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Making Animal Materialities in Time
The work of recreating the stickiness of a gecko’s toes or mimicking a biological morphology through mineralization exemplify how materials science en
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The research carried out by the Working Group culminated in a special issue published in HSNS 53 (3) in July 2023.
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Working Group, Kjell Ericson, Particpants, Astrid Schrader
Hermeneutics of the Field: The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Agriculture
This project seeks to identify a heuristic epistemology that lies between practical knowledge and theoretical explanation in early modern European agr
Anthropocene Curriculum
The Anthropocene as a contemporary challenge demands a new form of engagement, also for the history of science. The profession cannot stop at mere his
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Since 2012 the Department has maintained a close working relationship with the HKW in its two-year “Anthropocene Project” as well as its follow-up pro
Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World
Scientific experience underlies the unquestioned methods of observation and experimentation in all sciences of the living world today. Before the earl
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
Fountain of Knowledge: How Science Turned Urine into Gold
What is the relationship between materials and value, and how have they played into scientific practice and authority? This project unravels the
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
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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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
Fenye Knowledge in the General Maps in Late Ming Daily Encyclopedias
Field allocation, fenye 分野 is the traditional Chinese theory of the corresponding relationship between the celestial regions and the terrestrial realm