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Evelina Miteva
Evelina Miteva received her first PhD in Sofia in 2010 and a second one in 2014 in Bari and Colo...
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Brett Yardley
Brett Yardley is a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and Marquette University, currently completing a d...
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Confessionalization of Medicine
This group explores the relationships between the projects and practices of Reformation broadly construed and developments in European academic medici
Knowing the Observable and the Unobservable in Islamic Thought
The question of epistemology is the foundation of any science, and “experience” or “observation” of the world around us lie at the heart of a number o
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
Cosmological and Astral images in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings
Buddhism played a significant role in the formation of cosmological notions in East Asian cultural tradition. Its impact is multi-layered – while the
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While this transmission process has drawn significant attention in philological studies, the attempt to trace its process in visual materials had been
Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies
My research project is titled “Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies.” The proposed study is focused on two int
Guildhalls: A Network of Hybrid Socio-Religious Spaces for Migrant Communities in China
Guildhalls (huiguan 會館) are socio-religious spaces that developed in China as gathering places for communities of migrant merchants from a common geog
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Matter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos
No 76
The intellectual cosmos of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is seemingly inexhaustible. It echoes the diversity and cultural abundance of the Renaissance, which he embodies in all its facets like few others of his time. He applied his curiosity and creative commitment to all fields of knowledge, from the forces of nature, both large and small, to all varieties of human form and design.