Urs Leo Gantenbein
Urs Leo Gantenbein
The Swiss natural philosopher, physician, and radical reformer Theophrastus of Hohenheim (1493-1541), known as Paracelsus, endeavoured to reconcile his various perspectives in his extensive biblical exegeses. Symbolizing this effort were th...
Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus's Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropology in the light of Lutheran biblical hermeneutics [0.03%]
论帕拉塞尔斯斯的《伟大天文学》(1537/8)与无名氏的《神学占星术》(1617)中的异端“小宇宙说”:路德圣经解释法光照下的帕拉塞尔斯斯的人类观
Dane T Daniel,Charles D Gunnoe Jr
Dane T Daniel
The study evaluates Paracelsus's and Paracelsian-Weigelian microcosmogonies, i.e. theories concerning the nature and creation of human beings, especially their biblical underpinnings, and particularly in the light of Luther's and Lutheran a...
'Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy': glass beehives and English society, 1650-1680 [0.03%]
《谨慎、远见、勇气、勤俭》:玻璃蜂箱与十七世纪中后期的英国社会(1650-1680)
Marlis Hinckley
Marlis Hinckley
During the English Civil War and subsequent Restoration, beekeeping provided a ready set of moral examples for those seeking answers about the 'natural' structure of society. The practice itself also underwent a number of substantial change...
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus [0.03%]
帕拉塞尔苏斯著作中的虹、风、电、热和寒的化学理论研究
Didier Kahn
Didier Kahn
Meteorology is not one of the most discussed topics in Paracelsus studies, although it is closely linked to both Paracelsus' medicine and cosmology. Furthermore, it appears to be at the very core of Paracelsus' famous matter theory of three...
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles [0.03%]
约西亚·威拉德·吉布斯和皮埃尔·莫里斯·杜恒:两种不同的人格与科学风格
Photis Dais
Photis Dais
In this essay, I will compare the character, scientific style, and writing style of the American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and the French physicist Pierre Maurice Duhem. I begin with biographical notes to portray some significant momen...
George Hook
George Hook
This article investigates Haast's claim that in March 1862 he independently reached the same controversial conclusion as Ramsay, that lake basins in previously glaciated regions were formed by ancient glaciers. Both men's views fuelled a pa...
Christoph Lüthy
Christoph Lüthy
We are all used to drawing straight lines to represent time, and above them, we plot historical events or physical or economic data. What to us is a self-evident convention, is however of an astonishingly recent date: it emerged only in the...
Sibylle Gluch
Sibylle Gluch
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories [0.03%]
时间难题:十八世纪早期天文台的时钟与精确实践
Sibylle Gluch
Sibylle Gluch
In 1736/37, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan communicated about the clocks that would enable the astronomers of the Saint Petersburg observatory to make highly exact observations. Delisle, who was in charge of the S...
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna [0.03%]
航行在自然的海洋中:文艺复兴早期博洛尼亚的弗朗切斯卡·丰塔纳·阿尔德罗万迪
Noemi Di Tommaso
Noemi Di Tommaso
The history of science is increasingly directing its attention to the diachronic examination of women's involvement within spaces dedicated to scientific inquiry. While this field of study boasts rich and meticulous historiography, delving ...