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From Herodotus to Global Circulation
“From Herodotus to Global Circulation” examines the role of data in the methodological development of climatology from the middle of the nineteenth ce
Publications, Lehmann, P. N. (2014). Between Waterberg and Sandveld: An Environmental Perspective on the German-Herero War of 1904. German History 32(4), 533-558.
The Constitution of Paleobiological Data
The objective of Marco Tamborini's project was to write the first pages of the biography of paleobiological data. He focused on:
The genesis of
Publications, Tamborini, M. 2015. Paleontology and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: The Subversive Role of Statistics at the End of the 19th Century. Journal of the History of Biology. Online First. DOI 10.1007/s10739-015-9402-y. Print ISSN0022-5010. Online ISSN1573-0387
Extinction and the Value of Diversity
This project is an intellectual and cultural history of extinction and biocultural diversity. I am currently writing a book, tentatively titled Catast
Archives in the Anthropocene
Within a thousandths of fraction of the earth’s deep history we have begun to fundamentally alter the composition of the planet to the degree that any
Die Geschichte von Big Data
No 33
Eine neue Arbeitsgruppe untersucht Datenpraktiken und -epistemologien, um Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der Entstehung datengesteuerter Großforschung zu analysieren.
Elena Aronova
Christine von Oertzen
David Sepkoski
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Historicizing Big Data
No 33
A new working group examines data practices and epistemologies across many current disciplines to explore continuities and ruptures in the emergence of data-driven science.
Elena Aronova
Christine von Oertzen
David Sepkoski
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Cartography in Sacroboscoʼs Tract “The Sphere”
The impressive opus “Tractatus de Sphaera/De Sphaera Mundi” (“On the Sphere of the World”), written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) aroun
Jean Senebier (1742–1809) and the Eighteenth-century Ars observandi
The eighteenth-century Swiss naturalist Jean Senebier (1742–1809) is well known for his important contributions to plant physiology. Not only was Sene
Funding Institutions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
"The Science of Prophecy?" The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916–2015
This project sits at the intersection of history and environmental history, situating knowledge of environmental change in the disciplinary techniques
Writing the Thesaurus of Latinity: A Study in the History of Philological Practice
What constitutes a philological “contribution” and how can such contributions be preserved or outmoded? This project examines these questions historic
Funding Institutions, American Council of Learned Societies