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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Early modern science"”.
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
Historians of science express widely divergent interpretations of the significance of the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) to the history of science. An examination of the history of science reveals two basic schools of thought about Bruno. Specifically, historians of science disagree …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
… accordingly; to function, at the inception of early modern science and during the "transition" to capitalism, as a device to translate alterity. At this juncture, theories of the demonic were occulted under scientific methodologies and institutionalized across the structures of modernity. …
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Hallowed ground: literature and the encounter with god in post-reformtion england, c. 1550 - 1704
… Technology, Idolatry," considers the career of early modern polymath John Dee and his conversations with angels as a kind of "mysticism" compromised by the technology of magic and early modern science. In chapter two, "A Glass Darkly: John Donne's Negative Approach to God," I explore the …
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… the ‘doctrine of signatures’, as a technique in early modern science and medicine. By signature, it refers to the sensory characteristics of plants that were taken as indicators of their medicinal properties, often in the form of visual resemblances between plants and human organs or disease …
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At the Margins of Modern Science: Leviathan and the Air-Pump as a Case Study for Meta-analysis of Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
… focusing on its reception and its standing in science and technology studies in the fifteen years since its publication. This work claims to be an "origins" story for the modern form of life that we now call the scientific community, and this claim has not itself been contested strongly by …
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Providence and Alchemy: Paracelsus on How Knowledge Unfolded, Matter Developed, and Bodies Might Be Perfected.
… I revise our understanding of the ways in which early modern science, magic, and religion could sometimes develop - not as domains with clear boundaries in mutual interaction, but maybe as one tangled thing, viewed from three different angles. The dissertation is based on extensive close reading …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences in the early modern period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from northeast Asia—was experienced first-hand by several Jesuit missionaries …