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Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England
When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, nestled amongst the possessions she carried to her new home in Yorkshire was a leather-bound notebo
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Leong, E., Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household, Centauru
Reimagining Sinographic Archives
This project explores the processes through which specific modes of knowledge-making constituted “China” as an object of study for early modern Europe
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI)
ISMI is a component of the Rational Sciences in Islam (RaSI) project centered at McGill University, including an object-relational database created to
Lecture | Apr 26, 2018 | 13:30 to 15:00
A Market for Manuscripts: Scribal Production and Entertainment Literature in 19th Century Beijing
MoreVon der Elektrotypie zum elektrischen Bild: Globales Sehen circa 1830–1930
No 55
In den hundert Jahren zwischen 1830 und 1930 veränderte sich mit neuen Möglichkeiten der Reproduktion, der Sammlung und Übertragung über weite Distanzen die Art und Weise der Verbreitung von Bildern von Grund auf. Diese neuen Strukturen der weltweiten Bereitstellung und Verbreitung von Bildmaterial und die Techniken, die sie ermöglichten, sind Gegenstand von Hansun Hsiungs Forschungsprojekt am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG).
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From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, circa 1830–1930
No 55
Between 1830 and 1930 lay a century that redefined the nature of image circulation, with changes in how they could be reproduced, amassed as property, and transmitted to distant locales with relative speed and accuracy. These new regimes for the worldwide supply of visual content, and the technologies that enabled it, are the subject of Hansun Hsiung’s project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG).
Hansun Hsiung
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