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The Strange as Knowledge: Collecting the Anomalous and Marvelous within Late Imperial China
In this project, I am interested in how the strange was conceived as an ontological, epistemological, and moral category within Chinese encyclopedias
KI: Wie Algorithmen bei Erkenntnissen über die Vergangenheit helfen können
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Open Science in the history of science requires accessible open access repositories that allow computational access to research data. Digital reposito
Medieval Astronomical Diagrams
Early medieval manuscripts of only four authors (Pliny, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Calcidius) carried late Roman astronomical knowledge to the cent
Decoding the Pantheon Columns
The goal of this study has been to reconstruct the design principles underlying the construction of the Pantheon’s portico columns as well as to demon
The Pantheon Project
The Pantheon in Rome is a hallmark in ancient architecture. A comprehensive architectural survey has been undertaken by the Bern Digital Pantheon proj
Edition Topoi
Edition Topoi is a publication medium and an innovative research platform. It was created in 2013 by the "Excellence Cluster Topoi—The Formation and T
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The publication activities of the Edition Topoi require a powerful infrastructure, which is provided by internal and external specialists. The quality
Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD)
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has been announced as a partner of the New Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Da
"The Meaning of Medical Divination" (yi yi yi 醫易義): Connecting yi 醫 with yi 易 in 11–17th-Century China
The Chinese physician Zhang Jiebin 張介賓 (1563–1640) wove connections between medicine and divination throughout his three-part medical treatise, the Cl