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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
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
Performing Brains on Screen
Performing Brains on Screen, a book under contract with the series “Film Culture in Transition” of Amsterdam University Press, deals with film enactme
Test-Bed Planets
In 1943, in the midst of the war, the famous architect Richard Neutra was commissioned by the government of Puerto Rico to build hospitals and schools
Smartness
“Smartness” is a graphic novel I am writing in collaboration with Dr. Orit Halpern. It tells the story of the eclectic group of dreamers who reconfigu
Good Science: Epistemic Values and Scholarly Reputations in Europe, 1770–1830
The present project is aimed at confronting the processes of institutionalization, professionalization, and specialization of knowledge with the hypot
Lecture | May 30, 2018 | 10:30 to 13:00
The Intrinsic Place. Space as a Measurable Entity in Early Modern Art and Science
MoreEncounters with Indigo: The Circulation of Natural Knowledge Among French Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
In 1750 Michel Adanson, a young French naturalist attached to the Compagnie des Indes at its outpost in Senegal, sent several small swatches of cotton