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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. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.008
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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