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Workshop | Dez 5-Dez 6, 2019
Animal Materialities: Compositions and Practices in the History of Science
Dept. III
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Is there Value in Inconsistency?
Isn't consistency simply another word for intellectual integrity? The fact that actions are inconsistent may be due to the imperfection of the actors. The internal contradictions may also be the work of opportunistic individuals, seeking their own advantage.
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Observing Nature - Representing Experience : The Osmotic Dynamics of Romanticism 1800-1850
In the early nineteenth century, the translation of nature observations into quantified records often intended to convey both epistemologically and aesthetically determined forms of experience. The book investigates the intriguing complexity of this 'osmotic dynamics', in which various positions on the significance of inner and outer world were continuously exchanged.
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Mapping Drugs across Epistemic and Geographic Domains in Early Medieval China
What were drugs? Were they gateways to divine realms, protectors from demonic plagues, commodities for trade, markers of authority, or means to
Jürgen Renn, Peter K. Haff (2019)
'Was Menschen wollen', ist keine Richtschnur dafür, wie die Welt tatsächlich funktioniert
Renn, J., & Haff, P. K. (2019). 'Was Menschen wollen', ist keine Richtschnur dafür, wie die Welt tatsächlich funktioniert. In K. Klingan, & C. Rosol (Eds.), Technosphäre (pp. 26-46). Berlin: Matthes & Seitz.
Minhea Dobre (2019)
Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Experimentalism
Dobre, M. (2019). Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Experimentalism. In S. Nadler, T. M. Schmaltz, & D. Antoine-Mahut (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism (pp. 388-401). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.24.
Astrology and Archives
The history of astrology has been written about in terms of scientific, theological and occult ideas, and practices including observations and computa
Empire of Routine: The Unexpected Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth Century Qing State
This manuscript project outlines the evolution of the Qing apparatus of bureaucratic control and communication from the time of the Manchu conquest of
The Information Order of the Prussian Frontier, 1772–1806
In 1793 the Prussian government conducted a survey, called the Indaganda (things which must be hunted or tracked down), of towns in the province of So
Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum
Right from the beginning, the term "bureaucracy" was a sneer or an accusation, to be contrasted with organized wisdom. Officials concerned with produc