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Data Infrastructures in Biology
Biology has been dealing with the problems of "big data" for several decades. Even before the Human Genome Project began, biologists struggled to cope
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Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
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Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
MoreCirculation in Nineteenth-Century France: Blood, Water, and Railroads
The term "circulation" was widely used in French urban planning from the 1850s onwards to designate the flow of people, goods, information, traffic, c
Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac
Dysmorphology's Archives: Collecting and Processing Data on Inborn Anomalies
Monstrous births and inborn handicaps were known from the antiquity onwards, but dysmorphology—the study of inborn anomalies—came into being in the tw
Auditory Data Analysis. Knowledge Making, the Senses, and the Formation of Scientific Sonification, 1980–2000
This project aimed to critically reflect and historicize data practices in relation to sensory practices within the history of science. While the fabr
Publications, Volmar, A. (2015). Ein ‘Trommelfeuer von Signalen:’ Zur auditiven Produktion von Wissen in der Geschichte der Strahlenmessung. In Technikgeschichte 82 [forthcoming]. , Funding Institutions, Mellon Foundation
Observing and Making the Effects of Pollution Explicit
Unless exceptional events cause effects directly visible to the naked eye, air, and water pollution remain mostly imperceptible. The frequent absence
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Gramaglia, C. 2005. "River Sentinels: Finding a Mouth for the Lot River." In B. Latour & P. Weibel (eds), Making Things Public. Atm
Wie Rezepte in frühneuzeitlichen Haushalten Wissen schufen
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In einem neuen Projekt untersucht die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Elaine Leong Hunderte Notizbücher. Sie versteht häusliches Wissen und Praktiken als Teil der wissenschaftlichen Welt des frühneuzeitlichen Englands.
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How Recipes Created Knowledge in Early Modern Households
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In a new project, historian of science Elaine Leong studies hundreds of medical notebooks in order to understand home-based knowledge and practices in the scientific world of early modern England.
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