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Cartography in Sacroboscoʼs Tract “The Sphere”
The impressive opus “Tractatus de Sphaera/De Sphaera Mundi” (“On the Sphere of the World”), written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) aroun
Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona
How do ways of life emerge and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we hardly ha
Between Law and Science: Unsoundness of Mind in Anglo-American Medical Jurisprudence
Who is unsound of mind? Who should be deemed sufficiently responsible to make a will, enter into a contract, or get married? Who should not? Questions
Funding Institutions, University of Michigan
Jean Senebier (1742–1809) and the Eighteenth-century Ars observandi
The eighteenth-century Swiss naturalist Jean Senebier (1742–1809) is well known for his important contributions to plant physiology. Not only was Sene
Funding Institutions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
"The Science of Prophecy?" The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916–2015
This project sits at the intersection of history and environmental history, situating knowledge of environmental change in the disciplinary techniques
Writing the Thesaurus of Latinity: A Study in the History of Philological Practice
What constitutes a philological “contribution” and how can such contributions be preserved or outmoded? This project examines these questions historic
Funding Institutions, American Council of Learned Societies
"The Myth of Greek Algebra": Philology and the Discovery of the Calculus, 1580–1710
In seventeenth-century Europe, mathematicians were scholars. This project focuses on how early modern mathematicians read ancient Greek mathematics an
Funding Institutions, Columbia University
The Evolutionary Future: A History of Humanity's Biological Destiny
Typically, we think of evolution as a theory that explains the present in light of the past. Scientific explorations into the convoluted history
Seizing the Intangible: Gestures as Objects of the Human Sciences in the Long Nineteenth Century
Although gestures have been the object of codification within rhetorical traditions since Antiquity, the project to study them scientifically only cry
The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor, and the Visual Archive
This project explores the history of electrification through the lens of the visual strategies and representation techniques of the Allgemeine Elektri