Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"history of knowledge"”.
-
Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy
This thesis investigates the contribution of artisans, vendors, and practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean to cultural, scientific, and artisanal production, experimentation, and innovation in early modern Italy, from the mid-sixteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. In recent years, …
-
A case study of knowledge translation and the enhanced street youth study in Saskatoon
In the past few decades knowledge translation has emerged as a common strategy intended to improve the effectiveness of health interventions and increase the utilization of research. Underlying the emergence of knowledge translation is a belief that new research findings will increase the …
-
The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine, 1650-1710
This thesis examines the knowledge and practice of pulse diagnosis in early modern England. An essential sign of the human body and its disease, the pulse had nonetheless been difficult to interpret since the earliest days of medicine. In the first decade of the eighteenth century, the Lichfield …
-
Geometria et ars memorativa : Studien zur Bedeutung von Kreis und Quadrat als Bestandteile mittelalterlicher Mnemonik und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte an ausgewählten Beispielen
… study supplies a contribution to the examination of the mnemonic significance of medieval and modern illustrations which are composed of a circle and a square. Scrutinizing various examples, the present investigation discusses the origin, meaning and history of those graphic representations in …
-
Coins and colonialism between South Asia and Britain: tracing numismatic networks of collecting from field to museum
This thesis presents a history of coin collecting in colonial India by British and Indian collectors and scholars in the late nineteenth to the early to mid-twentieth centuries. Taking an object biography approach, I recount the journey of coins from the ground up to their acquisition to UK …
-
The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
This thesis analyses the signatures of plants, also known as 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 …
-
Der Capillarblut-Transfusor
… Apparat wird 1868 von seinem Erfinder hoffnungsvoll vorgestellt und wenig später für untauglich befunden. Anhand von zwei Quellen aus dem Jahr 1868 und 1873 vergleicht diese Arbeit die technischen Texte und Abbildungen und führt die Ergebnisse jeweils mit dem Diskurs der Bluttransfusion …
-
Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and engravings, and surviving instruments. Interweaving manifold cultural practices and social actors, it enquires how …