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Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
Alfarabi’s and Averroes’s philosophical treatises are guided by a common recognition that there are four types of knowledge (maʽlūmāt) which are prior
Another Green Revolution? Extracting "Lessons" from History
After 1945, Western foundations and governments devoted considerable resources to promoting agricultural development in Latin America and Asia through
Edna Bonhomme
Edna Bonhomme earned her PhD in History of Science at Princeton University. Her doctoral researc...
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Susan Zieger
Susan Zieger is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She ...
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Jaehwan Hyun
Jaehwan Hyun is a historian of science working on the Cold War history of human biology and envi...
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Javier Moscoso
Javier Moscoso is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Spanish National Researc...
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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
Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
The founder of the Ming dynasty in China, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), and his successors used translations and inter-cultural correspondences (or equival
The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology
In this project, I seek to understand critiques of technology after World War II by arguing that technological choices are inherently moral choices. D