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Thomas Browne and the Mystery of Number
Gilman 479 Marked by the ‘mathematization’ of scientific knowledge, seventeenth-century European intellectual culture is also punctuated by profound skepticism about the stability, reliability, or calculability of numbers. Focusing on the natural philosopher and lay theologian Thomas Browne, who fluctuates puzzlingly between fascination and contempt for arithmology and numerology, this lecture will explore the seventeenth century’s […]
Das Wetter auf dem Zauberberg. Literarische Meteorologie in Thomas Manns Roman
Krieger 306 Lecture by Urs Büttner
Planting of Pines and Publics: Retracing the Steps of Fakhr al-Din II from Beirut to Florence
Hodson 210 Lecture by Sasha Tycko and Peter Habib. The 16th/17th-century Druze emir, Fakhr al-Din II, who is regarded as the founder of modern Lebanon, defied Ottoman authorities and was forced into exile with the Medici family in Florence. While in Tuscany, al-Din studied Italian political and social technology, which included forestry, and, upon his […]