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Looking at Diversity
No 31
The Max Planck Research Group Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation, directed by Veronika Lipphardt, has invited Katrin von Lehmann as an artist-in-residence to contemplate the role of visualizations in the study of human variation.
Waagen zwischen Innovation und Wissen
No 32
Eine neue TOPOI-Nachwuchsgruppe unter Leitung des Wissenschaftshistorikers Jochen Büttner erforscht die Beziehung von praktischem zu theoretischem Wissen in der Antike.
Ancient Balances at the Nexus of Innovation and Knowledge
No 32
A new junior research group at TOPOI, led by historian of science Jochen Büttner, will study the relationship between practical and theoretical knowledge in antiquity.
Die Geschichte von Big Data
No 33
Eine neue Arbeitsgruppe untersucht Datenpraktiken und -epistemologien, um Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der Entstehung datengesteuerter Großforschung zu analysieren.
Historicizing Big Data
No 33
A new working group examines data practices and epistemologies across many current disciplines to explore continuities and ruptures in the emergence of data-driven science.
Genetik menschlich machen
No 35
Die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Jenny Bangham zeigt, dass sich viele Fragen und Methoden zeitgenössischer Humangenetik bereits zwischen 1920 und 1960 herausbildeten, als Blutgruppen die einzigen menschlichen Merkmale mit eindeutigem Erbgang waren.
Making Genetics Human
No 35
Historian of science Jenny Bangham argues that many of the questions and techniques of contemporary human genetics were first established between 1920 and 1960, when the only human characters with clear-cut inheritance were blood groups.
Wurzeln der Sprachfamilien-Bäume
No 36
Die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Judith Kaplan befasst sich mit den Begegnungen von Linguisten, Anthropologen und Biologen auf deren Suche nach den menschlichen Ursprüngen.
Rooting Language Family Trees
No 36
Historian of science Judith Kaplan studies the encounters of linguists, anthropologists and biologists in their search for human origins.
Introspection in Victorian Political Economy
In earlier work Harro Maas looked in detail at the quite drastic change in methods in political economy in Victorian Britain in the second half of the
Publications, Maas, Harro (2005) William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). (Joseph J. Spengler prize for best book in history of economics 2005)., Funding Institutions, University of Amsterdam