imaginary devices that were new and unusual to the established political vocabulary but were deployed in order to both criticize the existing world and to imagine a new one. 1 In this study, we examine the role that references to physics and astronomy
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Between Science and Utopia
Physical and Astronomical Notions within French and Polish Fourierism
Piotr Kuligowski and Quentin Schwanck
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Chaco Skies
A Socio-cultural History of Power Relations
Alejandro Martín López and Agustina Altman
those whose impact is limited to a certain animal or plant species ( López 2009 ). Ethno-astronomy, 2 as the study of the socio-culturally constructed ways of experimenting, conceptualizing, and acting in relation with the sky, stands as a key approach
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Maimonides Editorial
Esther Seidel
Three contributions celebrate the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of the death of one of our greatest sages, Moses Maimonides (1135–1204). Maimonides was a master in every branch of Jewish scholarship. He was the great genius who synthesised the vast world of Talmudic law. He threw light on the Mishnah by one of the most lucid commentaries ever to have been written and he wrote numerous responsa advising Jewish community leaders on intricate problems of interpretation and application of rabbinical law. As a practising physician his advice on prophylaxis and medical treatment was highly valued, while he also had a keen interest in human psychology and in the natural sciences in general, including astronomy.
Human Mobility and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge
Mapping Science, Technology, and Medicine in and around Late Imperial China
Catherine Jami
. He learned astronomy at home with his father and brothers, under the guidance of a certain Ni Guanhu 倪觀湖 (1616–after 1695); they observed the sky and studied their master's writings. Mei Wending's first work, Superfluous Learning on Calendrical
Migrating Knowledge and the Mobility of Ideas
Rivka Feldhay and Gal Hertz
matter. Under his interpretation, they actually challenged a basic principle of the geocentric cosmological system. But Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, was committed to keep the boundary between the mathematical aspects of astronomy on the one hand and
Evolutionary Thermodynamics and Theory of Social Quality as Links between Physics, Biology, and the Human Sciences
Jaap Westbroek, Harry Nijhuis, and Laurent van der Maesen
Physics, through its original relationship to astronomy, has always been seen as the mother of all modern sciences, including the other natural sciences and subsequent human sciences. It holds itself to be the only science truly capable of
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2020
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A Visit from Philippulus
Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle
development of the story. 21 The porousness of the boundaries between dream and reality, sleeping and waking, will make it easy for the spider to intrude into this story about astronomy. Philippulus Tintin leaves the observatory. The scene that greets him out
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Out of Place in Outer Space?
Exploring Orbital Debris through Geographical Imaginations
Hannah Hunter and Elizabeth Nelson
Begay (2010) on Indigenous knowledge and astronomy. 4 For example: How Long Til’ Black Future Month? By N. K. Jemisin (2018) or Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (2015). References Adilov , Nodir , Peter J. Alexander , and Brendan M
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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At the Root of Learned Travel
New Science, the ‘Other’ and Imperialism in the Early Philosophical Transactions
Manuela D’Amore
world. Of course, progressing in the field of sea and ocean studies – thus utilizing the latest acquisitions in mathematics, geometry and astronomy – was the key to break with the past and impose new cultural models. On ‘Arithmeticall Nauigation
Book Reviews
Charles Middleburgh, Marc Saperstein, Ursula Rudnick, and Lia D. Shimada
commentaries of Rashi and Abraham ibn Ezra, a commentary on Pirkei Avot , texts of sermons delivered on special occasions. More surprising are his commentaries on works of Aristotle and the Arabic philosopher al-Ghazali, and two works on astronomy. All of