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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
Herodotus Among the Moderns
Over the centuries, Herodotus’ readers have cast him as “the father of history” and “the father of lies,” as a Greek patriot and a barbarian lover, as
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
The Shaping of Generality in the Emergence of Enumerative Geometry (1852–1900)
At the outset of the second half of the nineteenth century, geometers belonging to the so-called “synthetic tradition” began discovering the propertie
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
Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica
Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences (EMESAS)
This project investigates the geometrical concepts in Sanskrit astronomy of early modern India (c. 1500 to 1800 CE) as it engaged with Græco-Islamic i
Poetry Bound: On the Notational, the Parenthetical, the Composed
While at the MPIWG, I will be working on two essays in an unfolding project on Anglophone poetics: the first, on “the notational” as a mode of poetic