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Managing Heat, Gases, and Steam in Everyday Life: Urban Micro Inventions in Enlightened Europe
Postulating that the socio-materiality of an object affects both the perception of environment and knowledge production, my research seeks to grasp th
Innovation and Prediction as Practice in a Dryland Region of India
“Farmers are also scientists” is a refrain at agricultural research institutions. Yet the innovative and predictive aspects of research carried out by
Cloth Britannia: A History-of-Technology Treatment of the Industrial Revolution
This book-length treatment of the British Industrial Revolution in textile production in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries makes use
The Maragha Observatory Complex in Ilkhanid Iran
While in residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, I am undertaking a microstudy of the enterprise of the Maragha observatory.
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Qian Daxin and the Philological Revolution in Eighteenth-Century China
My project aims to identify and examine the philological revolution in eighteenth-century China across disciplinary boundaries and from a new interpre
The Implicit Listener
During her visiting research fellowship at the MPIWG, Magdalena Zorn will work on the history of listening. A postdoctoral researcher at the LMU
Event, 20. September - Colloquium Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
Science and World Order: Uses of Science in Plans for International Government, 1899-1950
In his Marie Curie fellowship project Geert Somsen investigates how science has been promoted as a model for international relations during the first
Funding Institutions, European Commission 7th Framework Programme
Imagined Disasters: Thinking Globally in the Early Enlightenment
Lydia Barnett's first book project, Imagined Disasters: Thinking Globally in the Early Enlightenment, argues that the imagination of global natural di
Scribal Scholars: The Manuscript Economy of Overseas Natural History in France, 1660-1760
Traveling naturalists were scholars with inky fingers. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, it was largely through manuscript records, texts
Goethe’s Experiments in Music and Theater, 1791–1817
The decades flanking the turn of the nineteenth century are often considered the most productive years of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s literary and sc