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Context of Commentaries on the Textbook of Astronomy “Pseudo-Proclus’ Sphaera” in the Renaissance
The project investigated the networks between professors of Astronomy and Greek and their students in sixteenth-century European cities, who used the
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Benjamin Johnson in WUSF Public Media on the invention of and perspectives on synthetic ammonia
Go To ArticleBenjamin Johnson bei WUSF Public Media über die Erfindung und die Perspektiven von synthetischem Ammoniak
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Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia
MoreAncient Astronomy and Geography
The focus of this research area is the development of ancient astronomy from the earliest archaeoastronomical observational sites to elaborate Ptolema
Astronomy of the Early Modern Era
This research area studies turning points in the history of modern astronomy in Copernicus and Kepler.
Kepler/Copernicus
The transformation of the geocentrical to the heliocentrical cosmology evolved during a long period of time. In the first period in early medieval tim
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By combining two earlier traditions, Copernicus formulated a heliocentrical variant of Arabic predecessor models –a variant that resulted in the rapid
Ptolemy’s Geography
Ptolemy’s Geography (second century CE) contains a catalog where localities are listed with their geographical coordinates, as well as concrete instru
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The research project investigates the genesis of Ptolemy’s geographical catalog of places, in particular by considering its structure and the relation
Ptolemy’s Astronomy
Did Ptolemy—as he claims––catalogue his own star observations in the Almagest, or were the coordinates measured more than two hundred years ago by Hip
Medieval Astronomical Diagrams
Early medieval manuscripts of only four authors (Pliny, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Calcidius) carried late Roman astronomical knowledge to the cent