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Dysmorphology's Archives: Collecting and Processing Data on Inborn Anomalies
Monstrous births and inborn handicaps were known from the antiquity onwards, but dysmorphology—the study of inborn anomalies—came into being in the tw
Photography and Astronomy
During her time at the MPIWG Charlotte Bigg worked on a book, Photography and Astronomy, to appear in Reaktion Books’ Exposure series on the history o
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
The Epistemic Effect of Display Practices on the Development of Pre-Linnean Taxonomy
Studies of display practices in early-modern museums have mainly sprung from careful analysis of eye-witness descriptions and contemporaneous illustra
Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches to an Old Topic
In this research project, Mona Friedrich studied the rise of organized record-keeping from roughly 1450 to 1789. It was only during this period that a
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
Poe's American Experiments
The writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) dramatize the challenges of the archive: the rites of burial and exhumation, the perils of encryption and
Circa. Circulations of Knowledge in the History of Climate Modeling
In this PhD thesis project Christoph Rosol investigated several historical moments and epistemological facets in the genealogy of so-called General Ci
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