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History of Science ON CALL: Anna Elsner
MoreDrawing Gestures: Investigating Bodily Knowledge in Mechanical Arts Encrypted in Words and Images (C14–17th)
Delivering a sword blow, riding a horse, or dancing are bodily techniques (Mauss 1935) that were put in words and images in a heterogeneous corpus of
Early Modern Recipes Online Collective
Established in 2012, the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC) is an international group of interdisciplinary scholars working to crowd-sourc
Death’s Paperwork: Gender, Authority, and Memory in Early Modern Science
I propose to consider the posthumous handling of the papers of seventeenth-century British naturalists and medical practitioners. When a naturalist di
Analytic Narratives and the Semantics of Formal Decision Theories
The expression "analytic narratives" refers to a small group of studies that have developed at the intersection of history, political science and econ
Cataloging Life
Species catalogs—printed or digital—are a specific form of encyclopedias and compendia. They are designed for different purposes, and "are among the m
Darwin and the "Natural" Science of Emotions
The aim of this project is to examine the methods and techniques that were developed by Darwin to turn feelings from widely different domains into obj
Authors' Voices on Records and Radio 1889-1932
The role of media—and especially of the phonograph and gramophone—in storing and disseminating literary recitation and reading aloud from 1889 onward
Bringing Nature into the Court. The Vatican and Reales Sitios as "Places of Science" (1555–1605)
Elisa Andretta's project was a comparative study of the papal court alongside that of Spain in the second half of the sixteenth century, understood as
Encountering Hermes in the Unknown: Exploring Experimental Vitamin Research during World War I
Despite the practical knowledge throughout the nineteenth century that citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy, and that rickets and beriberi were dis
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada