In China, for example, there was no biology. Observations and theoretical perspectives on the manifestations of life were scattered through a very different grouping of knowledge that I will sketch out below. Alchemists, East and West, set down a great de
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"Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, with such abandoned glee, to making these things happen?"
What were the qualifications of physicians in ancient China? Who judged them? Were they unique to medicine? Few records survive from the centuries in which medicine emerged from the domain of the hereditary artisan to become a cumulative tradition, with i
W. Melion, J. Woodall, und M. Zell (Hrsg.) (2017)"The articles in this volume are reworked versions of papers given at the fifth Lovis Corinth Colloquium 'Ut pictura amor: The reflexive imagery of love in artistic theory and practice, 1500-1700', held at Emory University between October 29th and 31st, 2015." - Introduction.