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Daniel Sennert and Padua: Personal, Scientific, and Philosophical Exchanges 丹尼尔·森纳特和帕多瓦：个人、科学和哲学交流

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251361

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

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Appraising Paracelsian Therapy: Panaceas, Signatures, and Metallic Drugs in Sennert’s Chymical Medicine (1619) 评价Paracelsian疗法：Sennert化学医学中的灵丹妙药、特征和金属药物（1619）

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251354

Elisabeth Moreau

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Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert on Openness and Fraud in Chymistry and Chymical Medicine 秘密、谎言和有眼睛的手：丹尼尔·塞纳特谈化学和化学医学中的公开性和欺诈

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251356

Joel A. Klein

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Metallic Transmutation in Sennert’s Early Writings: Vegetal Analogies and the Question of Emergence 塞纳特早期作品中的金属嬗变：植物类比与涌现问题

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251358

Andreas Blank

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How to Choose between Pedagogical Coherence and Empirical Counterevidence? The Four Versions of Daniel Sennert’s Epitome naturalis scientiæ 如何在教学一致性和经验反证据之间做出选择？丹尼尔·塞纳特《自然科学概论》的四个版本

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251359

Christoph Lüthy

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Behind the Texts: the Collaborative Network of Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations 文本背后：丹尼尔·塞纳特博士论文的协作网络

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251365

Anja-Silvia Goeing

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Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist Scholastics on the Individuation of Material Substances 天主教、路德宗和加尔文宗经院哲学家论物质的个体化

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251342

Helen Hattab

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Conrad Gessner and the Question of the Confessionalization of Natural History 康拉德·格斯纳与博物学的忏悔化问题

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251343

Andreas Blank

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The Proleptic Principles of Samuel Parker 塞缪尔·帕克的预言原则

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Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251345

Mogens Lærke

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The Place of God: Dutch Philosophical and Theological Debates in the Seventeenth Century 《上帝的位置：17世纪荷兰哲学与神学之争》

IF 0.3 2区哲学

Early Science and Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251344

Antonella Del Prete

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