Maailmankaikkeuden rakenne sekä tähdet ja planeetat Plinius vanhemman Naturalis historia -teoksen toisessa kirjassa

2003

A Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Ancient Latin Texts Concerning the Concept of aether : Some Methodological Considerations

2022

My study focuses on the semantic analysis of an ambiguous Latin word, aether, which may roughly be translated as ‘celestial substance’. The study is carried out by utilising both qualitative and quantitative methods on a digital text corpus containing Latin literature dating from ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. In this paper, the compilation process and the contents of the corpus are described. Beside qualitative research (close reading), various computational methods are implemented on the corpus (distant reading). Of the latter, cosine similarity and correspondence analysis are discussed in this paper. I will explicate one way of combining qualitative and quantitative methods by assigning numerica…

Käsitykset taivaankappaleiden maankaltaisuudesta ja Maan ulkopuolisesta elämästä 1600-luvun alkupuoliskon eurooppalaisessa luonnonfilosofiassa

2003