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Director Dagmar Schäfer Elected Member of Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)
Director Dagmar Schäfer elected member of Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)
Nov 16, 2020 Acatech WebsiteJudgments of Similarity and Idealizations in Geodetical Practices
Scientists construct models to gain understanding of natural phenomena in the world. Such models can adopt a variety of shapes and representational st
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Vegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged call on chemistry, bi
Magnes. Der Magnetstein und der Magnetismus in den Wissenschaften der Frühen Neuzeit
Why does a magnet attract iron? Why does a compass needle point north? Although the magnet or lodestone was known since antiquity, magnetism only became an important topic in natural science and technology in the early modern period.
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African Chemistry: Science with an African Totem
African Chemistry struggles with what it means to talk about African chemistry as imagined and practiced by Africans. Not simply western chemistry in
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Empire, Nature, and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400–1800
Pre-modern materia medica and pharmacological practices have been shaped through interaction not only with medical theory and practice, but also with
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Geological Knowledge in the Making of Modern Northeast Asia
My project sheds light on the role of geological knowledge in shaping the history of modern Northeast Asia, focusing on geological explorations o
Local Identity and State along the Grand Canal: Transforming Agrarian Societies in the Northern Grand Canal Region, 1289–1855
This manuscript project investigates the environmental history of the larger Jining region in the Ming and Qing dynasties, much of which was the heyda
Multimedia and the History of Science/Sound of Silk Film Project
The "multimedia journal" is a five-year project initiated by Dagmar Schäfer. The project examines ways of creating scientific articles, editorially an
Article, Peripheral Matters: Selvage/Chef-de-piece Inscriptions on Chinese Silk Textiles.
Narratives of Transformation: The Globalization of Indigenous Knowledge
This project links cultural and intellectual history, Indigenous studies, narrative studies, and the history of science to investigate the influence o