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Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol, and Benjamin Steininger in Nature Outlook on Energy and Societal Change
Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol, and Benjamin Steininger in Nature Outlook
Dec 4, 2017Between Marvel and Machine: The Automaton in the Middle Ages
This project is part of a PhD thesis that focuses on automata imagined and made during the Western Middle Ages. Based on the works of my predecessors
Chemical Desires (1850–1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity
A momentous change occurred within architecture after 1850: the chemicalization of modern building materials. This transformation emerged within nasce
Funding Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Domesticating Air—The Material History of Breathing Safely
This project, conducted with Marie-Thebaud Sorger (CNRS-Paris), seven scholars from Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin, Naples, and Santander, examines the
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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
Jürgen Renn und Jochen Büttner mit Beitrag in „Das Wissen der Antike“, einer neuen Spezialausgabe von Spektrum.
Jürgen Renn und Jochen Büttner mit Beitrag in „Das Wissen der Antike“, einer neuen Spezialausgabe von Spektrum
Dec 19, 2017 Spektrum der WissenschaftJürgen Renn and Jochen Büttner in Spektrum Special Issue, “Das Wissen der Antike.”
Jürgen Renn and Jochen Büttner contribute to “Das Wissen der Antike,” the most recent Spektrum special issue
Dec 19, 2017 Spektrum der WissenschaftHistoricizing the Applied Humanities
The term “applied humanities” first appeared in the 1950s, when cybernetics and then the postwar reform of school and university education prompted th
Personal webpage, Anke te Heesen, Chair for the History of Science
Presentation | Jan 25, 2018 | 14:00 to 15:30
Scientific Journals under Franco. Legitimated Scientific Knowledge and Its Places and Actors
MoreUncertainty of the Mind: Institutionalizing and Individualizing Psychology, early 20th-Century China
In the late nineteenth century, when Western knowledge was systematically introduced to China, the majority of disciplines were already well-defined i
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When the Qing and Republican governments installed psychology as a pedagogical part of middle school curricula and adopted it as a legitimate field in