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The Quantification of Time: An Investigation of Three Premodern Sciences of Periodicity
The project focuses on a critical moment in the history of time measurement, a technological achievement that completely changed the ancient ways of c
The Encounter of Two Systems of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China
Despite the striking parallels between ancient Chinese and Greek theoretical knowledge, their subsequent history turned out very differently. The Late
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The transmission of European science to China in the seventeenth century came about through the partial alignment of the ambitions of Jesuit missionar