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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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The impact of astronomy on the philosophy of Józef Hoene-Wroński
, 2016 The aim of this essay is to embed the philosophy of Józef Hoene-Wroński in a context of astronomy at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By using methods of Bruno Latour’s new anthropology and Steven Shapin’s sociology of scientific knowledge I ...
Urbanowicz, Piotr
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The Evolution of Optical Instrumentation, Laser Technology, and Scientific Thought: the Ramon Maria Aller Astronomical Activities and Arab Astronomy [PDF]
, 2020 This Doctoral Dissertation was written by Hatem Abdullah Al-Ameryeen under the direction of José Ángel Docobo, Full Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Ramón María Aller Astronomical Observatory (OARMA) at the University of Santiago de ...
Abdullah Hamdan Al-Ameryeen, Hatem
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020 This research concentrates on the condition of in the land of Kurds between (6-9 Hi|12-15 AC). In other words, this research demonstrates the role of scientists and scientific institutions in the development of mental sciences.
Hussein Abdulrahman Hussein +1 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Order/Disorder Dichotomies and the Structure of Matter
Philosophy of PhysicsConceptions of order and disorder date back to antiquity and colour modern understanding of the universe, matter, beauty in art, and social organization.
Mira E. P. Sheahan, Greg van Anders
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Nowe widzenie – astrologiczny i astronomiczny wymiar wizji fotograficznej
Artium Quaestiones, 2018 The paper focuses on the New Vision – one of the most important developments in the history of the twentieth-century photography, whose ambition was to modernize human perception, hence also society.
Dorota Łuczak
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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A Concept of Philosophy in the Qur'anic Context
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1994 One of the most debated subjects in philosophy is the nature and subject matter of philosophy itself. It is pethaps the only discipline that critically discusses its own natum. This is one msan that has led philosophers, particularly after the nineteenth
Alparslan Acikgenc
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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