MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

  • 13:30 to 15:00
  • Lecture

Francis Bacon’s Nomological Network of Nature

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Boltzmannstraße 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany

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Seminar Room/Online

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Illustration of the Japanese plant Tsubaki (today known as Camellia japonica) in an observation by Andreas Cleyer in Miscellanea Curiosa. Source: 2 Decuria, 7. 1688
Cultural History of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum
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Structure of the nervous system. M. Martínez, Anatomía Completa del Hombre (1728), 574
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Vincent Van Gogh, First Steps, after Millet (1890). Public domain.
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Albert the Great on the Human Being
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front and back of a gold coin. one side has the head of Constantine the Great wearing a laurel, the other shows Empirar Constantine receiving a globe
Astral Knowledge on Ancient and Medieval Coins
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Leibniz’s annotated copy of Christian Huygens’s Horologium Oscillatorium, 1673. Leibniz Handschriften zur Technica, LH38, Bl. 185
The Quantification of Time
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Henry Mowbray Cadell archives, British Geological Survey. Catalogue reference: P612832
Deep Time Labscapes.
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Er war Alexander von Humboldt um einen Schritt voraus

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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scan of book chapter from 1628 China showing images of "fantastical beasts" and "foreign and mythical peoples"
The Strange as Knowledge
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Caption Text: Slug experiment confirming the circulation of animal spirits (H. Regius, Fundamenta Physices, 1646, p. 232). Source: Huntington Library, San Marino, California, RB 474469
The Cardiovascular Origins of Early Modern Neuroscience
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