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Architecture in Two Dimensions. From Drawing to Photography

From the early Renaissance—from Leon Battista Alberti—to Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus to today’s computer modeling, architects have perennially strugg
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Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France

This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica
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Sound & Science: Digital Histories

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Die Forschungsgruppe „Epistemes of Modern Acoustics“ („Episteme der modernen Akustik“) am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) geht mit ihrer Datenbank „Sound & Science. Digital Histories“ („Schall & Wissenschaft. Digitale Geschichte“) online. Die Datenbank bietet einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Quellen der Akustikgeschichte, unter anderem ein Multimediaarchiv mit Primärquellenmaterial, eine Dokumentation erhaltener Technik und historische Reenactments akustischer Experimente.

Sound & Science: Digital Histories

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An initiative of the Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics,” "Sound & Science" provides unprecedented access to sources in the history of acoustics, including a multimedia archive of primary source material, documentation of surviving technology, and historical reenactments of experiments in acoustics.

Context and Error in the Epistemology of Scientific Experiment

Within traditional epistemology, skeptical scenarios challenge the idea that knowledge can be gained. These scenarios demand a level of justification—
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The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877

This project studies early statistics—­statistical science before its mathematization—in Britain, which was responsible for the advent of an unprecede
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Sebastian Felten (2018)

The history of science and the history of bureaucratic knowledge : Saxon mining, circa 1770

Felten, S. (2018). The history of science and the history of bureaucratic knowledge: Saxon mining, circa 1770. History of Science, 56(4), 403-431. doi:10.1177/0073275318792451.

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Digital Humanities Workshop | Sep 18, 2018  |  12:00 bis 13:30

Introduction to BBL

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Digital Humanities Workshop | Okt 2, 2018  |  12:00 bis 13:30

From Local Gazetteers Project to Asia Network: Working with Licensed Materials in Digital Humanities

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Digital Humanities Workshop | Okt 16, 2018  |  12:00 bis 13:30

Digital History 1.5: Historical Practice between Normal and Paradigmatic Digital Science

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