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The Eye and Refractive Geography in Pericles

Linguaculture, 2017
The paper highlights the cultural constructedness of vision in the early modern period by drawing on heteroglossic representations of the eye in early English texts, ranging from anatomy and physiology treatises to philosophy, poetry, emblems, and ...
Matei-Chesnoiu Monica
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Copernican Revolutions Revisited in Adam Smith by way of David Hume

Revista Empresa y Humanismo, 2010
This paper revisits Adam Smith’s treatment of Copernicanism and Newtonianism in his essay “The History of Astronomy”. I will provide a detailed analysis of all the comments that Smith makes on the Hume’s oeuvre, noting their concordances and differences.
Eric Schliesser
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Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Arithmetic and geometry

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2014
The significance of the epistles on a range of intellectual disciplines by the group of scholars known as the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa’) has been known for some time, although one might argue that their significance for a proper assessment of ...
Sajjad H. Rizvi
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The Faculty Notebook, April 2020

, 2020
The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest.
Provost\u27s Office,
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Learning from Bad Teachers: Leibniz as a Propaedeutic for Chinese Philosophy [PDF]

, 2016
One of the challenges facing instructors of Chinese philosophy courses at many Western universities is the fact that students can often bring orientalizing assumptions and expectations to their encounters with primary sources.
DeLapp, Kevin
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Stargazing: Observatories at Gettysburg College, 1874-Present

, 2006
Astronomy has long been a subject which has attracted the interest of man. Examples of early astronomers can be found in many ancient civilizations, including but not limited to, the Egyptians, the Chinese and the Greeks.
Carlson, Andrew A.
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Classes and problems of natural philosophy of P. Francisco Mendoça SJ

Humanitas, 2016
The author presents De floribus Philosophiae written by the famous Jesuit Francisco Mendoça (†1626), professor of Philosophy and rector of the College of Arts in Coimbra in the first years of the XVIIth century.
Carlota Miranda Urbano
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The History of Science and Natural Philosophy among the Croats (With Particular Reference to the Exact Sciences), Volume IV: The Enlightenment and Volume V: The Pre-Revival Age

Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2019
In 2018, Izvori published another two volumes by academician Žarko Dadić, the eminent Croatian historian of science, and author of a score of books and large number of articles and papers on the history of mathematics, physics and astronomy.
Marijana Borić
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Planets and the Possibility of Life beyond Earth 

Zygon
The question of whether life exists beyond Earth has intrigued humans throughout history. Millennia of speculation have fueled both philosophy and theology, with contemplations of the spiritual state of alien beings shedding new light on that state of ...
Jennifer J. Wiseman
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Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions

, 2015
Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications, transcription errors, and omissions in these records.
Hamacher, Duane W.
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