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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

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May 8, 2022
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Lorraine Daston
35:11
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
How Eye Witness Reports Are Disseminated
03:23 • 2min
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3
The History of Wonders in the Renaissance
05:36 • 4min
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4
The Renaissance Humanists - Are They Really Trying to Reproduce Them?
09:37 • 2min
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5
How to Set the Threshold of Credulity Too High
11:26 • 4min
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6
What Is the Best Constrol of Curiousness?
15:17 • 3min
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7
The Emotional Charge of Wonder, Horror and Terror
18:12 • 2min
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8
Is It Easy for One to Tip Into the Other?
20:04 • 2min
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9
Are Wonders an Exception to Natural Laws?
22:33 • 4min
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10
A Brief History of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy
26:14 • 3min
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Observations, Particulars, and Empiricism in the Early Middle Ages
29:32 • 3min
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The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
32:43 • 2min
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Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".

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