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Anthropogenic Markers: Historical and Material Contexts of a Twentieth-Century Transition in Earthly Matters
From 2020 to 2022, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is coordinating a series of geological investigations to identify key anthropogenic signatures
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Reading Early Medicine
By the mid-seventeenth century, London printers and booksellers offered the English reading public a wide array of vernacular medical books. Readers c
Collaborators' Webpages, Mary Fissell, Past Project Members
Project members past and present include Daniel Glombitza, Tillmann Taape, and Olivia Weisser, Database, View Beta Version
Penrose Interpretation and Quantum Gravity
Developed over many decades, quantum mechanics began as a series of controversial mathematical explanations of those experiments that w
Useful Knowledge in a Global Perspective: Eighteenth-century Female “Improvers”
This project explored scientific practices during the eighteenth century, focused on a group of Spanish women (female “improvers”) who participated in
Roger Bacon’s Medical Alchemy: Occult Remedies and the Quest to Prolong Life
A relatively understudied aspect of the polymath Roger Bacon’s (d. 1292) oeuvre is his desire to extend human life to its natural limits using alchemy
Modeling Data and Analyzing Diffusion Using Early Modern Cosmological Treatises
A research environment has been developed within the research project on the Sphera of Sacrobosco. Its cornerstone is a database that is fully represe
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This data can be used directly to create structural networks of authors or publishers, which then can be analyzed with network tools. These structural
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The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity in Europe
During the thirteenth century, ancient geocentric cosmological knowledge was reshaped in the framework of the process of re-elaboration of both ancien
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Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
The Elements of Euclid (third century BC) was regarded from Antiquity on as a reference work for the most fundamental aspects of arithmetic and geomet
The Renaissance of General Relativity in the Post-World War II Period
The complex development of general relativity presents intriguing challenges for historians of science. After an initial burst of excitement about its
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Therefore, to investigate the transformation of general relativity from a marginal theory to a building block of modern physics, a project was initiat
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The social dimension of the formation of the field of “General Relativity and Gravitation” is being investigated employing the concepts and tools of n
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A complementary approach focuses on one central actor of the renaissance, John Archibald Wheeler, who was the leader of one of the major centers of ge
The Science of Children
Children are scientists and scientists are children. This is a central operating paradigm of developmental psychology. It has led psychologists to lay