Ion Gabriel Mihailescu
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (2018)
PhD, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
Ion Mihailescu studied History of Science at Harvard University, obtaining his PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on the rise and spread of graphical methods in the nineteenth-century physical sciences. His research centers on the development of diagrammatic reasoning and the history of categories as modes of cognition. Ion is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge. His current project looks at the use of weather charts in late-eighteeth-century meteorology and their direct connection with the graphical activity of William Playfair and Alexander von Humboldt.
Projekte
Charting the Weather: Graphical Representations in Late Eighteenth-Century Meteorology
Past Events
Seminar
“A Very Serious Difficulty”: the Role of Gauge Invariance in Quantum Electrodynamics (1929–1954)
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Science in a "Minor Language"
MORELecture
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Machine Translation Before and After the Iron Curtain
MORESeminar
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Chasing Science on the Move: Translation, Domestication, Transformation
MORELecture
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Of Lexical Shells and Textual Monstrosities: Tales of Translation in Late Imperial China
MORESeminar
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Tensions between Variability of Ancient Texts and Normativity of Databases: Case Studies
MORELecture
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From Clay to Modern Editions: the Metamorphoses of Numbers
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