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Though their Causes be not yet discover'd": Occult Traditions in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy
My dissertation provides a preliminary attempt to show how Newton’s natural philosophy can be seen to have emerged from the work of his predecessors.
Good Science: Epistemic Values and Scholarly Reputations in Europe, 1770–1830
The present project is aimed at confronting the processes of institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of knowledge with the hypot
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger rezensiert Buch über Geschichte des Wahnsinns und der Vererbung
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews book on history of madness and heredity in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Sabine Arnauds Buch “On Hysteria” wurde in einer Sonderausgabe von H-France rezensiert
Zu den ArtikelnSabine Arnaud's book “On Hysteria” reviewed in special issue
Go to ArticlesArtifice Embodied: Perfecting Renaissance Nature and the Invention of Race
In the sixteenth century, Europeans set out to control nature by “taking charge of race,” in the words of heretic philosopher Tommaso Campanella. The
Porta Cooley
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Institute's Colloquium | Sep 25, 2018 | 14:00 to 15:30
Chinese Literati and Intellectuals on Mantic Arts: A Philosophy of Divination?
MoreA New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and Its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World, 750–1650
The goal of this project is to continue work on a book on the history of medieval Arabic and Latin science, co-authored with Ahmed Ragab of the Depart