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Experience in Translation: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World
This working group presents a global palette of historical and philosophical studies on the ways in which experience—as a tool and object of science—t
Coming to their Senses: The Averroist Turn and the Rise of "Empiricism" in the Thirteenth Century
All human knowing is grounded in sense experience. This may sound trivial to us, not least because it appears to be an undisputed principle of our nat
Experiencing Nature through Old and New Epistemes around the Globe
The colonial encounter holds a central place in the global history of early modern science. Missionary explorations and military voyages sponsored by
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Animal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
“Reflex” is an early physiological term that was initially used to separate involuntary, mechanical movements from those driven by will. During the fi
Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
Different Culture, Different Climate: Cultural Differences in Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Analysis on the acceptance of western climatology in China from the 1920s to 1970s indicates that although the first generation of climatologists in C
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This research focuses on cultural differences in climate knowledge and ideas. The central issue is: to what extent did the attitudes towards climate c
Measuring a Patient: Psychometric and Clinimetric Validation Practices and the Emergence of Idiographic Indexes, 1970s–2000s
In the decades approaching the twenty-first century, “clinimetrics” was a way to describe a methodological approach to measuring patients that, while