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The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Phonetics and the Invention of Free Verse and All-Sound Performance

At about the same time as Karl Marx’s 1844 remark that “the forming of the five senses is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the prese
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The Observational Regimes of pre-Lavoisian Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Pre-Lavoisian chemistry, maintaining interfaces with physiology, pharmacy, mineralogy, heat and electrical science, and manufacturing, provides analyt
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Color Beginnings

Color was long excluded from the “characters” or “differentiae” used to describe species and thus to distinguish species from each other. For late eig
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Magic Pragmatism. Inner Observation and the Quest for Inner Perfection

This project explored a group of Italian psychologists, philosophers, and writers who in the first years of the twentieth century crafted a form of pr
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The Virtues of Observational Practice in Italian Scientific Culture, ca. 1660–1700

During the second half of the seventeenth century observation was often portrayed as a diligent, patient, and dispassionate investigation into natural
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The Scientific Traveler’s Notebook

Through a close scrutiny of a set of manuscript notebooks by naturalists and scientific travelers such as Aimé Bonpland, Leopold von Buch, LJ Gay-Luss
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Helge Wendt (2017)

Licht und Schatten des europäischen Kolonialismus : Reinhards "Die Unterwerfung der Welt" als Fortschreibung einer globalen Europäisierung

Wendt, H. (2017). Licht und Schatten des europäischen Kolonialismus: Reinhards "Die Unterwerfung der Welt" als Fortschreibung einer globalen Europäisierung. Neue Politische Literatur, 62(1), 5-20. doi:10.3726/4926NPL-2017-1_5.

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Pietro Daniel Omodeo (2017)

The scientific culture of the Baltic mathematician, physician, and calendar-maker Laurentius Eichstadt (1596-1660)

Omodeo, P. D. (2017). The scientific culture of the Baltic mathematician, physician, and calendar-maker Laurentius Eichstadt (1596-1660). Journal for the History of Astronomy, 48(2), 135-159. doi:10.1177/0021828617703847.

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The Photographic Survey Movement

As part of a larger project on the photographic survey movement in England 1885–1918, Elizabeth Edwards worked on the ways in which ideas of scientifi
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Alexander S. Blum, Thiago Hartz (2017)

The 1957 quantum gravity meeting in Copenhagen : an analysis of Bryce S. DeWitt’s report

Blum, A. S., & Hartz, T. (2017). The 1957 quantum gravity meeting in Copenhagen: an analysis of Bryce S. DeWitt’s report. The European Physical Journal H, 42(2), 107-157. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2017-80015-8.

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