
Yuan Tao
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020–Sep 2025)
Room B18/04
Yuan Tao studied history as an undergraduate student at Peking University. After obtaining her Bachelors in history in 2017, she moved on to a Masters program at Harvard Divinity School and received her Master of Theological Studies in 2019 with a focus on the history of Christianity. Yuan is presently a PhD candidate at the Technische Universität Berlin and a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at the MPIWG in the research group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body, ca. 800–1650.” She is working on the doctrine of sense perception of the Coimbra Commentaries and its reception in seventeenth-century Europe and China.
Projects
A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
Past Events
Research Colloquium
Albert the Great on the Habit of Physics
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Shape of Water: Tracing the Beginning of a Wave Theory of Sound
MOREResearch Colloquium
Reflections of the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Sensible Body of the Spanish Medical Enlightenment: The Reception of John Brown's Elementa Medicinae and Its Discontents (1798–1805)
MOREResearch Colloquium
Lepers and Others: Imagining Diseases from Afar
MOREResearch Colloquium
Kepler's Labors: Figurations of Scholarly Work c. 1600
MOREResearch Colloquium
The Horrific Body in Sophocles
MOREResearch Colloquium
Early Christian Neoplatonist Contemplation
MOREResearch Colloquium
A World of Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
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