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Artisan Naturalists
This project draws together new research with previously published articles to explore how scientific knowledge often requires interaction between dis
Euclide's Elements in the West and China: Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge along the Silk Road
Zhigang Ji Jihe Yuanben(几何原本), translated by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi in 1607
This project has two distinct but interlocking elements: The first starts from the general context of cultural communication between Ch
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How Images Obscure the Anthropocene, or, How Not to See
Since the 1970s, activists have often assumed that pictures of environmental disaster would mobilize the public against ecological degradation. H
Bourgeois Psychology and the Limits of Nature
Theories of consumer decision-making explicitly geared towards advertising executives and branding gurus have been so assiduously popularized that the
Laboratory Landscapes. The Alps as a Medium of Physiology around 1900
This dissertation project aimed at the historical encounter of experimental physiology and alpinism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri
Publications, „Occhi stanchi. Al fin de siècle, alla fine del sublime,“ forthcoming in: Michael Wedekind and Claudio Ambrosi, eds., In Vetta! L'alpinismo come proiezione di modelli culturali e sociali borghesi tra Otto e Novecento. Treviso: Antilia, 2004., Related Digital Sources, The Virtual Laboratory of Physiology, 1830–1930, Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
The Demarcation of Science in Historical Perspective
The image of science as a mirror of nature has been key not only to defining science but also to its treatment as a historical phenomenon. This image
Knowledge in Transit
We often think about knowledge being made in specific places, and then passed on to others, so that the making and communicating of knowledge are sepa
Gardens of Steam: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Berlin Landscape
A remarkable feature of “English” landscape gardens built in the Berlin area in the nineteenth century is that they were virtually all powered by stea
Naturalizing Deduction
This project explores how mathematical faculties were understood in new ways through the lens of modern digital computing in the field of automated re
Islam through American Eyes: The Life and Culture of Clifford Geertz
In the twentieth century, Western anthropologists studied the social practices of Arab and Muslim communities to an unprecedented extent. In the proce