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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Material Culture in Early Modern China, 1500-1800
This project examines the crucial period between sixteenth and eighteenth century in Chinese cultural history through the lens of pharmacy – broadly c
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School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
To understand intellectual life and knowledge production, it is critical to examine the circulation of information. In 1996, Timothy Brook published a
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Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of Natural History at the Australian Museum, 1850-1890
From the earliest years of the Australian colony of New South Wales, natural history served as a vital lens and organising principle for colonists' en
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The Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials
West African societies have a long history of interactions with insect materials as a primary source of inspiration, creativity, and innovation. Ideas
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Matter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth-Century South India
In India, musical instrument making has so far not been explored from the perspective of history of science and technology. From the historical docume
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall: Knowledge of Astronomy and Divination
In the middle of the fourteenth century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, expanded a city in Nanjing with the power of the who
Validating the Animal Welfare Sciences in 20th Century Western Europe: A Scientific or a Political Practice?
Animal welfare was originally devised as a scientific tool, in order to provide rational, all-convincing arguments to animal advocacy. It is therefore
Experience, Philosophy, and Expertise: The Foundations of Syriac Medicine
Bar ʿAlī (ninth century CE) was the most important lexicographer of Syriac medical science. As a student of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, he is one of the key figu
Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences
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