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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Scientific Revolution"”.
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An Examination of the Needham Question: Why Didn't China Have a Scientific Revolution Considering Its Early Scientific Accomplishments?
… and economic factors that contributed to the Scientific Revolution in Europe will be discussed, as well as some of the key historical factors that prevented the development of modern science in China. In particular, I will focus on the imperial examinations in China and will argue that these …
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The changing construction of the human being in medical discourse concerning melancholy
… half of the seventeenth century brought the scientific revolution and a new style and habit of thought. This thesis examines medical texts from the period 1620-1750in order to relate the changes wrought by the scientific revolution to changes in the ways physicians envisioned the nature of …
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Si' come dice lo Filosofo: Translating Philosophy in the Early Italian Lyric
… and complex renderings of philosophical/scientific ideas, I develop a broad understanding of the early vernacular poetic engagement with Aristotelian philosophy that encompasses such areas as sensory perception, meteorology, and ethics. I trace the progression of this engagement from its …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
With the Scientific Revolution, the scientific method excluded the intrinsic tie between humans and nature. Our understanding of the natural world becomes increasingly limited as over-controlled experiments continue to disregard the naturally occurring variables and interdependent relationships …
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Travelling in Language and Image: Representing Alterity in French Romantic Fiction, Travel Narrative, Journalism, and Art, 1830--1870
… of colonization, political changes, an esthetic/scientific revolution of photography, and commercialization of works of art, represented a fertile ground for discussions on problems and politics of representation. An analysis of visual and discursive representations of alterity in the works by …
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Transparent animism: a framework for participating in ecological design as agonism
… Since the enlightenment, colonialism, and the scientific revolution, the modernist project has defined itself in opposition to animism. Animism counters positivism and anthropogenic free-market ideology and challenges the binary worldview that embraces the categorical distinction between human …
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Balancing Blood, Balancing Books: Medicine, Commerce, and the Royal Court in Seventeenth-Century England
… aims to add to the burgeoning literature on the scientific revolution that posits a multitude of different scientific practitioners with diverse philosophical commitments and varied connections to other facets of early modern life, while stressing key conceptual changes in Harvey's thought.
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Impossible Heights: From Mining to Sport in the Mountain West, 1849 to 1936
… separate, came from the same basic impetus. The Scientific Revolution eased the old fear of mountains from the religious tradition and gave humans the license and curiosity to explore. Mountains also offered capital incentive to adventurers in the form of mineral deposits, tourism and the glory …
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Why should physicians read? Understanding clinical judgement and its relation to literary experience
… which starts by tracing the historical roots of scientific medicine. These are found to be intimately linked to a form of rationality associated with the scientific revolution of the 17th century and with “modernity”. Medical practice, however, is dependent also on another form of rationality …
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The Civil Defence Debate in Britain 1957-1983. An account and critical analysis of the major issues in the debate about civil defence against nuclear attack
… looked at with reference to Kuhn's theory of scientific revolution and suggests that the understanding of civil defence is at present undergoing a paradigm shift.
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An exploration of how the timing of colostomy following spinal cord injury impacts on the individual.
… to these failures. The patient-initiated scientific revolution, which the choice of earlier colostomy formation represents, was found to stem from a rejection of professional bowel management guidelines developed through a biomedical lens which prioritises normalising physiological …
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Matter in motion: The problem of activity in seventeenth-century English matter theory
… recent historiographical trends about the extra-scientific origins of the Scientific Revolution in seventeenth-century England. In particular it considers the attempts by recent commentators to show that a dichotomy between 'strict' mechanists who believed in passive matter and those who believed …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
… historical moments such as the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Included are the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Marsilio Ficino, René Descartes, Gioseffo Zarlino, Athanasius Kircher, Robert Burton, Richard Browne, among other thinkers. Their lofty subjects, though …
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Monsters in Paradise: The Representation of the Natural World in the Historias of Bartolome de Las Casas and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
… emergence of natural history and ultimately the Scientific Revolution. Sixteenth century texts were not, however, "scientific" in a modern sense. Empirical observation was shaped by scholastic and humanistic philosophy, and mingled with wondrous images derived from classical and medieval sources; …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… adopted a contemporarily unique policy of "scientific colonialism" which combined ethnological expertise with rational governance in pursuit of Sacred Trusteeship – an intellectual approach that I term “Mandate Governmentality” – to secure its right-to-rule against the imperial ambitions of …
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Jesuit Education and Mathematics: Review of the Literature on Jesuit Education and Mathematics
… played an Portant role in the beginning of the Scientific Revolution, and it affected the work of influential minds of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and declined after that.</p> <p>Behind the mathematics of the Ratio and generations of Jesuit mathematicians is the …
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Technology in Society: The Pipe Organ in Early Modern England
The rise of English Protestantism produced a curious phenomenon in early modern England: the silencing of pipe organs in cathedrals and parish churches across the land. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this ecclesiastical instrument figuratively embodied and literally gave voice to …
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Analysis of the genome organization and fitness traits of non-pathogenic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (O6:K5:H1)
… In parallel, these data are the basis for the scientific “revolution” in the field of industrial and environmental biotechnology and medical microbiology – diagnostics and therapy, development of new drugs and vaccines against infectious agents. Together with the genomic approach, other …
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A Scholarly Edition with Exegesis of Niccolò Piccinni's Dramma Giocoso: 'Il Regno della Luna' (1770).
… changing at an almost unprecedented rate. New scientific discoveries, global exploration, colonialism, and interaction with non-European ‘others’, combined with evolving philosophical concepts of epistemology, sociopolitical structures and human emotions culminated in a mid-century reappraisal …
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