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Binding Media. Painting Techniques in Art, Science, and Industry in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany
A painted image is perceived as a combination of forms, colors, and materials. But it is also a three-dimensional object made of different layers of c
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"Farbtheorie und Malpraxis um 1800: Der 'Farbkörper’ entwickelt sich aus den 'Gesetzen der Ästhetik und Physik’,“ forthcoming in W. Bu
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
"It Was the Nightingale, Not the Jumbo": Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
Noise is a notorious issue in conflicts over airport operation and extensions, affecting spatial planning, land use, and public health in airport regi
The Relation between the Market and the Making: Song to Mid-Qing Coal Culture
This research project on the history of science in China attempts to frame technology and natural knowledge as an integral part of broader sociocultur
Publications, Grace Yen Shen. "Taking to the Field: Geological Fieldwork and National Identity in Republican China." Osiris 24 (1 2009)
Lassen sich Innovationen planen? Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer im Gespräch mit Die Zeit
Go to ArticleCan innovation be planned? Director Dagmar Schäfer in conversation with Die Zeit
Go to ArticleSystems, Tools, and Artifacts: Technology Transmission in Premodern China
This project examined how and when technology became an "object of knowledge" in Premodern Chinese Culture. Dagmar Schäfer enquired into methodologica
Cultural Traditions of Technical Knowledge
Chinese elite writings provide evidence of concepts of technology—they reflect upon changes and these reflections in turn influence the culture of kno
A Cultural History of the End of Fossil Fuels
Taking as my starting point the presumption that we are in the early days of a massive phase-out of fossil fuels, this project brings culture and tech
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A Philological Archeology of Master Craftsmen
This was an investigation into how technical knowledge was represented in biographical writings and how craftsmen and their skills are perceived by Ch