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Der 500. Todestag von Leonardo da Vinci
MoreAstrology and Archives
The history of astrology has been written about in terms of scientific, theological and occult ideas, and practices including observations and computa
Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum
Right from the beginning, the term "bureaucracy" was a sneer or an accusation, to be contrasted with organized wisdom. Officials concerned with produc
Charting Interior and Exterior Worlds: Towards a Social Geography of Medieval Chinese Healthcare
Many histories of Chinese medicine assert that the compilation of the classical corpus (circa 100 BCE–200 CE) resulted in the formation of a rational,
A Political Ecology of Sound Insulation
My project counts the cost paid for sound’s insulation as a reproducible matter of concern. The “political ecology” I am assembling documents the impo
Exploring the Material Culture of Acoustics in German Collections
There is an extensive literature on the history of acoustics in Germany, complemented by diverse collections of surviving historic acoustical instrume
"Understanding is Within One’s Grasp” (遼 然 在 握 Liaoran zai wo): Hand Mnemonics and Chinese Arts of Memory
When Chinese authors included diagrams of hands with characters inscribed on them in their books, they used the hand as a tu 圖—a diagram, map, illustr
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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Blood Groups and the Rise of Human Genetics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
This project offered a new postwar history of human genetics, by examining how, in mid-twentieth century Britain, blood groups were made into objects
Epistemologies of Heritable Disease Classifications in the Early 1950s
This project asked how genetic researchers reconfigured disease categories during the 1950s, when human genetics was being consolidated as a scientifi