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The Canon under Threat: Archaeological Finds between the Middle East and Europe
Mirjam Brusius' project investigated the potential of archaeological objects excavated during European expeditions in the Middle East as raw material
Surveying Nature in Central America, 1770–1840
Sophie Brockmann's research concerned networks of scientific knowledge in Central America in the late-colonial period and beyond. Her PhD dissertation
How to Make Microbes Travel. Bacteriological Knowledge Transfer to and within Poland, 1885-1939
The PhD project analyzed media and techniques of knowledge transfer in medical bacteriology. It explored how texts and pictures as well as the circula
Publications, Kreuder-Sonnen, K. (2015). Grenzen ziehen und überschreiten. Ärzte und das Jüdische im Polnischen Königreich während der Choleraepidemie 1892/93. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung.
Empire in the Cabinet of Curiosities
This project explored the pivotal yet overlooked career of Sir Hans Sloane (1660—1753), in particular his voyage to Jamaica in 1687, its eighteenth-ce
The Earth Under Surveillance (TEUS) Geophysics, Climate Change and the Cold War Legacy
The project explores the history of scientific studies of the Earth and the environment, especially by examining how the Cold War shaped funding and r
Related Links, TEUS Homepage at the Université de Strasbourg
Utilitarian Neurology, 1803–1973
Cathy Gere's project investigated the history of the science of pleasure and pain, from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the time of the Wate
Understanding Life in the Digital Age
This project aimed to provide a philosophical framework through which the current emphasis on data-intensive biology, and more generally the role play
Publications, Leonelli, S. (2014). What difference does quantity make? On the epistemology of Big Data in biology. Big Data & Society 1, 1-11.
The Company’s Serpents: The East India Company Museum and Scientific Practice in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In addition to the cotton, tea, and other well-known commodities of the East India Company’s nineteenth-century cargoes, the company was also trading
Publications, Ratcliff, J. (forthcoming). The Political Economy of Collecting: Accumulating Natural History at the East India Company, c. 1800-1850. provisionally accepted at Isis, December 2014.
Auditory Data Analysis. Knowledge Making, the Senses, and the Formation of Scientific Sonification, 1980–2000
This project aimed to critically reflect and historicize data practices in relation to sensory practices within the history of science. While the fabr
Publications, Volmar, A. (2015). Ein ‘Trommelfeuer von Signalen:’ Zur auditiven Produktion von Wissen in der Geschichte der Strahlenmessung. In Technikgeschichte 82 [forthcoming]. , Funding Institutions, Mellon Foundation
Listening below the Surface: A Sonic Epistemology of Cold War Oceanography
What does it mean to hear underwater and how has it changed in the last 100 years? This question is best answered by paying close attention to technol
Publications, Camprubí, L. (2014). Engineers and the making of the Francoist regime. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press.