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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
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No 59
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.
Katja Krause
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Erfahrung in den vormodernen Wissenschaften von Körper und Geist ca. 800–1650
No 59
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.
Katja Krause
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Institute's Colloquium: Know "Thy" Experience
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MoreAnimal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
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
CRISPR/Cas9 Ethics and Values in China: A Tool to Improve Population Quality?
This project examines the social and political setting in which human germline genome editing (GGE) trials using CRISPR/Cas9 have become possible in C
Kim Carlisle Kit-Wah Chung
Kim Chung studied history and political science at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg,...
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