Many Theories of Quantum Gravity?
MoreRegularity Theory of Causation
The regularity theory of causality of Graßhoff/May (2001) was able to refute an important objection against theories of regularity with the “Hooters p
Ancient Astronomy and Geography
The focus of this research area is the development of ancient astronomy from the earliest archaeoastronomical observational sites to elaborate Ptolema
Architecture and Geometry
From the earliest history of science onwards, ancient architecture has embodied complex geometrical knowledge. Architecture provides the largest body
Astronomy of the Early Modern Era
This research area studies turning points in the history of modern astronomy in Copernicus and Kepler.
Causality and Causal Reasoning
Models of causal reasoning based on an advanced theory of causal regularity explain causal reasoning in the history of science, and are the core of co
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
Ptolemy’s Astronomy
Did Ptolemy—as he claims––catalogue his own star observations in the Almagest, or were the coordinates measured more than two hundred years ago by Hip