Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 (Iovan Drehe)

Oosterhoff, Richard J.; Books, Zeta

doi:10.5840/jems2019819

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“…This addition makes the illustration look more like an instrument, and thus relates the represented content with the practice of exact measurements. It can be understood as a visual statement reflecting larger processes of mathematization of scientific and cosmological knowledge as well as changes in the practical and pedagogical orientation of the content (Oosterhoff, 2018).…”

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Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI

El-Hajj,

Eberle,

Merklein

et al. 2023

Int J Digit Humanities

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The recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) translated to an increased adoption of AI technology in the humanities, which is often challenged by the limited amount of annotated data, as well as its heterogeneity. Despite the scarcity of data it has become common practice to design increasingly complex AI models, usually at the expense of human readability, explainability, and trust. This in turn has led to an increased need for tools to help humanities scholars better explain and validate their models as well as their hypotheses. In this paper, we discuss the importance of employing Explainable AI (XAI) methods within the humanities to gain insights into historical processes as well as ensure model reproducibility and a trustworthy scientific result. To drive our point, we present several representative case studies from the Sphaera project where we analyze a large, well-curated corpus of early modern textbooks using an AI model, and rely on the XAI explanatory outputs to generate historical insights concerning their visual content. More specifically, we show that XAI can be used as a partner when investigating debated subjects in the history of science, such as what strategies were used in the early modern period to showcase mathematical instruments and machines.

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Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI

El-Hajj,

Eberle,

Merklein

et al. 2023

Int J Digit Humanities

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“… 15 Humanism at the university has been a subject of much recent scholarship; see Oosterhoff, 2018, 20.…”

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Descartes at School: HisRulesas a Jesuit Study Manual

Kaplan

2022

Renaiss. Q.

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René Descartes's “Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii” (Rules for the direction of the mind) is a satirical study manual concerned with invention in the humanist sense of the discovery of arguments in texts, not the discovery of novelties in nature. Descartes employed Jesuit pedagogical techniques and an extensive technical vocabulary shared by Aristotelian philosophy and classical rhetoric to criticize the shortcomings of Scholastic philosophy. Although it felt like philosophy to its practitioners, technical dialectic appeared from the outside as a classroom exercise of commonplacing, fueled by schoolroom rivalry and vanity. The interplay of play and seriousness in the “Regulae” challenges standard philosophical hermeneutics.

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Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 (Iovan Drehe)

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Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI

Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI

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