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From Hispaniola to Istanbul: Plants, Trade, and Knowledge Between the Americas and the Early Modern Ottoman World
Despite much scholarship on the lives of American crops in Western Europe, their impact on Ottoman science, agriculture, and economy has not been stud
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Mapping Epidemics: Public Health, and Scientific Practice in North African Port Cities, 1750–1950
Plague, cholera, and fevers, in their ability to wreak havoc on society, have disrupted the commercial and geopolitical fabric in port cities, yet the
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Experience of Soul and Body in the Chinese Jesuit Sciences, 1583–1683
In Jesuit psychological writings, especially from Matteo Ricci to Francesco Sambiasi, one can observe a cognitive sequence from the reception of the f
Translatability and Innovation: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) in Translation between Languages, Media, and Practices
Translation is an intellectual product that is as much determined by its past in the source domain as it is shaped by its future in the target domain.
The Diplomatic Corpus of Yuan China in Comparative Perspective: Training, Careers, Mobility
China is famous for not having a ministry of foreign affairs until the 1900s and yet diplomatic envoys were part and parcel of Chinese foreign policy
Edna Bonhomme
Edna Bonhomme earned her PhD in History of Science at Princeton University. Her doctoral researc...
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Jaehwan Hyun
Jaehwan Hyun is a historian of science working on the Cold War history of human biology and envi...
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Audrey Borowski
Audrey is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford in the History Faculty where she is cur...
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Shixiang Jin
Shixiang Jin is a lecturer of the History of Science at University of Science and Technology Bei...
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Oriental 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