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Utilitarian Neurology, 1803–1973
Cathy Gere's project investigated the history of the science of pleasure and pain, from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the time of the Wate
Understanding Life in the Digital Age
This project aimed to provide a philosophical framework through which the current emphasis on data-intensive biology, and more generally the role play
Publications, Leonelli, S. (2014). What difference does quantity make? On the epistemology of Big Data in biology. Big Data & Society 1, 1-11.
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The Company’s Serpents: The East India Company Museum and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In addition to the cotton, tea, and other well-known commodities of the East India Company’s nineteenth-century cargoes, the company was also trading
Publications, Ratcliff, J. (forthcoming). The Political Economy of Collecting: Accumulating Natural History at the East India Company, c. 1800-1850. provisionally accepted at Isis, December 2014.
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Auditory Data Analysis. Knowledge Making, the Senses, and the Formation of Scientific Sonification, 1980–2000
This project aimed to critically reflect and historicize data practices in relation to sensory practices within the history of science. While the fabr
Publications, Volmar, A. (2015). Ein ‘Trommelfeuer von Signalen:’ Zur auditiven Produktion von Wissen in der Geschichte der Strahlenmessung. In Technikgeschichte 82 [forthcoming]. , Funding Institutions, Mellon Foundation
Listening below the Surface: A Sonic Epistemology of Cold War Oceanography
What does it mean to hear underwater and how has it changed in the last 100 years? This question is best answered by paying close attention to technol
Publications, Camprubí, L. (2014). Engineers and the making of the Francoist regime. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press.