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Ein Bericht über Jürgen Renn bei „Salzburger Hochschulwoche“
WeiterlesenA report about Jürgen Renn at the “Salzburger Hochschulwoche”
Read moreJürgen Renn über die Entdeckungen von Galileo und Kepler
Zum BeitragJürgen Renn on the discoveries by Galileo and Kepler
Read moreDreams and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 1500–1750
In early modern times, the dream—which was defined as a product of the imagination during the nightly sleep as the soul stayed wide awake although the
Fossils during the Middle Ages, 1200–1500
Present-day paleontology in its self-description refers to fossils as “documents from the archives of the Earth” (C. Cohen). By means of those natural
From Knowledge and Faith to Science and Religion: The Jesuit Way to Modernity
Rivka Feldhay's project was on a book manuscript about the Jesuit cultural field in early modernity. The book consisted of four sections:
The Je
Publications, “The Use and Abuse of Mathematical Entities: Galileo and the Jesuits Revisited” published in P. Machamer (ed.), A Companion to Galileo, Cambridge University Press 1998, pp. 80-146., Funding Institutions, German Israeli Foundation (GIF)
Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin
Evolutionary biology is currently enjoying a period of high public prestige. At the moment, nature’s authority is being asserted over the nature of ou
Publications, “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Data and Material Culture: Finds and Specimens as “Raw Archival Data”
Things—for example specimens, artifacts, trophies, instruments, commodities, religious or literary texts—all travel. They do so by transferring ideas
Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac