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Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Character Drives: Vitality and the Victorian Novel
Literary historians have long aligned the emergence of the English novel with the rise of individualism in Europe. As scholars argue, with its focus o
A Guide Through Textual Practices in Late Renaissance Court Libraries
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," Paola Molino's project "A Guide Through Textual Practices in Late Re
Allegoresis and Etymology in the Greco-Latin Scholarly Traditions
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," this project focused on two scholarly activities that can be interre
Publications, Glenn W. Most, “Editor’s Introduction,” Sebastiano Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann’s Method, edited and translated by G.W. Most (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 1-32.
Excerpts versus Fragments: Deconstructions and Reconstitutions of the Excerpta Constantiniana
In the tenth century, Constantinople saw an overambitious project that attempted to unify available historical knowledge into a single, comprehensive,
A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic Translation of the Torah
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," this project "A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saad
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
After the liberation from Fascism and the end of Second World War, Italy put many efforts in the reconstruction of the country based on industrial dev
Commentaries on Mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective
Commentaries from many cultures and scholarly fields have been edited and studied increasingly over the past years, from a variety of perspectives, ab
Working Group Participants, Karine Chemla, SPHERE, Université Paris VII CNRS, Workshops 2017, Commentaries Workshop, August 1–15, 2017
Crisis Debates in Psychology
This was a joint project with John Carson (Michigan), Uljana Feest (Berlin), Ludmila Hyman (Berlin), and Annette Mülberger (Barcelona).
Thomas Kuhn
Changing Contexts and Practices of Basic Science during the Twentieth Century
Throughout the twentieth century the social and cultural dimension of basic science changed dramatically. These changes affected the daily practices o