1298 Search Results
States, Knowledge, and Borders: Does Trust Make Science International?
MoreStates, Knowledge, and Borders: Does Trust Make Science International?
MoreThe Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials
West African societies have a long history of interactions with insect materials as a primary source of inspiration, creativity, and innovation. Ideas
west_african_science_of_silk_deptschaefer_wgbodyofanimals_douny.jpg
Material Practices: The Anthropocene Earth in Formation
This first research area of the Anthropocene umbrella project investigates the development of particular knowledge economies that concern resource ext
Projects, DeptI_Rispoli_Protey_Temen_Markers_list200PADDING.jpeg, MORE, depti_bakke_fossil_fuels_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, DeptI_Steininger_Industrial_Catalysis_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, turnbull_ofen_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, ferrocarril-habana_guines_besser_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, Germanese_oil_company_magazines_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, steininger_energy-3_list200PADDING.jpg, MORE, energy_list200PADDING.jpeg, MORE, holbein_bergbau_list200.jpg
Matter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
Breeding Against Extinction: Knowledges and Practices of Species Conservation in Interwar Poland
Despite numerous episodes of captive reproduction for display and acclimatization purposes, systematic breeding for species conservation became the ce
Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth-Century South India
In India, musical instrument making has so far not been explored from the perspective of history of science and technology. From the historical docume
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall: Knowledge of Astronomy and Divination
In the middle of the fourteenth century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, expanded a city in Nanjing with the power of the who
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
This project explores the history of keeping elephants in captivity in Eastern Europe with a focus on how the trajectories of colonial trades in zoo s
Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
With the founding of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg in 1970, the Max Planck Society had cre
Starnberg.jpg