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De rebus naturae: Objects and Observers in Hellenistic Science
Daryn Lehoux's project explored the complex interrelationships between the objects of scientific inquiry, and the norms, processes, and structures of
Publications, ‘Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye; Or, Seeing and Knowing in Ptolemy and Galen,’ Isis, 98 (2007) p. 447-467, Funding Institutions, University of Manchester
Atomic Food for Peace?—Materializing a Radiant Idea in a Transnational Network of Research and Development
As a title for her project, “Atomic Food for Peace” is Karin Zachmann's invention. As a concept, however, it clearly existed in the mid-1950s. The ide
Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)
Being Brains
In the context of the collaborative project “The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture,” Fernando Vidal and Francisco Javier Guerre
Cold War Rationality
A loose conglomerate of game theory, nuclear strategy, operations research, Bayesian decision theory, systems analysis, rational choice theory, and ex
Character Drives: Vitality and the Victorian Novel
Literary historians have long aligned the emergence of the English novel with the rise of individualism in Europe. As scholars argue, with its focus o
European Conceptions of the “New Man,” 1880–1930
Stefanos Geroulanos' project focused on European intellectual and cultural history, a broad study of the trope of a “New Man”—the fantasy of a regener
A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic Translation of the Torah
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," this project "A Medieval Coptic Hebraism? Coptic Adaptations of Saad