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The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth.
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Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Archives
During the late Qing political and educational reforms (end of the ninteenth to the early twentieth century) traditional approaches to the collection,
Apollonius Pictus: an Illustrated Late Antique Romance around 1000 ; Facsimile Edition of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
This volume adjacently provides the reader with a facsimile and a multifold account of a thousand-year-old manuscript (Budapest, National Széchényi Library, Cod. Lat. 4), the oldest known illustrated copy of the late antique Latin adventure romance "History of Apollonius, King of Tyre".
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The Equilibrium Controversy: Guidobaldo del Monte’s Critical Notes on the Mechanics of Jordanus and Benedetti and their Historical and Conceptual Background
This study, the second volume of the series "Sources" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," reviews a historical discussion about the question of whether a balance in equilibrium, after having been deflected, returns to its original position.
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What did the Romans know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD.
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Objectivité
L'objectivité a une histoire, et celle-ci se révèle pleine de surprises. Lorraine Daston et Peter Galison retracent dans cette somme l'émergence de l'objectivité dans les sciences au milieu du XIXe siècle et montrent comment ce concept se distingue de deux vertus concurrentes la vérité d'après nature et le jugement exercé.
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William Petty on the Order of Nature : An Unpublished Manuscript Treatise
Stung by the allegation that his version of the new philosophy tended towards atheism and materialism, Sir William Petty – medic, mathematician, pioneering political economist, intellectual entrepreneur, and Fellow of the Royal Society – set out to compose a treatise vindicating his philosophical piety
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Theaterhistoriografie : eine Einführung
Als wichtiges Teilgebiet der Theaterwissenschaft hat sich die Theaterhistoriografie in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einer Geschichtsschreibung des Theatralen und Performativen erweitert. Diese Einführung vermittelt Bachelorstudierenden ein offenes und weit gefasstes Verständnis von Theaterhistoriografie.
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Genetics and the Unsettled Past : The Collision of DNA, Race, and History
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being
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Sulle Spalle di Giganti e Nani
Albert Einstein è da tempo diventato l’icona dello scienziato geniale, colui che vede più lontano degli altri, l’eletto in grado di porre le basi di una rivoluzione scientifica fertile e duratura. La svolta della relatività, iniziata nell’annus mirabilis 1905 e proseguita con la formulazione della teoria della relatività generale nel 1915, offre però moltissimo materiale per indagare più a fondo e in maniera meno ovvia le ragioni e le modalità di un cambiamento tanto epocale nel nostro modo di intendere il mondo.
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