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Matteo Valleriani on Galileo’s achievements in telescopic astronomy
Read moreDagmar Schäfer, Direktorin von Abteilung III, im Interview
Zum PodcastDagmar Schäfer, Head of Department III, has given an interview on the Asian history of science
Listen to PodcastDieter Hoffmann über das Gewicht des Kilogramms
WeiterlesenDieter Hoffmann on the weight of the kilogram
Read moreDieter Hoffmann über das Gewicht des Kilogramms
WeiterlesenDieter Hoffmann on the weight of the kilogram
Read moreFossils during the Middle Ages, 1200–1500
Present-day paleontology in its self-description refers to fossils as “documents from the archives of the Earth” (C. Cohen). By means of those natural
Cut and Paste around 1900
Cut and paste is a technique that still exists today. Its outstanding history started in the printing age and reached a highpoint towards the end of t
Publications, Anke te Heesen: Der Zeitungsausschnitt. Ein Papierobjekt der Moderne. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
Data and Material Culture: Finds and Specimens as “Raw Archival Data”
Things—for example specimens, artifacts, trophies, instruments, commodities, religious or literary texts—all travel. They do so by transferring ideas