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Frankfurter Rundschau publishes response to climate change statement by Leopoldina
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Verwalten von Wissenschaft, eine Kunst
Nettelbeck, J. (2019). Verwalten von Wissenschaft, eine Kunst. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
Indo-Pacific Beads
Indo-Pacific beads are important trade commodities exchanged along the Maritime Silk Route. Previous studies have focused mainly on the Indo-Pacific b
Symposium | Oct 16, 2019 | 09:00 to 17:30
Fünfzig Jahre später – fünfzig Jahre weiter?
Co-organized by the Max Planck Society and the Research Program on the History of the Max Planck Society
Max Planck Research Program (GMPG)
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Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China
This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources-paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts-and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history.
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Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
Indigenous China used a concept of benming (“personal destiny” 本命) to predict and pray for a person’s life starting from the third century. The i
Radiation, Science, and Spiritualism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
The emergence of modern health-related commodities and tourism in the late Meiji and Taisho eras (1900s to 1920s) was paradoxically accompanied by a r
Sonja Brentjes (2018)
Who translated Euclid’s ‘Elements’ into Arabic?
Brentjes, S. (2018). Who translated Euclid’s ‘Elements’ into Arabic? In J. Hämeen-Anttila, & I. Lindstedt (Eds.), Translation and transmission: collection of articles (pp. 21-54). Münster: Ugarit Verlag.
Xue Fengzuo's 薛鳳祚 (1600–1680) Astronomical Works
In the late Ming dynasty, the Jesuit missionaries first introduced European science into China, and the scientific exchanges between the Jesuits and C