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Workshop | Jun 23-Jun 24, 2017 | 09:30 bis 15:30
Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
MehrArchiving Indigeneity: Language Documentation and the Pragmatics of Decolonization
Over the past 120 years, language has become subject to archiving. One consequence is that today, languages and linguistic diversity, like species of
Archival Reasoning: Astronomy, Chronology, History
Coordinated on a global scale, collective observation of the Mercury transit of 1753 and the Venus transits of 1761 and 1769 exemplify Enlightenment c
Comets and Wondrous Signs in the Sky: Natural History and Religious Polemic in Early Modern France and Germany
This project took as a starting point the well-known comet of 1556, often called the Charles V comet after Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who abdicated
Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving, and Representing Geographical Knowledge
In the history of cartography, the object “atlas” has always encountered difficulty in being accepted as a genuine scientific form. Indeed, until rece
Collective Observation
Natural philosopher Edmond Halley’s 1686 map of the world winds is emblematic of a new scientific predicament that emerged in the mid-seventeenth cent
Wie Rezepte in frühneuzeitlichen Haushalten Wissen schufen
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In einem neuen Projekt untersucht die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Elaine Leong Hunderte Notizbücher. Sie versteht häusliches Wissen und Praktiken als Teil der wissenschaftlichen Welt des frühneuzeitlichen Englands.
Elaine Leong
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How Recipes Created Knowledge in Early Modern Households
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In a new project, historian of science Elaine Leong studies hundreds of medical notebooks in order to understand home-based knowledge and practices in the scientific world of early modern England.
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