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Apex Predators: Encounters with Sharks since 1900
This book project addresses the global environmental, technological, and cultural history of human interactions with sharks. Tentatively titled Apex P
Number Governance: The Institutionalization of Journal Metrics in the Chinese Science Assessment
There is an increasing public and governmental demand for quantification as a base for discussions and decision-making. As a type of quantification of
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Mastering the Soil and Measuring Flow in Early Modern Istanbul
Drawing on court records, repair registers, as well as archaeological and visual evidence, this project examines the nature of the premodern occupatio
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
Lorraine Daston in The Washington Post on scientific cooperation and the history of astronomy
Go to ArticleLorraine Daston in der Washington Post über wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Astronomie
Zum ArtikelThe Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
Modeled Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in the People's Republic of China
At the MPIWG, Bo An is working on his dissertation, an interdisciplinary history of computation and modeling in the People's Republic of China ov
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A central working hypothesis—widely held but rarely investigated—is that modern computing has significantly changed Chinese governance, society, and c
Bo An
Bo An is a PhD Candidate in East Asian and Media Studies at Yale University. His research intere...
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