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The liminality of man: astronomy and the birth of anthropology in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2010)
This essay argues that modern cultural anthropology is a product of early-modern
astronomical science. Analyzing a variety of texts from the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries, this text shows how the
conceptual ...
The renaissance and the round ball: spheres, globes and the early modern spatial imagination
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2013)
The contemporary literature on the Renaissance invention of terrestrial globes is fixated on the images that globemakers drew, expending great energy in determining how “correct” they were. This essay, in contrast, understands ...
Human space: the rise of Euclidism and the construction of an early-modern world, 1400-1800
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2011)
This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric ...
Spanning the poles: spatial thought and the global backdrop to our globalizad world, 1450-1850
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2012)
This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language
of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in
ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through ...
Strangers to the world: astronomy and the birth of anthropology in the eighteenth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Historia, 2011)
An important strain in the literature on the rise of anthropological thought in
the early-modern world identifies anthropological thought’s biggest insight
as the ascription of unity to the human species via the encounter ...