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Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
The founder of the Ming dynasty in China, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), and his successors used translations and inter-cultural correspondences (or equival
The Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests over the Twentieth Century
The evaluation of medical tests is challenging. Traditionally, the focus of medical testing has been on the evaluation of diagnostic accuracy, under t
Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology
In this project, I seek to understand critiques of technology after World War II by arguing that technological choices are inherently moral choices. D
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
Interpretation of the Cambridge Cockpit Experiments
During the 1940s, members of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge worked closely with the Royal Air Force on problems connected
Qun Che
Qun Che obtained her doctorate in History of Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiaotong Univers...
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A Permanent Revolution. Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848–1942
Logistics, both materially and metaphorically, is tied to histories of urbanization. As a managerial rationality and a material practice for reorganiz
Optical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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The Reception of Latitude and Longitude in Early Modern China, 1644–1900
This project examines Qing scholars’ effort to integrate conventional Chinese cartographical practice and the Jesuit-style latitude-longitude coordina