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Science and the Senses: Experience and Observation in Medieval Europe
This book project extended the work from Katy Park's article “Observation in the Margins, 500–1500,” which was commissioned for Lorraine Daston and El
Funding Institutions, Harvard University
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
After the liberation from Fascism and the end of Second World War, Italy put many efforts in the reconstruction of the country based on industrial dev
History of Statistics at the Berlin University and the Berlin School of Economics (Handels-Hochschule), from 1860 until 1960
Annette Vogt's recent research project investigates the history of statistics at the Berlin University and at the Berlin School of Economics (Handels-
The Anthropocene Project
The Anthropocene hypothesis proposes that with the invention of James Watt’s steam engine, the Earth entered a new geologic era characterized by an un
Science and the Cultural Cold War: Thinking Science on the Opposite Sides of the Iron Curtain
Thinking about science and its social, political, and cultural implications became a matter of primary concern at the very center of political and cul
Visualization in Geography: Scopic Regimes in Geography Between Photogrammetry and Digital Cartography, ca. 1930–80
Visuality and visual representation in the modern sciences and their role for the production of scientific knowledge are widely debated within the his
Scientific Relationship between Germany and Spain: Science, Technological Transfer, and International Policy in the Twentieth Century
The aim of this project is to analyze the concrete political and scientific framework in which the scientific and technical relations developed betwee
The "Birth" of Biopower in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Claudia Stein's research focused on the political and medical world of one of eighteenth-century Germany’s most powerful states, the electorate of Bav
Asynchronicity—The Soviet Audiovision (1925–1934)
Jana Klenhova's dissertation project was a media-historical study of practices and theories of synchronicity and asynchronicity in early Soviet sound
The History of the Distinction between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification
Monica Aufrecht's research examined epistemic issues in philosophy of science, as well as ethical issues relating science research and policy to