{"title":"Visualizing Colonial Power","authors":"Beatrice Falcucci","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this paper is to compare the ways in which some of Europe’s most important colonial museums displayed their exhibits—how colonial territories and colonial subjects were represented through visual exhibition, how the display cases were arranged, which objects and artefacts were presented and in what sequence—as the clearest possible representation of the biological, technological, and cultural superiority of Europe with respect to the populations on display. The paper will therefore emphasise both the differences and different histories as well as the similarities between colonial museums in Europe. In fact, while acknowledging that there are special features linked to the differing conditions of both the motherland and her overseas territories, a common cultural horizon can be found in the different national museums taken into consideration here and in the interpretation of the inherent propaganda such institutions promoted.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"294 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77306157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatializing Differences","authors":"Dayana Ariffin","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Mapping of “ethnic” or “racial” groups in the Philippines was an enterprise that was taken up through the direct interventions of the two colonial polities in Filipino history—Spain and the United States. The objective of mapping race or ethnicity in the Philippines was to identify the location of native racial groups for ethnological and administrative purposes. This article intends to explore the relationship between mapping and the scientific conceptualization of race during the changeover in colonial rule by examining two ethnographic maps, specifically the “Blumentritt Map” (1890) and the Atlas de Filipinas (1899). Maps are complex artefacts that can be read on various levels. Thus, the spatializing effects of mapping can extend well beyond the documentation of a geographic reality and capable of altering historical narratives and sociopolitical experiences.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74249644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giulio Camillo’s Theatre of Knowledge Revisited","authors":"Oscar Seip","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the Sixteenth Century, the Italian humanist Giulio Camillo built a ‘Theatre of Knowledge’ for the French King Francis I. Previous scholarship has debated whether this theatre was a physical place, a mental (mnemonic) space, or both. New archival evidence that has been overlooked in previous scholarship on Camillo, and his theatre, unequivocally proves for the first time that Camillo’s theatre had in fact been built in Paris. This invites a reconsideration of past reconstructions of the theatre and allows for the formulation of a new one. In this article, I have explored the hypothesis that Camillo’s theatre resembled an anatomy theatre. I have used 3D modelling and virtual reality in order to reconstruct some of the spatial features of Camillo’s theatre and explore how these insights further our understanding of his theatre in terms of historical and current practices surrounding the presentation of information and the invention of new knowledge.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75514209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catastrophic Thinking. Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, by David Sepkoski","authors":"David Ceccarelli","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77311222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age, by Harold J. Cook, ed.,","authors":"Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh","doi":"10.1163/18253911-BJA10016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-BJA10016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81659331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages, by Jenni Kuuliala","authors":"Stefano Tomassetti","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79342389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maps of the Moon. Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age, by Thomas Haddad","authors":"Joshua Nall","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84928266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale of Two Viruses. Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses, by Neeraja Sankaran","authors":"M. Mandrioli","doi":"10.1163/18253911-bja10017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72519269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transmutations of Chymistry. Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences, by Lawrence M. Principe","authors":"F. Abbri","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72641411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healers in the Making. Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250–1550), by Kira Robison","authors":"Tommaso Duranti","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88355231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}