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Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment
Ian Lawson's new project investigates the fashion for microscopes, and other optical instruments, in the eighteenth century—after their initial popula
Feeding Germany: Nutrition and the German Countryside, 1871–1923
This project examines scientific eating and the science of nutrition in Germany between 1871 and 1923. It probes notions of what it meant for food to
Men, Women, and the Posthumous Papers of Seventeenth-Century Naturalists
I propose to consider the posthumous handling of the papers of seventeenth-century British naturalists and medical practitioners. As is well known fro
Nature, Technology, and Daily Life in a Wartime Borderland
Drawing on court records, memorials, and treatises in Chinese, Korean, and Manchu, this project examines how reliability was discussed and attempted d
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Authors' Voices on Records and Radio 1889-1932
The role of media—and especially of the phonograph and gramophone—in storing and disseminating literary recitation and reading aloud from 1889 onward
Forging Technology for Metals Processing in the Pre-Qin Period
In early Ancient China, natural copper and aerosiderite were made into different kinds of articles by forging techniques, such as copper tomahawk
On the Genealogy of Mescaline (1887–1919)
According to Sasha Shulgin, Mescaline has become the “meter” for psychedelic substances, as it was the first of its kind to be approached scientifical
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
The genre of album amicorum, or Stammbuch, or “traveling friendship book,” became popular in the mid-sixteenth century in Protestant circles, where a
Origin and Development of Quantum Cryptography
After the German physicist Max Planck first raised the concept of quantum in 1900, the study of quantum physics was advanced through the efforts of ma
Seas of Fire—Earthquakes, Disasters, and Japan in the Twentieth Century
My project focuses on Japanese scientists' efforts to translate their uncertain knowledge of the risks and hazards that earthquakes posed to the