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Picturing as Practice: Placing a Square above a Square in the Central Middle Ages
This project examined the many pictures of solids added to the margins of Macrobius's fifth-century Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Sci
Drawing from Life: John La Farge, William James, and the Search for Truth in Art, Science and Philosophy
Cecelia Watson's project explored the influence of the painter John La Farge on William James’s psychology and philosophy. James and La Farge studied
All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
"All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929–1989" presents a series of case studies in the methods by which social (ec
Edging into the Wild
The analogy between artificial selection and natural selection forms a powerful rhetorical component of Darwin's argument in On the Origin of Species.
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
Epistemologies of the Living between 1900 and 1960
“We suspect that, to do mathematics, it would suffice that we be angels. But to do biology, even with the aid of intelligence, we sometimes need to fe
The Government of Techno-Science and Techno-Products at Global Level
Dominique Pestre's research project dealt with the government of techno-sciences and techno-industrial products at various scales since the Second Wor
Publications, Pestre, D. (Ed.). (2014). Le Gouvernement des Techno-sciences. Gouverner le progrès et ses dégâts depuis 1945. Paris, La Découverte., Funding Institutions, Centre Alexandre Koyré
Practices and Paths of Rationality in Eighteenth-century Naples
The aim of Francesco Paolo de Ceglia's research is to shed light on the way in which eighteenth-century science examined a particular category of mira
Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics from the Cold War to the Present
In her dissertation project, Alma Steingart tracked the development of the American mathematical community in the decades following World War II. Math
A Cultural History of Breathing
Familiar breathing—right under our noses—has at times followed and at times constituted the ever-changing boundary between what is considered “natural