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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 ...
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 ...