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Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers
This project analyzes the formative stages of geographical knowledge in dynastic China between the Eastern Han (25–220 CE) and Tang (61
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Geographical Knowledge and Cultural Concepts: A Preliminary Investigation of the Old Chinese Maps Collected at the MPIWG
This project will provide a new insight into the old Chinese maps collected at the MPIWG , which proves their academic value as a source for deep rese
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Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
In our current "Information Age" we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global ne
Kolloquium | Sep 28, 2017 | 17:00 to 19:00
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
MoreColloquium | Sep 28, 2017 | 17:00 to 19:00
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
MoreBetween Marvel and Machine: The Automaton in the Middle Ages
This project is part of a PhD thesis that focuses on automata imagined and made during the Western Middle Ages. Based on the works of my predecessors
Gendered and Ethnic Knowledge: Mrs. JMC Kloppenburg-Versteegh (1862–1948), an Example from the Dutch East Indies around 1900
Liesbeth Hesselink's project inspected domestic practices of recipe collecting and the transfer of medical knowledge in the colonial setting of the Du
Early Vernacular Medical Books: Making, Users and Uses, Impact
It is well known that early vernacular medical texts exercised a huge appeal on lay readers in the early age of print. But we still know very little a