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A Matter of Time: Transforming Timekeeping in Nineteenth-century Japan
The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Yet glancing at mechanical clocks designed in a culture
Publications, Frumer, Y. (2014). Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan. Technology and Culture 55(4), 785-820.
Turkey Red Wheat: The American Breadbasket and the Organization of Global Plant Genetic Resources
Climate change and the late twentieth-century globalization of the food supply have provoked renewed concern about the ability or inability of local,
Innovations in Indian Mathematical Astronomy
The aim of this project was to clarify the approaches employed by Indian mathematician-astronomers to develop innovations in their traditional models
The Logic of Oblivion: Leibniz and Hartsinck in the Harz
Leibniz worked incessantly between 1679 and 1686 to establish his wind machines in the mines of the Harz Mountains. This was the experience that infor
Publications, Wakefield, A. (2014). Butterfield’s Nightmare: The History of Science as Disney History, History and Technology. History and Technology, 1-20., Funding Institutions, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Social Scientific Gaze: The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden, 1830-1920
The aim of Per Wisselgren's project was to analyze the discursive formation of Swedish social science in the historical context of the ”social questio
Funding Institutions, Umeå University, Sweden
The Canon under Threat: Archaeological Finds between the Middle East and Europe
Mirjam Brusius' project investigated the potential of archaeological objects excavated during European expeditions in the Middle East as raw material
Surveying Nature in Central America, 1770–1840
Sophie Brockmann's research concerned networks of scientific knowledge in Central America in the late-colonial period and beyond. Her PhD dissertation
How to Make Microbes Travel. Bacteriological Knowledge Transfer to and within Poland, 1885-1939
The PhD project analyzed media and techniques of knowledge transfer in medical bacteriology. It explored how texts and pictures as well as the circula
Publications, Kreuder-Sonnen, K. (2015). Grenzen ziehen und überschreiten. Ärzte und das Jüdische im Polnischen Königreich während der Choleraepidemie 1892/93. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung.
Empire in the Cabinet of Curiosities
This project explored the pivotal yet overlooked career of Sir Hans Sloane (1660—1753), in particular his voyage to Jamaica in 1687, its eighteenth-ce
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