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Discovery of the Urea Cycle
In 1932, Hans Krebs––Nobel laureate of 1953––and his assistant Kurt Henseleit discovered the steps of urea synthesis in mammals. This was the first me
The Cardiovascular Origins of Early Modern Neuroscience
Scientists and physicians are not immune to the excesses of enthusiasm, and in the middle of the seventeenth century no single achievement gained more
The Invention of the Normal Child: The Developmental Norms and the Visual Technologies of Arnold Gesell’s Laboratory (1911-1948)
Developmental norms for assessing whether a child is developing "normally" have been subject to critique since their inception. While for some critics
Historicizing China’s Climate Change Science
China’s scientific research related to climate change has a long history, evolving primarily from atmospheric science and meteorological research deve
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Sarah Lowengard
Sarah Lowengard is a New York City-based historian of technology and science whose research inte...
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Laurence Douny
Laurence Douny is an Anthropologist and Africanist. In 2007, she earned her PhD from University ...
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Making Animal Materialities in Time
The work of recreating the stickiness of a gecko’s toes or mimicking a biological morphology through mineralization exemplify how materials science en
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The research carried out by the Working Group culminated in a special issue published in HSNS 53 (3) in July 2023.
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Working Group, Kjell Ericson, Particpants, Astrid Schrader
German Scientists, their Observationes, and Ties to the Latin Americas in the Seventeenth Century
In the seventeenth century, the mobility of knowledge arising from contact with the Latin Americas extended beyond Iberia to German scientists. In 162
Experience in Translation: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World
This working group presents a global palette of historical and philosophical studies on the ways in which experience—as a tool and object of science—t
Coming to their Senses: The Averroist Turn and the Rise of "Empiricism" in the Thirteenth Century
All human knowing is grounded in sense experience. This may sound trivial to us, not least because it appears to be an undisputed principle of our nat