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Arts as Situated Knowledges of Nature
This study is part of Agata's doctoral project “Nature in Polish Visual Arts in the Years 2000–20—a Philosophical Analysis,” which examines the curren
Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Interview mit Lorraine Daston über Wissenschaft und Wissen
Zum PodcastGerda Henkel Foundation's L.I.S.A. interviews Lorraine Daston on science and knowledge
Go to Podcast (in German)Deutschlandfunk: Wissenschaftshistorikerin Daston ausgezeichnet
Zum ArtikelDeutschlandfunk reports on Lorraine Daston receiving the Gerda Henkel Prize
Go to Article (in German)A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
Experimenting Exotic Drugs in Charitable Institutions and Hospitals (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
This project investigated early modern trials and experimentations on "exotic" materia medica. It considered these trials both as epistemological proc
A Visual Imprint of Moving Air
Graphical representations of acoustic space confront lay and expert publics with images of phenomena that cannot be seen. Transient, time-based, and e
Circumscribing Knowledge: Paper Trials and Men of Learning in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Paper trials were a European-wide phenomenon in the eighteenth century. Born of the experimental culture that informed the “new sciences,” paper trial
Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment
Ian Lawson's new project investigates the fashion for microscopes, and other optical instruments, in the eighteenth century—after their initial popula