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Sabine Arnaud's book “On Hysteria” reviewed in special issue
Go to ArticlesLarge-Scale Environmental Engineering During the Cold War
In 2006, the atmospheric scientist and Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen broke what was until then a taboo within his community. As the leading figure i
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Forgetting Knowledge in Medieval Judaism
In studying the Jewish Tradition, historians have prevailingly been concerned with the topic of remembrance and have seen forgetting only as a misfort
Codes of Experimenting and Experimental Spaces around 1900
Experiments as a scientific method and epistemological activity provided the basis for a variety of scientific disciplines in Germany around 1900; at
Brass Instrument Psychology: Timing—1840–1940
The term “brass instrument psychology,” a common term used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe laboratory psychology, sho
Virtual Laboratory Project, Essay on Titchener’s Photo Album , Funding Institutions, East Carolina University
MPIWG Map Collection: Comparative Study of Cosmographic Maps of the Qing Empire
The MPIWG collection of East Asian maps includes two versions of a large general map of the Qing Empire (printed on four sheets, overall size ca.
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The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text, and Practice
This project investigates how early modern alchemists used images to explain unseen processes. Dynamic chemical processes, involving change at a level
Toward a Quantitative History of Data
The twenty-first century is a century of data. Our lives are tangled in webs of data, and tools for creating, storing, communicating, and manipulating
Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors, and the History of Conservation Science and Politics
Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005) was the U.K.’s foremost conservation biologist and field naturalist in the 1960s,1970s and 1980s. He was also a prolific a
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