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Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
This project investigated the changing valuation of complexity in nature and culture in Germany and the United States throughout the twentieth century
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
Archival Reasoning: Astronomy, Chronology, History
Coordinated on a global scale, collective observation of the Mercury transit of 1753 and the Venus transits of 1761 and 1769 exemplify Enlightenment c
Comets and Wondrous Signs in the Sky: Natural History and Religious Polemic in Early Modern France and Germany
This project took as a starting point the well-known comet of 1556, often called the Charles V comet after Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who abdicated
Circa. Circulations of Knowledge in the History of Climate Modeling
In this PhD thesis project Christoph Rosol investigated several historical moments and epistemological facets in the genealogy of so-called General Ci
Art of Judgement: A Speakers’ Series | Feb 11-Feb 12, 2016 | 09:00 to 17:00
Charting the Flow: Water Science and State Hydrography in the Po Watershed
MoreAuditory 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
Extinction and the Value of Diversity
This project is an intellectual and cultural history of extinction and biocultural diversity. I am currently writing a book, tentatively titled Catast
Archives in the Anthropocene
Within a thousandths of fraction of the earth’s deep history we have begun to fundamentally alter the composition of the planet to the degree that any