
The Sense of Nature: SHNH Summer Meeting, June 2025 by Josephine Koopman
SHNH Summer Meeting by Josephine Koopman, Researcher (Department of History, European University Institute) “The senses,” Michel de Montaigne wrote in 1588, “are the beginning and the end of human knowledge”. In true Renaissance spirit, the French essayist thus gave words to the growing importance attached to empirical observation in extending natural knowledge. His dual emphasis […]
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