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Atomic Food for Peace?—Materializing a Radiant Idea in a Transnational Network of Research and Development
As a title for her project, “Atomic Food for Peace” is Karin Zachmann's invention. As a concept, however, it clearly existed in the mid-1950s. The ide
The Science of Walking
This project investigated a problem that has hardly received attention from historians: the emergence of the scientific study of human walking in the
Publications, Mayer, A. (2013). Wissenschaft vom Gehen: die Erforschung der Bewegung im 19. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer.
The Cosmoscope and Its Users: The Role of Maps in Nineteenth-Century Plant Geography
In this project Nils Güttler concentrated on the history of a particular practice amongst plant geographers: mapmaking. In analyzing the history
Publications, "Scaling the Period Eye: Oscar Drude and the Cartographical Practice of Plant Geography, 1870-1910s," Science in Context 24/1 (2011), S. 1-41. , Funding Institutions, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Styles of Observation and Experience in Renaissance Aristotelianism
“Experience and observation triumph in the new science at the expense of the philosophy of the schools in the Renaissance” in some sense, but we shoul
Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Preserving the Forgotten—William Henry Fox Talbot, Photography, and the Antique
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) is primarily remembered as the pioneer of photography. This is reinforced by the disposition of his papers, notab
Funding Institutions, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Cambridge Trust
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Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)