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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century “European” Botanical Classic
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In the 1650s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) developed a series of initiatives to better learn the truths of Asian nature. Their extensive information network—merchants, ships’ captains, sailors, surgeons—found and shipped the natural objects from Asia that dazzled Europe, reporting back on the new worlds they encountered.
Minakshi Menon
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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: Der eurasische Lebensweg eines „europäischen“ Klassikers der Botanik aus dem 17. Jahrhundert
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In den 1650er Jahren entwickelte die Niederländische Ostindien-Kompanie (VOC) eine Reihe von Initiativen, um die Natur in Asien besser zu erforschen. Das nötige Know-how lieferte ihr weitreichendes Netzwerk aus Handelsreisenden, Kapitänen, Seeleuten und Medizinern. Diese transportierten die in Europa begehrten asiatischen Naturobjekte in ihre Heimat, wo sie von ihren Begegnungen mit den neuen Welten berichteten.
Minakshi Menon
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Experience in Translation: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World
This working group presents a global palette of historical and philosophical studies on the ways in which experience—as a tool and object of science—t
Carbon Cosmotechnics
Conducted through artistic research methods and practice, Carbon Cosmotechnics will examine the “low carbon” socio-technical imaginary emerging in con
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Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT) Working Group Featured in ISIS Issue 113
ISIS Issue 113 featuring LoGaRT Working Group members Shellen Xiao Wu and Jiajing Zhang
Dez 21, 2022 Isis Go To JournalLocal Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT) Arbeitsgruppe erscheint in ISIS-Ausgabe 113
Alumni der LoGaRT-Arbeitsgruppe Shellen Xiao Wu und Jiajing Zhang in ISIS-Ausgabe 113 vorgestellt
Dez 21, 2022 Isis Zum JournalAt the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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Communities of Reproductive Knowledge
Reproduction is rarely out of the news. Despite fierce competition for public attention from pandemic, war, climate change, social unrest, and economi
Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen