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Science Social 06: Grasping the Invisible
MoreNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity
MoreNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity
MoreMusic and Transience in the Historiography of Six Dynasties China
Ephemerality and politics lie at the heart of this group project on early medieval China. We intend to analyze how elites coped with the destructive q
No Easy Way Out: Ge Hong’s Rejection of Timeless Utopianism and Embrace of Progress
Due to the turbulence and danger of the fragmented early medieval Chinese world, numerous men of letters craned their necks looking for paradises in u
Keith Knapp’s article on Ge Hong in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy
Dealing with Transience during the Sixteen States Period of Early Medieval China
The period of the Sixteen States (304–439) in northern China was characterized by rather short-lived regimes, mostly founded by “non-Han” rulers belon
Penrose Interpretation and Quantum Gravity
Developed over many decades, quantum mechanics began as a series of controversial mathematical explanations of those experiments that w
Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
The Elements of Euclid (third century BC) was regarded from Antiquity on as a reference work for the most fundamental aspects of arithmetic and geomet
A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
The Coimbra Commentaries, published between 1592 and 1606, were intended to serve as the teaching manuals for the philosophy course structured around
Definition and Division in Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s De animalibus
Definition is one of the most disputed elements of Aristotle’s scientific methodology. In difficult passages of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle ask