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Millena Souza Farias
Millena is a PhD Candidate in the Graduate Program in Social History at the Federal University o...
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Bethany Walker
Bethany Walker (PhD 1998, University of Toronto) is professor of Islamic Archaeology at the Univ...
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The Global Grey Parrot: The Worldwide History of a Charismatic African Animal
“The Global Grey Parrot” puts a charismatic African animal (Psittacus erithacus and P. timneh) at the center of world history. Drawing on diverse sour
The Forgotten History of Intercropping: Changing Perceptions among Western Agronomists since the 19th Century
In the early twentieth century, colonial agricultural officers often regarded “intercropping” as a prime example of peasant “backwardness.” Unlike the
Grasping Heaven and Earth: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine
Drawing on a wide range of Chinese sources from the seventh to the twentieth century—medical treatises, religious texts, encyclopedias, divination man
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Traveling the Graphic Tactility: Chinese Pulse Illustrations in Seventeenth Century Europe
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when European sojourners in China introduced Chinese pulse diagnosis to the West, many of them deployed g
Network Study of Scientific Knowledge in the Early Modern Period
This project investigates complex systems consisting of many interacting components that cannot be simply studied by analyzing the properties of their
The Evolution of Scientific Visual Language in Early Modern Science: A Machine-Learning Based Analysis
This research wishes to define and describe the evolution of visual language in early modern astronomy. This project is a part of the research group “
Lecture Series in the “History of Knowledge” Announced
Summer 2018 Lecture Series in the “History of Knowledge” announced
Mai 29, 2018Berliner Zentrum veranstaltet Vortragsreihe zur Wissensgeschichte
Vorträge zur Wissensgeschichte im Mai und Juni, organisiert von den Postdocs des Berliner Zentrums für Wissensgeschichte
Mai 29, 2018