Situating Kant's Pre-Critical Monadology: Leibnizian Ubeity, Monadic Activity, and Idealist Unity [0.03%]
康德前期单子论发微：宇宙观、单子活动与唯心统一性
Edward Slowik
Edward Slowik
This essay examines the relationship between monads and space in Kant's early precritical work, with special attention devoted to the question of ubeity, a Scholastic doctrine that Leibniz describes as "ways of being somewhere." By focusing...
The "Subtile Aereal Spirit of Fountains": Mineral Waters and the History of Pneumatic Chemistry [0.03%]
“精妙的泉之灵体”——矿泉水与 pneumatic 化学史
Victor D Boantza,Leslie Tomory
Victor D Boantza
The standard history of pneumatic chemistry is dominated by a landmark-discoverers-type narrative stretching from Robert Boyle, through Stephen Hales, Joseph Black, and Joseph Priestley, to Antoine Lavoisier. This article challenges this vi...
Reading Cosmographia: Peter Apian's Book- Instrument Hybrid and the Rise of the Mathematical Amateur in the Sixteenth Century [0.03%]
《读〈宇宙概论〉：彼得·阿皮安的书仪混合体与16世纪数学业余爱好者群体的兴起》
Margaret Gaida
Margaret Gaida
The incorporation of paper instruments, also known as volvelles, into astronomical and cosmographical texts is a well-known facet of sixteenth-century printing. However, the impact that these instruments had on the reading public has yet to...
Bastard Breadfruit and other Cheap Provisions: Early Food Science for the Welfare of the Lower Orders [0.03%]
bastard面包果及其他廉价食品：改善下层民众福祉的早期食品科学研究
Anya Zilberstein
Anya Zilberstein
Breadfruit is best known in connection with an infamously failed project: the 1789 mutiny against the Bounty, commanded by William Bligh. However, four years later, Bligh returned to the Pacific and fulfilled his commission, delivering brea...
Documenting Medications: Patients' Demand, Physicians' Virtuosity, and Genre-Mixing of Prescription-Cases (Fang'an) in Seventeenth-Century China [0.03%]
十七世纪中国的药方文书：患者的诉求、医生的技艺与文体杂糅
He Bian
He Bian
Xianxingzhai guang biji ('Expanded Notes from the Studio of Early Enlightenment') is a Chinese medical case collection based primarily on the interaction between the physician Miao Xiyong and his patients. Professional interest alone, howev...
Tomas Nejeschleba
Tomas Nejeschleba
The physician and philosopher Johannes Jessenius (1565-1621), an enthusiastic anatomist in Wittenberg, often had to defend his anatomical practices against Lutheran orthodoxy as is apparent from the invitations he wrote concerning his disse...
Adam Huber of Riesenpach (1545-1613) and his Translation of the Book on Regimen within the Context of the Prague Medical Milieu [0.03%]
亚当·胡贝尔与布拉格的医学环境及其对《 regimen》一书的翻译
Martin Zemla
Martin Zemla
This paper outlines the life, work, and views of Adam Huber of Riesenpach (1545-1613). Huber was one of the personal physicians to Rudolf ii in Prague, a pharmacist, translator, pedagogue, progressive academic and chancellor at Prague Unive...
"The tempting girl, I know so well": Representations of Gout and the Self-Fashioning of Bohemian Humanist Scholars [0.03%]
“那个诱惑我的女孩，我是如此熟悉”——痛风的图式与波西米亚人文学者的身份塑造
Lucie Storchova
Lucie Storchova
The current study deals with the representation of gout in Bohemian humanist literature and its impact on the cultural definitions of being a humanist scholar from the 1550s to the 1620s. Bohemian humanists produced a number of brief autobi...
Visiting Old Libraries: Scientific Books in the Religious Institutions of Early Modem Portugal [0.03%]
访旧图书馆——葡萄牙早期宗教机构中的科学藏书
Luana Giurgevich
Luana Giurgevich
Knowledge of libraries and book collecting is a preliminary task for the characterisation of scientific culture and practice. In the case of Iberia, and especially Portugal, this is still a desideratum. This paper provides a first global lo...
A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse into the Princeps Edition of Coloquios dos simples (Goa, 1563) [0.03%]
《科罗基奥斯·多斯·辛普利西姆（古阿，1563）王子版本的背后》
Teresa Nobre de Carvaiho
Teresa Nobre de Carvaiho
Considered by many to be the most learned Portuguese physician who lived in Goa during the sixteenth century, Garcia de Orta (c. 1500-1568) was the author of CoIoquios dos Simples, e Dro gas he cousas medicinais da India [Colloquies on the ...