Measuring the World by Degrees
Intensity in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy (1400-1650)
The project aims to explore early modern forms of quantification that developed in medicine and natural philosophy in relation to the measurement of intensity, an essential thread to various disciplines of knowledge that has never been explored in relation to the subject and for the period considered in this proposal (1400-1650).
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The lexicon gives access to all the relevant terms related to the measurement of intensity and associated terms
This section show cases some of the main forms of visualisation associated to intensity (ca. 1300-1600)
Explore how intensity was measured in everyday medicine