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Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
Reaping the Benefits of Water: The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
Much of the discussion of the Qingli 慶曆 and Xifeng 熙豐 reforms in eleventh-century China has hitherto focused on their economic and intellectual dimens
Terence Kleven
Terry Kleven is a Visiting Scholar from Central College, Iowa, USA, where he teaches in the Depa...
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Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
This project examines the influence of alchemy on agricultural improvement projects in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. In my research, I d
Different Culture, Different Climate: Cultural Differences in Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Analysis on the acceptance of western climatology in China from the 1920s to 1970s indicates that although the first generation of climatologists in C
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This research focuses on cultural differences in climate knowledge and ideas. The central issue is: to what extent did the attitudes towards climate c
Aleksandar Shopov
Aleksandar Shopov is a historian with interests in economic and environmental histories of the O...
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How Fenye Entered Local Gazetteers
More than ten thousand local gazetteers have been preserved in China and most of them include special chapters on fenye (field allocation). Fenye, whi