This paper describes our project on advanced planning and scheduling for remote, fully automatic telescopes. In addition to a more advanced automatic scheduler for nightly observations, our project is also building automated tools to address the entire life-cycle of an observation request, from original receipt to the return of raw data and preliminary data reduction. Our focus is on providing ...

Examination Committee Chair: András Kovács (Nationalism Studies Program, CEU) Members: Gerhard Jaritz (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Gábor Buzási (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Zsuzsanna Urbach (Museum of Fine Arts) Béla Zsolt Szakács (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Carsten Wilke (Departments of History, Medieval Studies, and Nationalism Program, CEU) External readers: Hans-W...

This article traces a seven-hundred-year history of one puzzling treatment for plague buboes that used the rumps of chickens to draw out the bubo's poisons. It traces the origin of the recipe to Avicenna's Canon and explores how medieval and early modern physicians altered the treatment and explained its workings up to the early eighteenth century. Much of the analysis focuses on the variants o...

language; this is followed by a little on texts available, followed in turn by a long discussion of the taxonomy of such texts and a defence of the study of "academic" or "learned" vernacular texts. There is much to be learned here, although the author has not attempted a coherent study. Bert S. Hall devotes himself to considering problems of understanding and interpreting mostly published text...

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...