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Acoustic Knowledge, Sound Technologies, and Music in Early Twentieth-Century India
This project investigates the transformation and co-production of soundscapes, technologies, and sound epistemologies on the Indian subcontinent. In t
Listening to Nature: Standardized Soundscapes and Imagined Ecologies, 1900–2000
“Listening to Nature: Standardized Soundscapes and Imagined Ecologies, 1900–2000” is a comparative study of how field scientists listen to the environ
Sound & Science: Digital Histories
The database “Sound & Science: Digital Histories” is the first large online database for the history of acoustics.
The database provides access
Crystals, Colloids, and Fibers: The Organization of (Living) Matter and the Limits of Microscopic Vision, 1882–1938
What does it mean for living matter to be “organized”? For much of the nineteenth century it was assumed that the complexity of vital phenomena corres
Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire
European identity is inextricable from Europe’s views about other peoples. During the early modern period, overseas artifacts entered princely and sch
Ciphers, Sounds, and Ear Trumpets: Acoustics and Espionage in England, 1655–1685
This project addresses forms of communication related to espionage under Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. As part of the CRC subproject “Epistemic Diss
Serpents and Empire: Moral Encounters with Natural History, c. 1780–1870
This project examines modes of encounter between humans and snakes from the 1780s to the 1870s, focusing upon Britain and British India, to reassess h
Reading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe
Reading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe (2014–19)
Since the introduction of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, medical and scientif
Sound Objects in Transition
Bells, stringed instruments, theater auditoria, pistols, phonographs, and synthesizers have a long history that is deeply entangled with the productio
Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences
The broad domain of acoustics that emerged in academic life throughout the modern era is usually categorized as part of the natural sciences. Yet the
Events, Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences, February 2018, More, Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences