Ku-Ming Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 2906486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ku-Ming Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ku-Ming |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philologie ou linguistique ? Réponses transcontinentales
Les noms chinois et anglais de l’Institute of History and Philology de l’Academia Sinica constituent une énigme. L’expression chinoise (歷史語言研究所) suggère qu’il s’agit d’un institut d’histoire et de linguistique (ou d’étude du langage). Le nom anglais indique que l’institut étudie l’histoire et la philologie. Pour un public contemporain, la linguistique et la philologie sont deux disciplines différentes. Les fondateurs de l’institut confondaient-il…
Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter
Early modern alchemy studied both matter and life, much like today's life sciences. What material life is and how it comes about intrigued alchemists. Many found the answer by assuming a vital principle that served as the source and cause of life. Recent literature has presented important cases in which vitalist formulations incorporated corpuscular or mechanical elements that were characteristic of the New Science and other cases in which vitali…
Collaborative production and experimental labor
Eloge
Motus Tonicus
This paper places in multiple contexts Stahl's formulation of tonic motion, a contractive and relaxative movement of body tissues that was thought to moderate the circulatory blood flowing through their porous structure. The paper analyzes Stahl's theory, elucidates its role in connecting his physiology and pathology, and situates its formulation in his conceptual development as well as the intellectual history of early modern medicine. The theor…
Fermentation, Phlogiston and Matter Theory
This paper examines Georg Ernst Stahl's first book, the Zymotechnia Fundamentalis, in the context of contemporary natural philosophy and the author's career. I argue that the Zymotechnia was a mechanical theory of fermentation written consciously against the influential "fermentational program" of Joan Baptista van Helmont and especially Thomas Willis. Stahl's theory of fermentation introduced his first conception of phlogiston, which was in part…
Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter
Early modern alchemy studied both matter and life, much like today's life sciences. What material life is and how it comes about intrigued alchemists. Many found the answer by assuming a vital principle that served as the source and cause of life. Recent literature has presented important cases in which vitalist formulations incorporated corpuscular or mechanical elements that were characteristic of the New Science and other cases in which vitali…
Fermentation, Phlogiston and Matter Theory
This paper examines Georg Ernst Stahl's first book, the Zymotechnia Fundamentalis, in the context of contemporary natural philosophy and the author's career. I argue that the Zymotechnia was a mechanical theory of fermentation written consciously against the influential "fermentational program" of Joan Baptista van Helmont and especially Thomas Willis. Stahl's theory of fermentation introduced his first conception of phlogiston, which was in part…
Fermentation, Phlogiston and Matter Theory
This paper examines Georg Ernst Stahl's first book, the Zymotechnia Fundamentalis, in the context of contemporary natural philosophy and the author's career. I argue that the Zymotechnia was a mechanical theory of fermentation written consciously against the influential "fermentational program" of Joan Baptista van Helmont and especially Thomas Willis. Stahl's theory of fermentation introduced his first conception of phlogiston, which was in part…
Motus Tonicus
This paper places in multiple contexts Stahl's formulation of tonic motion, a contractive and relaxative movement of body tissues that was thought to moderate the circulatory blood flowing through their porous structure. The paper analyzes Stahl's theory, elucidates its role in connecting his physiology and pathology, and situates its formulation in his conceptual development as well as the intellectual history of early modern medicine. The theor…
Collaborative production and experimental labor
Eloge
Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter
Early modern alchemy studied both matter and life, much like today's life sciences. What material life is and how it comes about intrigued alchemists. Many found the answer by assuming a vital principle that served as the source and cause of life. Recent literature has presented important cases in which vitalist formulations incorporated corpuscular or mechanical elements that were characteristic of the New Science and other cases in which vitali…
Philologie ou linguistique ? Réponses transcontinentales
Les noms chinois et anglais de l’Institute of History and Philology de l’Academia Sinica constituent une énigme. L’expression chinoise (歷史語言研究所) suggère qu’il s’agit d’un institut d’histoire et de linguistique (ou d’étude du langage). Le nom anglais indique que l’institut étudie l’histoire et la philologie. Pour un public contemporain, la linguistique et la philologie sont deux disciplines différentes. Les fondateurs de l’institut confondaient-il…
Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History of Science and Natural History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works)