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The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Animal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
“Reflex” is an early physiological term that was initially used to separate involuntary, mechanical movements from those driven by will. During the fi
Different Culture, Different Climate: Cultural Differences in Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Analysis on the acceptance of western climatology in China from the 1920s to 1970s indicates that although the first generation of climatologists in C
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This research focuses on cultural differences in climate knowledge and ideas. The central issue is: to what extent did the attitudes towards climate c
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while
Biological Motion: A History of Life
Biological motion has recently become a key concept guiding life-science research on the basic functions of the organism. But investigations into the
Alexander Kim
Alexander Kim studied World History and Archaeology at the Institute of History, Archaeology and...
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Melissa Charenko
Melissa Charenko received her PhD in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Scientific Questions Then and Now
This group examines questions related to experience that seem to recur in the history of science and philosophy. We invite practicing scientists, hist
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Fenye in Local Gazetteers
First set up in the periods of Spring and Autumn and the Warring States (~770–221 BCE), Fenye is an astrological system that associated poli