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PLATIN
Visit websitePLATIN (Place and Time Navigator) ist ein HTML5-basiertes Tool für die Präsentation und Analyse von räumlichen und zeitlichen Daten mit einem Fokus auf historische Daten.
PLATIN
Visit websitePLATIN (Place and Time Navigator) is a HTML5-based tool for presentation and analysis of spatial and temporal data, with a focus on historical data.
Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in Twentieth-Century Historical Writing
The notable presence of independent scholars among women historians of the first half of the twentieth century is a phenomenon to be found in Anglopho
Publications, Pomata, G., Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in 20th Century Historical Writing, Centaurus (55, 2013), 196–219
Collecting Brains: From the Lab to the Archive
I study the history and contemporary development of a Danish collection of 9,479 psychiatric brains collected without consent between 1945 and 1982. T
Charting the Weather: Graphical Representations in Late Eighteenth-Century Meteorology
This project examines the use of barometric charts by late eighteenth-century meteorologists, such as Nikolaus von Béguelin (Berlin) and Marc-Auguste
Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Household Recipe Books in Early Modern England
When Mary Cholmeley married Henry Fairfax in 1627, nestled amongst the possessions she carried to her new home in Yorkshire was a leather-bound notebo
Publication
Leong, E., Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household, Centauru
History of Bureaucratic Knowledge
Bureaucracies have emerged in every corner of the world, seemingly spontaneously, wherever large territories, resources, and populations were to be go
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But how have bureaucracies learned to know the world that they aspire to govern? And, conversely, how does their knowledge production shape their inne
Capturing Knowledge: Captivity, Trafficking, and Knowledge Acquisition in Early Modern China
During my visit, I plan to work on a project that explores the little studied connection between cross-border captivity and knowledge acquisition in 1
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Reimagining Sinographic Archives
This project explores the processes through which specific modes of knowledge-making constituted “China” as an object of study for early modern Europe
Science in Circulation: The Exchange of Knowledge, Ninth–Seventeenth Centuries
Commodities, ideas, facts, instruments, texts, techniques, and people all travel—but selectively. Knowledge, both implicit and explicit, does not spre