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Toward a Digital Music Theory: Opelt’s Siren and the Technologies of Musical Hearing
Unbeknown to most people, in 1834, a tax collector, hobby astronomer, and musician proposed a revolutionary music theory that promoted digital princip
Reading in Tones: The Emergence of Cultural Acoustics, ca. 1750–1800
My current research project, leading up to a book manuscript, traces eighteenth-century concepts and practices of tone, rhythm, and prosody in the fie
The People's War Against Earthquakes
The project examines the earthquake monitoring and prediction program known as “Collective Monitoring, Collective Defense,” in Cultural Revolution Chi
Bringing Nature into the Court. The Vatican and Reales Sitios as "Places of Science" (1555–1605)
Elisa Andretta's project was a comparative study of the papal court alongside that of Spain in the second half of the sixteenth century, understood as
Historical Research at the Imperial Academy of Science in Vienna: Programs and Procedures between 1847 and 1902
The project looked into the social, institutional, scientific and political preconditions of historic research from the very foundation of the Imperia
Theater, Opera and Concert Culture, and the Architects of Sound (1750–1900)
The establishment of the discipline of architectural acoustics is generally attributed to the physicist Wallace Clement Sabine, who developed the form
Appareil du sens—Concepts of the Human Senses in Scientific Observations
This project examined the conceptualization of the human senses in observational practices from 1750 to 1830. Starting with a discussion on the task o
Publications, “Haut und Zirkel. Ein Entstehungsherd: Ernst Heinrich Webers Untersuchungen ‘Ueber den Tastsinn’,“ in: Michael Hagner (ed.), Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001, pp. 191–223., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The Relationship between Gestalt Psychology and Scientific Philosophy in Germany in the 1910s and 1920s
In the years preceding and following WWI, the European capitals (Berlin, Vienna, Prague) were rife with social, political, cultural, and scientific mo
Theoretical Methods in Studies of the Nervous System, 1920–60
The use of methods from the exact sciences in biology during the twentieth century, entailing issues of the disciplinary authority of physics, the red
Publications, Abraham, Tara H. Integrating mind and brain: Warren S. McCulloch, cerebral localization, and experimental epistemology. Endeavour 27 (1 2003): 32?36.
Fluorophores and Electronic Imaging in Cell Biology, 1945–95
This project foregrounded the tool of light in the history of molecular biology by offering an historical analysis of the coupling of fluorescence lig
Publications, "Transitive Light and Digital Pictures: Fluorophores and Electronic Imaging in Cell Biology During the 1980s”, HSS 2003 Annual Meeting, November 23, 2003.