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The Cardiovascular Origins of Early Modern Neuroscience
Scientists and physicians are not immune to the excesses of enthusiasm, and in the middle of the seventeenth century no single achievement gained more
The Invention of the Normal Child: The Developmental Norms and the Visual Technologies of Arnold Gesell’s Laboratory (1911-1948)
Developmental norms for assessing whether a child is developing "normally" have been subject to critique since their inception. While for some critics
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in FAZ on traveler, naturalist, and writer Adelbert von Chamisso
Go to Article (German)Sarah Lowengard
Sarah Lowengard is a New York City-based historian of technology and science whose research inte...
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Making Animal Materialities in Time
The work of recreating the stickiness of a gecko’s toes or mimicking a biological morphology through mineralization exemplify how materials science en
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The research carried out by the Working Group culminated in a special issue published in HSNS 53 (3) in July 2023.
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Working Group, Kjell Ericson, Particpants, Astrid Schrader
Hermeneutics of the Field: The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Agriculture
This project seeks to identify a heuristic epistemology that lies between practical knowledge and theoretical explanation in early modern European agr
Anthropocene Curriculum
The Anthropocene as a contemporary challenge demands a new form of engagement, also for the history of science. The profession cannot stop at mere his
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Since 2012 the Department has maintained a close working relationship with the HKW in its two-year “Anthropocene Project” as well as its follow-up pro
Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World
Scientific experience underlies the unquestioned methods of observation and experimentation in all sciences of the living world today. Before the earl
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
Fountain of Knowledge: How Science Turned Urine into Gold
What is the relationship between materials and value, and how have they played into scientific practice and authority? This project unravels the