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How Can Sound Help Us to Better Understand Early and Medieval China?
MehrAnimal Fibers, Commerce, and the Rise of New Analytical Techniques
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fiber materials from plants and animals were intensively studied with new analytical techniques, includ
Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th–7th centuries)
This working group explores how Chinese elites in the Period of Division coped with the ephemerality that marked their time. We ask how changes in soc
State-Science-Society: Tangled Ties in China's Plans to Become a Science Superpower
MehrState-Science-Society: Tangled Ties in China's Plans to Become a Science Superpower
MehrInvestigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Jürgen Renn talks with Nuccio Ordine on Les Belles Lettres about the acceleration of scientific processes
Go To Video (French)Jürgen Renn spricht mit Nuccio Ordine bei Les Belles Lettres über die Beschleunigung der Wissenschaft
Zum Video (Französisch)Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
This project explores visualizations of the cosmos in writing and objects in the Western Mediterranean region during Hellenistic times (ca&n