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Laura Stark
Laura Stark is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, Associate Editor of the journal His...
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Gina Surita
Gina Surita is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her...
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Mengxi Zhao
Mengxi Zhao is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) at the...
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Knowledge in Translation: Linnaeus and Other Knowledges
I will use my stay at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science to pursue two interrelated research projects. The first, in collaboration wi
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
The “Persian Wheel” and Its Impact in 16th to 18th Century India
In India, the Persian wheel or saqiya was probably imported around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in the wake of the Turkish conquests of northe
“The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” in China
Funded by the Wellcome Trust with an Investigator Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number 217988/Z/19/Z) The Global War Against the
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The History of Lucid Dreaming Research: An Interdisciplinary Oral History
In the 1970s researchers at Stanford University and Liverpool University successfully demonstrated that during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep a so-cal
The Mobility of Natural History Collections: Dead Animals, Museums, and Digitization
Mobility is a defining feature in the life and history of natural history objects. Focusing on the life of natural history collections in terms of the
Sabina Leonelli
Sabina Leonelli is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter, w...
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