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Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists? A Critique of Pure Reason “avant la lettre”
Virtual“Pierre Bayle’s claims about the possibility of a society of virtuous atheists are one of the most famous ideas produced in Europe in the decades around 1700. More generally, Bayle’s […]
Creatures of the Imagination: Visualizing Monsters in the Early Modern Sciences
ZoomA workshop featuring talks by: Surekha Davies: "Life on the Edge: Imaginative Prototyping and Sea Monsters in Early Modern Europe" For early modern European naturalists, the ocean depths were the […]
The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones
NJThis talk will focus on the article: The Art of Glassmaking and the Nature of Stones: The Role of Imitation in Anselm De Boodt's Classification of Stones, written by Sven Dupré and […]