astronomy

Véronique Dasen

Véronique Dasen is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Véronique Dasen rather than just read about it. In short: Véronique Dasen (born 1957) is a Swiss archaeologist and Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Fribourg. Her research is led in a multidisciplinary and anthropological perspective.

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Reproduce the core statement of Véronique Dasen from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Véronique Dasen (born 1957) is a Swiss archaeologist and Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Fribourg. Her research is led in a multidisciplinary and anthropological perspective. Her research interests range from ancient iconography and material culture, the history of the body, of medicine and magical practices to gender studies, history of childhood, and ludic culture (games and divination, games and love, passage rites).

Career Dasen received her PhD in 1989 from the University of Oxford with a thesis titled "Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece", which she published as a monograph in 1993. Since 2008, she has worked as the Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Fribourg. She was the fifth woman to receive her habilitation from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Fribourg in 2000. In 2016, she gave a series of lectures at the École pratique des hautes études on 'Magic, divination, and the history of the body'. In 2017, she was a visiting lecturer at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Also in 2017 she was involved in the successful funding application to the European Research Council for a €2.4million grant for a five-year project titled 'Locus Ludi: The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity'. Dasen is the chair of the panel 'SHS-4 Social sciences and humanities' for the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique.

Publications 2018. "Amulets, the Body and Personal Agency", in Parker, A. and McKie, S. (eds) Material Approaches to Roman Magic: Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances (TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology 2). Oxford, Oxbow. 2015. "Probaskania: Amulets and Magic in Antiquity", in Boschung, D. and Bremmer, J. The Materiality of Magic (Mophomata 20). Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink. 2015. Le sourire d'Omphale. Maternité et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité. Rennes. 2014. With Spieser, J-M., Les savoirs magiques et leur transmission de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Florence 2010. With Späth, T. Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture. Oxford 2010. 2008. With King, H. La médecine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Lausanne 2005. Jumeaux, jumelles dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Kilchberg. 1993. Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology). Oxford, Clarendon Press.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Véronique Dasen

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Véronique Dasen claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Véronique Dasen before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Véronique Dasen ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Véronique Dasen

In research: Véronique Dasen appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Véronique Dasen in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Véronique Dasen is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1957 births, Academic staff of the University of Fribourg, Alumni of the University of Oxford, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Véronique Dasen outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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