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Xinyi Wen
Xinyi Wen is a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University ...
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Archaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt
During his fellowship period at the MPIWG, Dr. Gupta is working on a project in conjunction with the "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heave
Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos
In 2019 the world will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, celebrating one of the greatest minds of humanity: an arti
The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine
Recipes are deceptively simple: they encourage us to dig beneath and around a seemingly straightforward list of ingredients and directions, provoking
Translation Terroirs: East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages
A map is a combination of graphic and text, and, by definition speaks two languages—the language of its toponyms and the language of its system cartog
Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)
Astral practices left their imprint on material culture in many ways: instruments were used and knowledge was inscribed on diverse mediums such as bui
Current Visting Scholars, Sunil Gupta, Previous Visiting Scholars, Ilaria Bultrighini (2021-2022), Previous Group Members, Sonja Brentjes (2017-2023, working group leader 2017-2021)
Visualizations of the Heavens Lecture Series, 2022, May 19, Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Reading Group, After our successful lecture series, we begin in September a reading group to discuss some of the recent key works in line with the next phase of the , Links, Sep 15, 2022: "Between Greece and Babylonia, Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective"
“Tu (圖)” in Local Gazetteers
In classical Chinese, “Tu (圖)” can mean either images, illustrations, or drawings. This working group intends to look at visual representations in Chi