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Rationality of Noise: Gathering Acoustic Information during the Cold War
This project focuses on a historical moment when noise was a political concern. During its first decades, the 1950s and 1960s, Radio Free Europe (RFE)
How Did Computers Transform Historians’ Work?
Since the 1960s, some European historians have used computers for purposes of historic research, particularly in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. H
ISMI: Eine Ressource des 21. Jahrhunderts für islamische wissenschaftliche Manuskripte
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ISMI: A 21st-Century Resource for Accessing Islamic Scientific Manuscripts
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Comparison of Demographic Regimes
Demographic Regimes refers to sets of practices encompassing the gathering, registering, and counting of human subjects in northeast Asia, with refere
Beating Reeds: Sounding Appunn’s 1876 Harmonium Tonometers
In November 2018, it was declared that the kilogram, embodied by a platinum cylinder stored in Paris since 1889, would henceforth be defined by the&nb
Budgeting and Planning Religion: Cost Estimates and their Realities for Buddha Statues and Paintings, C13–19th
This project compares the codified cost estimates for Buddhist art objects such as statues and painting from three different dynasties: the Mongol Yua
Dirac, Wheeler, and Quantum Gravity in the 1950s–60s
The project draws on archival material of two prominent figures in the twentieth-century physics, Dirac (1902–1984) and Wheeler (1911–2008). This migh
Astrology and Archives
The history of astrology has been written about in terms of scientific, theological and occult ideas, and practices including observations and computa
The Sound of Books: West Berlin’s Staatsbibliothek between Postwar City Visions, Organizational Cybernetics, and Heterotopia
In 1978, West Berlin opened its impressive new State Library, the Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer Strasse, designed by Hans Scharoun around an open, 600