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Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History: "A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" (Karine Chemla)

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"A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" Karine Chemla (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study and CNRS, University Paris Diderot) Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History...

Alex Garnick

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Region: Europe
Time: 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century
Theme: Intellectual History; History of Mathematics

Karine Chemla: “Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: A View from Chinese Sources” (Harvard University Asia Center)

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Science and Technology in Asia, Harvard University Fall 2024 Online Seminar Series More Information and Registration: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia

Alina Huselid

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Alina Boying Huselid studies medieval and early modern Spanish art and its connections to northern Europe, especially the Low Countries. Her research spans painting, sculpture, and manuscripts, tied together by an interest in the visual environment...

Manuel Medrano

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Regions: Latin America, Europe
Times: 16th to 20th centuries
Themes: History of Science, History of the Book, Intellectual History, Literacy and Writing Systems

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard, where he examines pre...

History of Philosophy Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: Michael Boch, “Kant's Pure Rational Sciences within the Deformalization of Early Modern Logic”

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Abstract: Kant's place in the history of logic is controversial today. Historians of formal logic (Kneale and Kneale, Bochenski) dispute Kant's importance for the history of logic and even deny him the status of a logician. In recent years, however, there...

Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles) "From the First Principles of Experience to the Invention of Empiricism" (History of Philosophy Workshop)

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More Information Abstract: In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz overlooks Locke's admission of the capacity to know self-evident truths. Through this omission, he portrays Locke as claiming that all knowledge derives solely from sensible...

Hansong Li

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Exhibition Opening Talk: "Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library"

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A major exhibition, Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library, showcases and interprets the King’s Chapel Library Collection, one of the surviving treasures of 17th century Boston. Come explore the city's colonial history, the fine crafts of...

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Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Book History: "A historical approach to the reading of ancient mathematical texts and why this matters" (Karine Chemla)

Alex Garnick

Karine Chemla: “Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: A View from Chinese Sources” (Harvard University Asia Center)

Alina Huselid

Manuel Medrano

History of Philosophy Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: Michael Boch, “Kant's Pure Rational Sciences within the Deformalization of Early Modern Logic”

Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles) "From the First Principles of Experience to the Invention of Empiricism" (History of Philosophy Workshop)

Hansong Li

Exhibition Opening Talk: "Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library"