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Topoi Digital Atlas of Innovations Launched
Digital Atlas of Innovations presents technical and social innovations in early human history through dynamic maps
Apr 19, 2018 Go to Digital Atlas of InnovationsOpen Office Design and the Acoustics of the Knowledge Economy
This project examines spatial practices of sound regulation in the large open-plan offices that proliferated after World War II in Europe and North Am
Anthropocene Lectures | Jun 25, 2018 | 17:00 bis 19:00
The Human Imprint: Nature, Time, and Law in the Anthropocene
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The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous—yet unacknowledged—conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing heritage through common ancestry.
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Fynn Ole Engler, Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel (2018)
Creating room for historical rationality
Engler, F. O., Renn, J., & Schemmel, M. (2018). Creating room for historical rationality. Isis, 109(1), 87-91. doi:10.1086/697180.
The Development of Emergence in Physics
In the second half of the twentieth century, condensed matter physicists began demanding their share on the podium of the fundamental physical science
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This project’s point of departure is to analyze Anderson’s gradual appropriation of the concept of emergence from the 1980s onwards, comparing it with
The Particle Physics Tradition in the Final Theory Program
For more than a century, the development of a successful theory of quantum gravity has remained one of physics’ most prized goals. But since theories
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This project examines the historical origins and epistemological status of this newly suggested approach to physics. It considers, in particular, the
Enlightenment and Imperial Decline: Cultures of Naturalism in the Ottoman Empire, 1650–1750
This project explores the entangled history of naturalism and cosmopolitanism in Ottoman Istanbul. I investigate the interface between artisanal and s
Publications
Küçük, B. H. (2015). The Compass and the Astrolabe: Religion and Early Modern Ottoman Empiricism. In A. Somel, & S. Kenan (Eds.