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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis
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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis
MoreOriental Silks and the Italian Arts during the Fourteenth Century
During the fourteenth century, oriental silks made a difference to the Italian silk industry in various aspects, including imported raw materials, dye
How Does Knowledge Spread? Evidence from Fertilizer in Late Imperial China
Technological progress is almost unanimously seen as central to agricultural and more generally economic development. However, the processes interveni
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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The History of Axioms: Mathematical Principles from Antiquity to the Modern Age
This research project aims to trace a long-term history of the axiomatic method and the axioms employed in mathematics, from Euclid’s Elements (c. 300
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
Cosmological and Astral images in Central Asian Buddhist Paintings
Buddhism played a significant role in the formation of cosmological notions in East Asian cultural tradition. Its impact is multi-layered – while the
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While this transmission process has drawn significant attention in philological studies, the attempt to trace its process in visual materials had been
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
When is Evidence Enough? The Pangea Controversy and the Drift of Evidence
In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a German climatologist and geophysicist, made public his theory about Pangea. He suggested that in a remote past there was a