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"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
Roberto Lalli wird auf der Berlin Science Week einen key-note-Vortrag halten (4. November 2019)
Roberto Lalli wird auf der Berlin Science Week einen key-note-Vortrag halten
Oct 4, 2019 Mehr LesenResearch Scholar Roberto Lalli to Deliver Keynote Lecture at Berlin Science Week (November 4, 2019)
Research Scholar Roberto Lalli to deliver keynote lecture at Berlin Science Week (November 4, 2019)
Oct 4, 2019 Learn MoreBlood 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
Encounters between Medicine, Literature, Philosophy, and their Circulation in Public Debates
One crucial question in tracing the history of normalcy is: How does a term come to be established as a category and used to designate something as ab
Rosemarie Trockel’s Rorschach-Bilder, or, Interpretation as a Special Kind of Perception
In 1921, Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) published Psychodiagnostik. Methodik und Ergebnisse eines Wahrnehmungsdiagnostischen Experimentes (Deutenlassen
From Cennini to de Mayerne: Artists’ Recipes for Painting Materials and Techniques, 1400-1650
This project studied and reconstructed artisanal knowledge appropriated by artists through the close examination of one type of primary source: artist
Publications, The Recipes Project, Related Digital Material:, ColourConText Website, Cooperation Partners, Transitions, Université de Liège
Experimental Archeology: Scientific Techniques and Recipes from the Iberian Peninsula (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
This project focused on the assessment of scientific and technical knowledge gained in late medieval Spain in various fields of knowledge, and its app
An Unknown Treatise on Shadows Referred to by Leonardo Da Vinci
This Working Group chapter project was an exploration of the optical sources used by Leonardo da Vinci in his research on shadows. As most sources of
Alhacen volgare
The De li aspecti (Codex Vat. Lat. 4595) is an Italian translation of the De aspectibus, which is a Latin translation of Ibn al-Haytam’s Kitab al-Mana
Perspectiva+ Website, Perspectiva+