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Record W2506590835 · doi:10.1057/9780230522619_2

The Animism of Ambient Air at the End of the Middle Ages

2005· book-chapter· en· W2506590835 on OpenAlexaff
Claude Gagnon

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2005
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicHistorical Astronomy and Related Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPtolemy's table of chordsAstrologyAnimismMiddle AgesSkySoulNatural philosophyNatural (archaeology)HistoryAncient historyLiteratureArtClassicsPhilosophyAstronomyArchaeologyEpistemologyPhysics

Abstract

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Greek pneumatics will serve as our horizon point. The pneuma, or vital breath, has as its source the soul of the world, animating Ptolemy’s sky as well as Galen’s medicine. In Ptolemy’s sky, the stars have a determining influence on earthly mixed bodies, along with the elementary composition of bodies; the sky has great explanatory power for the most important thinkers of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This primary causal role played by the sky in all natural and human events is totally absent from modern calculations and problematics: astrology has been marginalized in the world of knowledge for the past several centuries. On the contrary, physicians and other scientists of Antiquity and the occidental Middle Ages uphold the existence of the Astrum, composed of fluxes originating from each planet and of the influence of the constellations upon the events under examination.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.909
Threshold uncertainty score0.695

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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