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Sylvain Roudaut

Postdoc in Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

Sylvain Roudaut is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University in Sweden.

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Medieval illustration of a monk using a compass on a wooden desk, with books, a scale, and an ornate background.

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Machina mundi

How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces

Henrik Lagerlund & Sylvain Roudaut