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The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
"It Is Madness, Downright Madness": The (Im)morality of Attempts to Measure the Universe
Numeracy, by which I mean counting, calculating, and measuring, was ubiquitous in Greek and Roman antiquity, it informed the production of account ins
Animal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
Reaping the Benefits of Water: The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
Much of the discussion of the Qingli 慶曆 and Xifeng 熙豐 reforms in eleventh-century China has hitherto focused on their economic and intellectual dimens
Politics and Practices of Data
In recent decades our world has become increasingly data-saturated. Even in the Earth’s remotest corners, data are regularly collected and mobilized t
Datenpolitiken – Datenpraktiken
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist unsere Welt eine zunehmend datengesättigte geworden. Selbst in den entlegensten Winkeln der Erde werden kontinuierlich
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Reading Group | Sep 13, 2023 | 16:00 bis 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Reading Group | Okt 10, 2023 | 16:00 bis 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Reading Group | Nov 16, 2023 | 16:00 bis 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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