{"title":"Corners, Tables, Lines","authors":"S. Müller-Wille","doi":"10.1163/18253911-03603001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03603001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The modern concept of race is usually traced back to proponents of a “natural history of mankind” in the European Enlightenment. Starting from allegorical representations of the four continents in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the eighteenth-century visual genre of castas paintings, I suggest that modern conceptions of race were significantly shaped by diagrammatic representations of human diversity that allowed for tabulation of data, combinatorial analysis, and quantification, and hence functioned as “tools to think with.” Accounting for racial ancestry in terms of “proportions of blood” not only became a preoccupation of scholars as a consequence, but also came to underwrite administrative practices and popular discourses. To contribute to a better understanding of the history of race relations, historians of the race concept need to pay more attention to these diagrammatic aspects of the concept.","PeriodicalId":54710,"journal":{"name":"Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83053210","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}