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Obscurity as Textual Practice
The textworkers in the Greco-Roman tradition, who guarded, preserved, transmitted, and explained their canonical texts needed a reason (or at least a
Publications, Ineke Sluiter, 'The Violent Scholiast. Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries', in: M. Asper (ed.), Writing Science. Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011.
A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic Translation of the Torah
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," this project "A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saad
How Ritual Use Affects the Codification of the Canon: The Conception of Mantradevatā as a Classificatory System of the Vedas
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," Paolo Visigalli investigated the relation between the ritual use mad
Picturing as Practice: Placing a Square above a Square in the Central Middle Ages
This project examined the many pictures of solids added to the margins of Macrobius's fifth-century Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Sci
Drawing from Life: John La Farge, William James, and the Search for Truth in Art, Science and Philosophy
Cecelia Watson's project explored the influence of the painter John La Farge on William James’s psychology and philosophy. James and La Farge studied
All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
"All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929–1989" presents a series of case studies in the methods by which social (ec
Edging into the Wild
The analogy between artificial selection and natural selection forms a powerful rhetorical component of Darwin's argument in On the Origin of Species.
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
Epistemologies of the Living between 1900 and 1960
“We suspect that, to do mathematics, it would suffice that we be angels. But to do biology, even with the aid of intelligence, we sometimes need to fe
The Government of Techno-Science and Techno-Products at Global Level
Dominique Pestre's research project dealt with the government of techno-sciences and techno-industrial products at various scales since the Second Wor
Publications, Pestre, D. (Ed.). (2014). Le Gouvernement des Techno-sciences. Gouverner le progrès et ses dégâts depuis 1945. Paris, La Découverte., Funding Institutions, Centre Alexandre Koyré