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Between Natural Philosophy and Convention: Albert the Great’s Approach to an Empirical Anthropology
Albert the Great (1200–1280) is one of the earliest and most influential thirteenth-century thinkers to study human beings from the perspective of nat
The Vegetative Soul and Plants in the Study of Living Bodies
Vegetation and vegetative powers, in their ability to preserve, maintain, and reproduce life, have shaped the understanding of living bodies and the d
Dissecting Sight: Surgery and Vision in Early Modern Europe
My project investigates the ways in which the eye was studied, eye diseases were treated, and the knowledge of the eye was transmitted during the sixt
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
This project focuses on the changing role of experience, techniques of observation, and the use of material instruments in seventeenth-century acousti
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In my PhD project, I argue that a particular shift in musical and acoustical techniques of observations took place in the early modern perio
Audrey Borowski
Audrey is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford in the History Faculty where she is cur...
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Giuditta Parolini
Giuditta Parolini holds an MSc in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Imperial...
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Fabrizio Baldassarri
Fabrizio Baldassarri (PhD, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Parma; BA/MA, University o...
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Agata Kowalewska
Agata Kowalewska is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw and a v...
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Effective Theories: Past, Present, and Beyond
Effective field theories have become increasingly popular tools in physics during the last decades. Many physicists even believe that our most fundame
Confessionalization of Medicine
This group explores the relationships between the projects and practices of Reformation broadly construed and developments in European academic medici