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The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island
The 1979 partial nuclear reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island was simultaneously hyper-visible and hidden from public view. It was the subject of...
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The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island
The 1979 partial nuclear reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island was simultaneously hyper-visible and hidden from public view. It was the subject of...
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Vision on Vision: Defining Similarities Among Early Modern Illustrations on Cosmology
In the present work we show how many scientific illustrations of the early modern period can be used to track the evolution of visual knowledge and...
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Crisis and Cosmology: The Subtle Interactions of Mind, Body and Belief
This chapter will lay out the main argument of the book. It will assert that the response of some nineteenth-century astronomers to unusual and...
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Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century Astronomic Emotions
This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of...
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Transmission of the “World”: Sumeru Cosmology as Seen in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings Around 500 AD
This paper considers the process of how the image of Mount Sumeru, the axis mundi of the Indian Buddhist cosmology, was transmitted from the...
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The Four Elements of Rural Settlement Form
Cultural landscapes in Asia are influenced by and imbued with value systems and abstract frameworks, such as cosmology, geomancy and Feng Shui,...
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Printers, Publishers, and Sellers: Actors in the Process of Consolidation of Epistemic Communities in the Early Modern Academic World
This chapter proposes a global view of the set of dynamics of interplay that were generated in the early modern publishing sector around a single...
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John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Progressive Cosmogony
There were two forms of the nebular hypothesis in circulation during the nineteenth century. Both had implications for cosmological development which...
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Islam and the Traditional Gender Hierarchy: 1983–1992
The ethnographic study of the relationship between gender and Islam in Turkey has a recent history dating to the early 1980s. This chapter analyses...
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Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations
of scientific knowledge in the early modern period.
It...
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Fashioning Cosmology: Franco Burgersdijk as the Author of the Dutch Tractatus de sphaera
In 1625, the highest authorities in the province of Holland prescribed the use of De sphaera in all the regional Latin schools. For the occasion,...
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The Outlook on the Universe of the Chinese in Ancient Period
In this chapter, an analysis of researches and achievements made on the creation, the overall structure of cosmology from mythological, religious,...
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“What Is Man if Thou Art Mindful of Him?”: William Whewell and the Unique Revelation
As a young man, William Whewell read Chalmers’ Astronomical Discourses, which informed his early interest in pluralism. Over time, however, he became...
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Introduction
The lack of an appropriate mythological perspective in exploring the origins of Chinese civilization remains a significant obstacle when attempting...
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From Stardust to First Cells The Origin and Evolution of Early Life
This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing...
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Practical Mathematics
The chapter shows that the characteristic pattern of interrelations between learned and practical knowledge in the field of practical mathematics can...
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Rise of Classical Thought
We are going to talk about what is usually called the classical period of Chinese thought, during which the fundamental patterns of Chinese thought...
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“Great as Immensity, Deep as Eternity”: What Could the Grandeur of Life Say About God’s Existence, According to Darwin?
To what extent Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection is compatible with a religious view remains an open question for many, despite being...