538 Search Results
Discussion
MoreDevices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Color Beginnings
Color was long excluded from the “characters” or “differentiae” used to describe species and thus to distinguish species from each other. For late eig
Allegoresis and Etymology in the Greco-Latin Scholarly Traditions
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," this project focused on two scholarly activities that can be interre
Publications, Glenn W. Most, “Editor’s Introduction,” Sebastiano Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann’s Method, edited and translated by G.W. Most (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 1-32.
Drawing from Life: John La Farge, William James, and the Search for Truth in Art, Science and Philosophy
Cecelia Watson's project explored the influence of the painter John La Farge on William James’s psychology and philosophy. James and La Farge studied
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
After the liberation from Fascism and the end of Second World War, Italy put many efforts in the reconstruction of the country based on industrial dev
Asynchronicity—The Soviet Audiovision (1925–1934)
Jana Klenhova's dissertation project was a media-historical study of practices and theories of synchronicity and asynchronicity in early Soviet sound