Martin Mulsow
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Martin Mulsow
Martin Mulsow, born in 1959, studied philosophy, German philology and history in Tübingen, Berlin and Munich. He is Professor of Knowledge Cultures of Modern Europe at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Centre. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor of History at Rutgers University in the USA from 2005 until 2008. He has been awarded the Anna-Krüger-Preis and the Thüringer Forschungspreis for his work. Mulsow is a member of the Saxon and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Martin Mulsow, born in 1959, studied philosophy, German philology and history in Tübingen, Berlin and Munich. He is Professor of Knowledge Cultures of Modern Europe at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Centre. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Professor of History at Rutgers University in the USA from 2005 until 2008. He has been awarded the Anna-Krüger-Preis and the Thüringer Forschungspreis for his work. Mulsow is a member of the Saxon and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Year of Publication: 2022
Martin MulsowYear of Publication: 2022
Overreaches
A doctor in Hamburg sets out on a search for Turkish battle drugs; three travellers to East India concoct an »unheard-of« elixir in a pharmacy on Java; Leibniz, the philosopher, tries to find the earliest Chinese scripts; Spaniards in Potosí, Peru, are forced to witness devil worship in the mines; a Jesuit missionary encounters an eastern Hermeticism in Isfahan; a heterodox...
Year of Publication: 2012
Martin MulsowYear of Publication: 2012
Precarious Knowledge
The time has come to shine a light also on the precarious side: the uncertainty and jeopardising of some existing knowledge and theories, the tricky status of their carrier medium, the reaction to...
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