1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911011376603321

Autore

Eming Jutta

Titolo

Der Begriff der Magie in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Harrassowitz Verlag, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

3-447-39006-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Collana

Episteme in Bewegung. / Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte ; ; v.17

Altri autori (Persone)

WelsVolkhard

Soggetti

Magic - History

Alchemy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Titelseiten -- Zum Geleit -- Inhalt -- Jutta Eming und Volkhard Wels: Einleitung -- Christopher Braun und Regula Forster: Alchemist und Magier? Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs im Kontext der arabisch-islamischen Gelehrsamkeit -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Sakrament: Geheimnis, Magie, Kult und Recht -- Frank Fürbeth: Propheten, Beschwörer, Nigromanten, Märchenzauberer, Illusionisten, Automatenbauer. Phänotypen des Zauberers in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters unter diskursgeschichtlichem Aspekt -- Jutta Eming: Magie und Wunderbares. Aspekte ihrer ästhetischen und epistemischen Konvergenz -- Bernd Roling: Die Heilige Jungfrau, die Weltseele und die natürliche Kausalität. Christlich-kabbalistische Auslegungen der Shechinah bei Guillaume Postel und seinen Vorgängern -- Thomas Leinkauf: Magie und neuplatonisches Denken -- Volkhard Wels: Magie und (Al)Chemie im 16. Jahrhundert. Thesen zu ihrer Begründung im Neuplatonismus, bei Paracelsus und im Paracelsismus -- Daniel Queiser: "Operatio libera" oder angewandte Metaphysik. Zum Begriff der Naturmagie bei Francis Bacon -- Sergius Kodera: Der Kairos des Naturmagiers -- Autor*innenverzeichnis.

Sommario/riassunto

This scholarly work explores the concept of magic in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, examining its epistemic and cultural significance across various contexts. Edited by Jutta Eming and



Volkhard Wels, the book compiles contributions from researchers who analyze diverse aspects of magic, including its intersections with alchemy, religion, literature, and natural philosophy. The text also delves into the dynamic processes of knowledge formation and transformation in premodern cultures, challenging traditional narratives of static historical understanding. With a focus on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, the work provides insights into the roles of magical practices and beliefs in shaping premodern epistemologies. Intended for an academic audience, it contributes to a broader understanding of the history of ideas and cultural practices in Europe and beyond.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910733708403321

Autore

Louie Aloisius Ho-Yin

Titolo

The reflection of life : functional entailment and imminence in relational biology / / A. H.Louie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Springer, 2013

ISBN

9781461469285

1461469287

9781461469278

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxii, 243 pages) : illustrations

Collana

IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering, , 1574-0463 ; ; 29

Disciplina

570.1

570.1/51

Soggetti

Biological models

Biology - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 1574-0463."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mapping Origins -- From Points to Sets -- Principles of Set-Valued Mappings -- Censusing Independence -- Set-Valued Mappings Redux -- The Logic of Entailment -- The Imminence Mapping -- Imminence of Life -- Imminence in Models -- Connections -- Symbiosis -- Pathophysiology -- Relational Virology -- Therapeutics.



Sommario/riassunto

A. H. Louie’s The Reflection of Life: Functional Entailment and Imminence in Relational Biology is a continuation of the exploratory journey in relational biology which began with his 2009 monograph More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology. The theme of his first book was ‘What is life?’; the theme of this sequel is “How do two life forms interact?” Biology is a subject concerned with organization of relations. Relational biology is the approach that advocates ‘function dictates structure”, rather than ‘structure implies function’. It is mathematics decoded into biological realizations. The book demonstrates some of the powers of the approach of relational biology, and illustrates how pertinent problems in biology can be better addressed this way. In the first volume the theory was developed by using partially ordered sets, lattices, simulations, models, Aristotle’s four causes, graphs, categories, simple and complex systems, anticipatory systems, and metabolism-repair [(M,R)-] systems. Here in the second volume, these tools are expanded to employ set-valued mappings, adjacency matrices, random graphs, and interacting entailment networks. The theory of set-valued mappings culminates in the imminence mapping, which equips the further  investigation of functional entailment in complex relational networks. Imminence in (M,R)-networks that model living systems addresses the topics of biogenesis and natural selection. Interacting (M,R)-networks with mutually entailing processes serve as  models in the study of symbiosis and pathophysiology. The formalism also provides a natural framework for a relational theory of virology and oncology. This book will serve researchers and graduate students in mathematics and biology.