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The Invention of Objectivity

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison trace the history of objectivity in a Rhetorical Questions podcast

Dec 14, 2017 Rhetorical Questions
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"Health, Vigor, and Vitality within Reach of All": Radium Emanations and Male Sexual Debilities in 20th-Century America

Maria Rentetzi’s paper focused on the early twentieth-century American marketplace, where radium emanations were traded as medical remedies for male d
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Full-stack Developer—GIS (Dept. III) (EN)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Dept. III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof. Dagmar Schäfer), seeks an ou

Full-stack Developer—GIS (Dept. III) (EN)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Dept. III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge, Director: Prof. Dagmar Schäfer), seeks an ou

Early Vernacular Medical Books: Making, Users and Uses, Impact

It is well known that early vernacular medical texts exercised a huge appeal on lay readers in the early age of print. But we still know very little a
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Charting the Weather: Graphical Representations in Late Eighteenth-Century Meteorology

This project examines the use of barometric charts by late eighteenth-century meteorologists, such as Nikolaus von Béguelin (Berlin) and Marc-Auguste
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Anthropocene Curriculum

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In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und renommierten, internationalen Partnerorganisationen hat das Haus der Kulturen der Welt das Anthropocene Curriculum entwickelt, welches auf experimentelle und beispielhafte Weise Wege zu einer neuen interdisziplinären Kultur von Wissen und Lehre erforscht. Was sollte ein Korpus von "erdgebundenem Wissen" enthalten, welche Formen der Weitergabe sind angebracht?

Anthropocene Curriculum

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In collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and renowned international partners, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt has developed an Anthropocene Curriculum that explores, in an experimental and exemplary manner, pathways towards a new interdisciplinary culture of knowledge and education. What should a body of "earthbound knowledge" contain, what forms of transmission are appropriate?

Algebra in Cuneiform: Introduction to an Old Babylonian Geometrical Technique

This textbook analyzes a number of texts in “conformal translation,” that is, a translation in which the same Babylonian term is always translated in the same way and, more importantly, in which different terms are always translated differently. Appendixes are provided for readers who are familiar with basic Assyriology but otherwise philological details are avoided.
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Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England

When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, nestled amongst the possessions she carried to her new home in Yorkshire was a leather-bound notebo
Publication Leong, E., Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household, Centauru
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