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Animals and Entangled Epistemologies in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Epistemological change in early modern Europe has long been told as an internalist story. Even with the Iberian and global “turns” in the history of s
Of Soils and Stars: Jesuit Perceptions of Chinese Agricultural Practices through Calendrical Construction
In Novus Atlas Sinensis, the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini (1614–1661) claimed that in China, which is “pleasant for the climate, the soil, the fe
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
Sensible Taxonomies: Medieval Accounts of Animal Perception
The theory that animals belonging to different species perceive in different but equally legitimate ways, depending on their specific vital needs, is
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Material Culture in Early Modern China, 1500-1800
This project examines the crucial period between sixteenth and eighteenth century in Chinese cultural history through the lens of pharmacy – broadly c
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Aristotle's Physics: A Physicist's Look
MoreMatter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
This project explores the history of keeping elephants in captivity in Eastern Europe with a focus on how the trajectories of colonial trades in zoo s
Knowing the Shadow: The Experiential Dimension of Matter
This research project focuses on the notion of prime matter, especially in consideration of premodern discussions of matter theories in philosophy and