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Medical Epistemology in Renaissance Italy: Theory and Practice
The overarching objective of the project is to offer case studies of the epistemology of medicine in Renaissance Italy which show its impact in shapin
Two Ways of Experience in the Writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a prophet and a unique intellectual. Hildegard wrote that her visionary experiences were the sole source for the v
Has Humanity Ushered in a New Geological Era?
MoreHat der Mensch ein neues Erdzeitalter eingeläutet?
MoreJustin Stearns
Justin Stearns received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2007, and h...
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A Vital Force? Exploring Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1550-1730
No 79
According to the authors of early modern agrarian manuals, agriculture was in crisis. Soils had become depleted, crops grew smaller and fewer in number, and the growing seasons were shorter and cooler. Food production could no longer keep pace with population growth and consumption. Precisely how to solve this crisis was up for vigorous and sometimes acrimonious debate. At the heart of this was the acknowledgement that, while agriculture was the most common form of labor in the early modern world, and required advanced botanical, chemical, mineralogical, and meteorological knowledge, almost no one studying these sciences at an elite level had engaged in any sustained, experimental attempt to understand it.
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
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Ein Lebenselixier? Zur landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung der Alchemie im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit um 1550-1730
No 79
Den frühneuzeitlichen Verfasser*innen von Agrarhandbüchern zufolge befand sich die Landwirtschaft seinerzeit in einer Krise. Die Böden waren ausgelaugt, die Äcker brachten kleinere und weniger Feldfrüchte hervor, die Vegetationsperioden fielen kürzer und kühler aus, und die Nahrungsmittelproduktion wurde dem Bevölkerungswachstum und dem Bedarf nicht länger gerecht. Doch wie sich der Krise begegnen ließ, war Gegenstand heftiger, teils erbitterter Debatten. Ein entscheidender Faktor war dabei, dass in der Frühen Neuzeit zwar die meisten Menschen in der Landwirtschaft tätig waren und die Arbeit profunde botanische, chemische, mineralogische und meteorologische Kenntnisse erforderte, dass sich aber so gut wie keiner der führenden Expert*innen auf diesen Gebieten nachhaltig und experimentell mit landwirtschaftlichen Fragen beschäftigte.
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
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The Pineal Gland, Comets, and Subtle Matter: The Natural Objects with Which Cartesians Tried to Conquer France (1637–1691)
The Descartes who is now read and commented on is the Descartes who wrote the “Meditationes de prima philosophia.” But in the seventeenth century, the
The Logic of Experience in the Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Tradition
Following Arabic interpretations of Aristotelian logic, medieval Hebrew logicians considered things apprehended directly by the senses or by the intel
Yael Barash
Yael Barash is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Yosef Schwartz at the Cohn Institu...
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