The Formation and Transformation of Space and
Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
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  • About
  • Research
    • Topoi I (2007-12)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Spaces
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Transformations
    • Topoi II (2012–2019)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Space
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Topoi Plus
      • Key Topics
      • Topoi Lab
      • Forum – Spatial Data Analysis
      • TOPOImap und TOPOIorganon
    • Early Career and professorships
  • Knowledge Transfer
    • Publications
      • Publication Database
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      • Open Access
      • Book Series
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      • Data Publication
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      • Spotlight on …
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      • LIENZO SELER II
      • The Soul is an Octopus
      • THRAKISCHE MÜNZEN
      • Forum Romanum 3.0.
      • MUSEUMSVISIONEN
      • ANTIKE BAUFORSCHUNG
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  • (D-1-1) Mathematical astronomy in Babylonia
  • (D-1-2) Signs and causal reasoning
  • (D-1-3) Empirical knowledge and observation in antiquity
  • (D-1-4) Organisation and practice of ancient science
  • (D-1-5) Transformation and diffusion of science
  • (D-1-6) Mathematical geography
  • (D-2-1) Diagnostics and semiotics. Medical methods for exploring interior bodily space and the theoretical assumptions underlying those methods
  • (D-2-2) Localization of intellectual faculties within the body in materialistic theories of soul-body relation (Archigenes und Poseidonios)
  • (D-2-3) Localization of intellectual faculties within the body in materialistic theories of soul-body relation (Stoa/Pneumatismus)
  • (D-2-4) Reception and critique of materialist body-soul theories in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
  • (D-2-5) Exhibition
  • (D-3-1) Philosophical issues in the history of mathematics
  • (D-3-2) Space and time in Neo-Platonism and scholasticism: Isomorphisms of topos and chronos and the location in space-time and ability to act of non-corporeal substances
  • (D-3-3) Knowledge of space and spatial entities in Plato and the Platonic tradition
  • (D-3-4) Formal theories of bodies and space
  • (D-4-1) Ontology of immaterial causes
  • (D-4-2) Epistemology of immaterial causes
  • (D-4-3) Philosophical poetry of immaterial causes in the English Renaissnace
  • (D-5-1) The globalization of knowledge in antiquity
  • (D-5-2) Multilingualism
  • (D-5-3) The aristotelization of antiquity
  • (D-5-4) Pneumatic technology and knowledge in antiquity
  • (D-5-5) Between knowledge and innovation: the unequal armed balance
  • (D-5-6) Ancient sundials
  • (PLUS-1) The Astral Sciences - from Tradition to Innovation
  • Dissertations

  • (D-1-1-1) The history of positional astronomy. From the Babylonian sources on stellar positions to the Greek reception by Hipparchus and Ptolemy.
  • (D-1-1-2) (Vor-)Geschichte der Sternzeichen. Die ekliptiknahen Sterne der Babylonier im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.
  • (D-1-3-1) Systematics of the Usage of Plants in Babylonian Medicine
  • (D-1-5-1) Die Astrologische Medizin der spätbabylonischen Zeit
  • (D-1-6-1) On the origins of the map of the Iberian peninsula in Ptolemy ’ s Geography
  • (D-2-1-1) The antinoopolis medical papyri: A case study in late antique medicinence of Greek Papyri
  • (D-2-1-6) Galen, De locis affectis I-II: Critical Edition with Translation and Comments
  • (D-2-2-1) Mapping the role of Memory in Galen's oeuvre
  • (D-2-4-1) Immaterialität, Materialität, Intentionalität. Johannes Buridans Philosophie des Geistes
  • (D-3-4-1) Formale Theorien von Objekten in Raum und Zeit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung antiker Philosophie
  • (D-4-1-1) Auslegung der 'Analytik' des Aristoteles - Rekonstruktion des altgriechischen Textes, deutsche Übersetzung, Kommentar
  • (D-4-2-1) Die vergessenen und wiederentdeckten Sinne: olfactus, gustus und tactus in der Anthropologie des Hochmittelalters und ihre Rezeption in der lateinischen und mittelhochdeutschen Literatur
  • (D-5-5-1) Wire Drawing and the Associated Tools in Antiquity
  • Third-party Funded Project

  • (D-4-COFUND-1) Body, Space and Motion in Later Medieval Natural Philosophy. The Case of William of Ockham.

Spokespersons

Jonathan Beere
Dominik Perler

Coordinator

Ruti Ungar

Groups

(D-1) Space of nature
(D-2) Mapping Body and Soul
(D-3) Theoretical Concepts of Space
(D-4) Immaterial Causes and Physical Space
(D-5) From Technology to Science
(D-6) Atlas of Innovations

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