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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"natural knowledge"”.
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Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge
… exotic nature that exists near the boundaries of natural philosophy. The marvelous, exotic, and unusual are fascinating to both readers and authors, providing windows into the ways in which the evidence structures of reason, authority, and experience were balanced in the assessment, explanation, …
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À mes amis qui croient et à ceux qui croient ne pas croire: Natural Knowledge of God and the Propulsion of Reason in Henri de Lubac; A Re-assessment
… of the place and significance of the natural light of human reason in attaining knowledge of God according to the thought of Henri de Lubac. In the Anglophone theological literature of the later twentieth century, a notable consensus has emerged that de Lubac’s celebrated text, …
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… confronts persistent questions about how knowledge travelled across geographic and socio-cultural spaces and about how diverse local knowledge traditions came to shape global knowledge in the age of colonialism. I explore these issues through the lens of the career of the Jesuit pharmacist …
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BODIES IN THE KNOW: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EMBODIMENT IN THOMAS MALORY'S TRYSTRAM
… De Lyones is contained in two realities. The natural is ephemeral, subjective, limited, and mediated while the supernatural is eternal, absolute, universal, and direct. Yet, because humans exist in the physical and natural, knowledge starts with discursive perception-cognition between sensed …
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Reciprocities market : John Bartram's 18th century botanical subscription service and the seeds of independence
… a Pennsylvanian-born Quaker farmer and naturalist, developed a transatlantic botanical subscription service. An exemplar of the broader shift from traditional patronage systems of obligation and reciprocity or deference to market-based egalitarian exchange. This study explores how …
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The Covenant Theology of Zacharias Ursinus
… century with his introduction of the foedus naturale. For the first time in its development he describes the prelapsarian economy to be covenantal and thus opens the way for a bicovenantal scheme to eventually become a distinctive feature of Reformed theology.<br/>Through a comprehensive …
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The Intuition of Knowing: Its Biological Function and Natural Triggering-Conditions
… positions in relation to basic problems of knowledge and the use of the verb ‘to know’ have multiplied; and the prospect of a consensus solution emerging with respect to any of the problems has not seemed particularly good. We have a Gordian knot. Even so, I suggest that we also have a way …
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… to address society’s material needs and advance natural knowledge in the seventeenth century. Early modern actors, from eminent experimental philosophers to anonymous practitioners, used plant signatures to teach students, collect local remedies, provide cultivation advice, and organise herbal …
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Natural theology and natural philosophy in the late Renaissance
… understand the religious context of early modern natural philosophy. Despite some great strides in relating certain areas of Christian doctrine to the study of the natural world, the category ‘natural theology’ has often been subject to anachronism and misunderstanding. The term itself is …
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Beaver Dams, Spider Webs, and the Sticky Wicket: An Investigation On What Counts as Technology and What Counts as Knowledge
… and processes used and conducted by humans, but natural structures and man-made structures are not always easily discernable from one another. The complexity of a spider web is not matched by many human-made technologies. Beaver dams, beehives, and ant hills are great creations made by non-human …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… established by herbalists, doctors, and naturalists in the employ of the Apothecary (Medical) Chancellery and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In doing so it investigates how methods of botanical collection, including specific itineraries, influenced the creation spaces of …
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Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949
… wide distribution of minimal amounts of forensic knowledge and skill, this arrangement made possible high degrees of consistency in examination practices while facilitating central authorities' bureaucratic supervision over local forensic cases. While the "expertise" of individual coroners could …