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Verleihung der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preise 2020
MehrDiscussion Group | Okt 29, 2020 | 14:00 bis 15:00
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
MehrJudgments 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
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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The Uses and Abuses of Things: Reconceptualizing Technology-in-use within the History of Technology
This project’s interconnected aim is conceptual and empirical: to develop artifact-focused conceptual tools to understand technological use and t
Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform Era China
In the second half of the twentieth century, childbirth practices in China were increasingly subject to biomedical technologies, due to the
Constructing a Prospering World: History and Technology of Jade in the Qianlong Era
Archive materials from the Construction Department of the Imperial Household Department (内务府造办处) show the production of jade objects to have been of v